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> “He would not admit to being misled by McConnell on the first, if there wasn’t something wrong with it.”

Are you speaking for Senator Cruz now?

How can the first TPA be bad if expiration of the EX-IM Bank was assured and was in the Bill that was sent to the House?

Now that the TPA has come back to the Senate from the House where the democrats in the House amended the bill to renew the EX-IM Bank, Senator Cruz voted NO.

What is wrong with your comprehension here? Don’t you know from all these threads on this subject that Boehner allowed the democrats to amend the Bill to allow such things as renewal of EX-IM? And many other things as well.

What kind of narrative are you trying to build?

I see clearly that TPA went out from the Senate to the House as a good bill which did no harm and it came back as a different bill with harmful provisions.

What do you see differently?

Are you saying Cruz or anyone should have looked into a crystal ball to see that the House Bill would be amended by liberals and that conservative amendments would be blocked?

I’ll put it into a simple example.

Say I’m in Houston, TX. I go to a Walmart that I am told is a normal Walmart by a colleague. I enter the parking lot and see the Walmart building with normal logos. I enter the store and everything looks normal.

I give a Walmart cashier a 10 dollar bill for payment of an item I want to purchase. The cashier gives me change in Brazilian Real.

Was I supposed to be able and predict the cashier would do that?

Where do you get off trying to hang everything you can around Ted Cruz’ neck?

I’ve asked repeatedly of a handful of anti-Cruz trolls who are constantly all over these threads with the same attacks why they don’t hang Senator Sessions for his vote on the SECRET Iran deal. And not one of them can answer except to divert to another subject or to launch a personal attack.

But if Senator Cruz so much as mentions a kind word about Free Trade as in making an agreement for American producers to sell their goods overseas, you try and bring the house down on him!

Senator Cruz voted YES for a good bill and then voted NO when the Bill was returned as a bad bill. What is so sinister about that?

And if Senator Cruz is such a fraud for voting on the original TPA (which was quite good), then why is Senator Sessions not a fraud for voting for the SECRET Iran deal?

You see where this leads? It leads to insanity. Your whole ‘schtick’ is to hang Ted Cruz in any way you can while ignoring the votes of other fine conservatives.

Mike Lee did not vote NO on the latest incarnation of TPA. Does that make him a fraud as well?

Yes, you are engaged in insanity trying to bring a good man down through false misleading threads and comments.

It won’t work. Ted Cruz has been talking to the grassroots everywhere he goes where he asked about these troubling trade issues and he succeeds in gathering wide fervent support in spite of a handful of trolls that are trying to stir up a sinister narrative.

The fact is that Cruz should never have voted for the 1st TPA since it gave Obama power.

That is what you guys refuse to admit.

In his initial vote in favor of TPA, the senator intimates that he was misled by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), who, when pressed on the matter, testily represented to him that there were no side-deals on Ex-Im. Cruz opposes reauthorization of the bank, which is scheduled to expire at the end of this month. He describes Ex-Im as “a classic example of corporate welfare” and cronyism at its worst” — a position Veronique de Rugy has repeatedly and (in my view) compellingly argued here on the Corner. (See archive, here.)

I'm not speaking for anyone. This portion of the article above has Cruz being the one suggesting he was misled.