Posted on 06/12/2015 6:28:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz was on with Jeff Kuhner this morning and answered some tough questions about why he supports the TPA/TPP agreements. One of the questions was specifically about what Jeff Sessions has been saying about the trade deal and Cruz blatantly said that what Sessions has been saying is not accurate. In short, he said that the US is not ceding any sovereignty to any transnational commission, that it has no power to bind the US with any law or agreement.
The interview is 24 minutes long and I urge you to listen to the whole thing. But if you want to skip ahead to the Q&A about Jeff Sessions take on this, it begins around 16:10.
Listen:
(AUDIO-AT-LINK)
UPDATE: Also read here where Ted explains more thoroughly his position and answers questions like why TPP is not a ‘living document’.
If I remember correctly, last time that there was compensation and worker retraining, the money went into the cities and disappeared. Was anyone retrained? Why just the cities, since blue collar workers are in rural areas, too. Redistribution, indeed. I don’t know anyone who benefited from “retraining money.”
Several different bills are coming up-all about trade. All secret. We must defeat each one just for the secrecy alone. Enough is enough!
Then why can’t the US label the origin of meat?
Exactly. This deal hamstrings Congress from making changes to or repealing prior legislation—that is indeed dictating law to Congress.
Exactly. With every single trade deal, Americans lost their jobs and the trade deficits went from positive to negative. Only the top benefited from it. Only Wall Street benefited from it.
It’s time for the American workers to be number 1.
We now have to try to survide on low wages and part time employment. I shudder to think what TPP and TPA will do to us.
Yep, at best TPA should only be granted to a treaty after it has already been released for review.
It should not be granted for additional treaties or a treaty that hasn’t been carefully and publicly vetted to assure it is not a giveaway on sovereignty.
Too bad Ted didn’t decide to take this stance rather than vote for the grease for slipping all kinds of nasty deals by congress.
i will be sure to be offended every time you post. You could have made your point without ridicule. In fact, you lost your point by being contemptuous. Talk about a little girl throwing a hissy fit.
I oppose this just like I oppose absolutely everything Obama touches. nothing good can come of his involvement, no matter how seemingly worthwhile.
Cruz missed the most salient issue. Obama is not to be trusted, anytime, anywhere with anything.
One more thing, depending on the Democrats to carry our water - as in being part of a simple majority to defeat TPP - is a fool’s errand. The worse it is the better Dems like it.
This is war, not a parlor game.
I just did. If you haven't you should.
It goes a long way in explaining why he voted, and where his disagreement with Sessions is. I've appreciated both of these senators, have trusted them more than any other for a long time. They disagree, they're both smart, and both wanting the best for the US, both wanting to apply conservative principles in doing so. They disagree here.
I'm going to cut him some slack and let the dust settle a bit. Throwing him under the bus without letting him defend what he did is far from the right course.
Cruz missed the most salient issue. Obama is not to be trusted, anytime, anywhere with anything
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Thanks for ‘reminding’ my why I said FUBO about anything.
He is volumes ‘worse’ than Lucy and the fabled football. BO will surely yank the rug out from under his ‘new found friends’.
The old tale about the scorpion and frog or whatever latches onto the scorpions back comes to mind, except I ‘trust’ the scorpion more than BO.....
I am NOT a racist, I find absolutley nothing wrong (well, I fib a tad here) with BO’s Black Half, it is his White Half I despise and that is because of his idiotic policies.
I have to admit that I am enjoying this. I knew he was not the person he tries to be. He is a disaster and I knew it. I have good judgment for the most part. Of course I still think Governor Walker is the guy to win and fix our country because although he is running his mouth, he is not voting on this monstrosity.
He was. Like I said he is against it on two primary reasons.
(1) Secrecy of TPP (which Cruz also opposes)
(2) TPA giving Obama more authority (debatable), but even Levin has said he would reconsider a proposed TPA in 19 months after Obama leaves office depending on who succeeds him. The issue Ted Cruz said in waiting that long is that the Democrats will vote lock-step to prevent any TPA authority to a Republican President, and as we witnessed the libs yesterday, they wouldn’t even vote to give it to their Marxist leader, so Cruz is right on that account too when he says this was the best time to pass TPA.
