TPA by itself is not a ‘mistake’.
It was in force for decades before its renewal was killed by Harry Reid who didn’t want GW Bush to have use of it.
The version that rocketed out of the House last week is a changed TPA bill because Boehner allowed liberals to attach amendments and denied conservatives from doing so. So Ted changed his YES for the good version to NO for the bad version.
Ted wants to maintain and create millions of secure high-paying jobs using TPA to allow American exports such as Crude Oil and LNG, Beef, Agriculture and Manufacturing and Services. TPA allows him to do that when he’s President.
A President needs TPA to open up foreign markets to US exports. There are nations around the globe begging on hands and knees for LNG, for example. The Europeans want it yesterday because they have to go crawling to Putin and his mafia ring of goons to get an energy deal. The USA has what they need but Obama won’t let it be negotiated.
Foreign nations will not negotiate with 535 arguing members of Congress because the changes never end. It is an exercise in massive amounts of frustration. They won’t do it period. So TPA authorizes the President to be the go-to guy on international trade which is both logical and practical. And that doesn’t mean that the President gets to do whatever he wants. The Congress still gets an up or down vote.
TPA is not the problem. Obama/Boehner are the problem.
But now the TPA bill has been changed by liberals. That’s why Ted Cruz changed his vote.
Yes, the problem with TPA is Obama, that is why Cruz should have been against it from the START.