Cruz opposes the secrecy of TPP and wants that to be fully public when it’s voted on sometime in the future.
More dissembling. How about the conditions TPA places on this now public TPP. 1) Can’t amend it, 2) pass it in the Senate takes 51 votes, vote it down takes 60 votes.
Also, the President is ‘bound’ to negotiate the agreement with Congress......exactly when did he ever negotiate anything with a Congress, a Congress controlled by both sides. It just ain’t gonna happen.
I’ve laid out my concerns here and in prior posts pretty succinctly. This whole mess stinks to high heaven. The fact that Cruz supports this coupled with my history of support for him makes me feel pretty uneasy about his candidacy. This debacle is bad for this country right now. We are not in such a dire situation that this concoction of appeasement has to be passed while this tyrant is President. All of this can wait.
Lastly, even though I am Cruz supporter, I refuse to carry the water for a bad decision because some big business donors see TPA/TPP as a way to keep their profits up.
Correction. Cruz understands that trade agreements are historically developed in secret and kept secret, so he can’t intelligently say he opposes secrecy per se, but probably opposes the actual parts of the whole that are kept secret.
The only charitable excuse I can come up with, to offer our candidates, is that they are on the road too much to know wth this trade authority and the subsequent trade agreement actually means.
If Jeff Sessions is on to something, our candidates need to pay heed and rethink this dog.