Levin also interviewed and gave praise to Sessions on his opposition to the Bill. But Levin also pointed out that based on his previous voting record “Sessions is a bit too much of a protectionist for him” and that ideology might have driven some of Sessions comments about TPP, although it didn’t negate the fact that he had voted the way Levin agreed with. Levin further clarified this alternative reasoning by pointing out that the Union thugs happened to be on the right side of the issue but for the wrong reasons and their opposition, fuled by Union bosses and isolation/protectionism had nothing to do with his opposition which was based on the secrecy and the supposed surrender of powers to an Imperial President, as well as some crony-connections of some retired Senators (Daschle/Lott) that were driving this “trade” agreement while personally pocketing millions.
Most of that was in his opening monologue in the Podcast on 6/10 and 6/11. I got home early yesterday so I haven’t had a chance to catch up on the 6/12 show yet.
You obviously didn’t watch the Cruz video.
There’s two ways of making law. TPA utilizes the second approach of having to pass both Houses of Congress / President sign to become law. Somehow this has method has been deemed a “rubber stamp” compared to the 2/3 requirement in just the Senate.
How is TPA going to help Obama get around the leftist Democrats in the House (and Senate) beholden to their Union bosses? He couldn’t even get them to just vote to give him the TPA authority to begin with. If the Union bosses don’t like TPP, it’s not getting their votes. And if in the 60 days there’s a bunch of crap pointed out that looks like garbage (climate change, immigration, etc) there’s enough conservative members in the House that would join them (all be it on different reasons) to kill the bill and send Bozo back to the drawing board.
As Cruz also pointed out, when trade bills involve tarrifs and other commerce-clause related items, it makes logical sense that the House should have a say in the matter. To me it looks like the House (not Obozo) is getting the “additional” power which really isn’t additional because they have a Constitutional right to address issues of commerce.
I have a feeling Ted will be steering clear of Mark Levin for the immediate future. :-)
Thank you, sharky. I will listen to it.
I have no intention of throwing Cruz under the bus, particularly when all the candidates generally supported this trade bill. In that circumstance Cruz would still be the one to vote for among them all.
I do know that I totally disagree with any and all defense of this particular Trade bill, while under this president.
Counting on the future advantage to a future president is too much risk, imho, to leave this president with a year and a half to rearrange this trade agreement.
I also take no comfort in the power allotted to Congress that is claimed to be in it. Under Obama, any major bills being passed places us in danger.
But, I will listen to Ted later today, and very much appreciate the tip. Thanks, Rita
This reminds me of FL in the 2012 primary where Newt went after Romney instead of continuing to run against 0bama.
Cruz and Sessions are both on the same team and whatever this disagreement is, it is not about principle and it is not crucial. With or without Cruz, Boehner and McConnell have the votes on the trade bill with their 'bi-partisan' cabal. It was Pelosi who shut this down on Friday. Neither Cruz or Sessions should publicly say the other is WRONG. It is silly, counterproductive and only hurts the larger cause. The democrats love to see headlines like this.
Cruz and Sessions need to meet privately and come to a resolution regarding their perspectives and any future public statements on this trade bill and stop this public fight.
There is no reason to throw Ted Cruz under any bus over this. We need either Cruz or Walker to win the WH in 2016 or it is all over.
It makes me cringe too, but it’s early. I’ll say this, I’ve heard Sessions theories on jobs and economics....let’s just say that it would be kind to say that it is elementary. Now I heard him speak on illegal immigration, and while I agree with what he would like to do, his idea of what it would do to jobs was just fanciful and fabulist.
Cruz has a much more sophisticated, in the good sense, idea of jobs and economics.
Well see how Governor Walker votes. Ha! He won’t.....he can say all he won’t but he won’t be voting as a traitor like the Senators.
And you put Senator Cruz under the bus for the exact same thing?
I bet that too
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