[ConservativeMind]

“No—the whole point of TPP is to grease the skids so that a vote for TPP (and TiSA and T-TiP) is all but inevitable.”

You just did it, again. Don't you see that?? The TPP doesn't grease the skids for the TPP. You again appear to mean the first "TPP" to be "TPA."

[Diogenesis]

Forget the letters.

The ISSUE is that the Congress pushes SECRECY
... from Americans. The other parties know what
is in it .... but not Americans.

Can you guess why? I know you can.

[9YearLurker]

Sorry, typo—I obviously meant TPA in the first use. Context makes that clear.

But the point is that the one only exists to get the others passed. Voting for the one is voting to make the others pretty much inevitable.

And yes, I’m disgusted by the deflection, subterfuge and obfuscation by which Cruz has been trying to convince people that his vote for one isn’t, effectively, a vote for the other.

[CCGuy]

OK correction for him. TPA greases the skids for TPP.

I guess some folks want to engage in word games and not substance that Cruz betrayed us.