Ted Cruz has a record. I have watched him for the past few years from the days he was running for the Senate. When he says he will do something, like (fight to stop Obamacare), I take notice. He doesn’t do things because they’re popular, he does them because he believes they’re the right thing to do, and he always goes right to the people to explain the actions he takes because he knows they expect accountability. Nowhere clearer was that on display than the TPA vote, first supporting it, and then choosing to oppose it after it became a corrupt bargain. Both times he provided his reasons and was not afraid to take questions on the subject. This led me to understand why he took the actions he did and I was satisfied. Ted Cruz’s actions whether you agree with him or not, he has earned trust.”
You may be satisfied with his explanation. I am not. His reasons don’t make sense to me. If Cruz didn’t realize a trade deal that is written in secret, that you had to go into a special room just to read it, and you were not allowed to take notes, was a bad deal, then he is not the right man to be President and negotiate deals that will be good for America.
And if you can’t understand that that wasn’t the bill they were voting on in the Senate, then it’s pointless to argue with someone that doesn’t have their facts straight.
The “secret” room trade deal you’re talking about is TPP. There was not 1 single vote on TPP and Cruz never took a final position on it because it never came up for a vote.
The vote Cruz had was on TPA, the A standing for Authority. TPA was a process for a President to fast-track a deal by requiring simple majorities in the House and Senate rather than 2/3 in the Senate alone to get passage. Cruz’s reasoning being that history has shown trade deals don’t get done without TPA and that the scope would normally fall within the House of Representatives commerce role where they should also have a say. When the corrupt bargains the Boehner/McConnell are not not included and the TPA is clean, it is good legislation and that’s why Cruz voted for it the first time.
But the truth is this doesn’t jive with your protectionist/isolationist policies, so you try to confuse people by saying TPA and TPP are interchangeable when they are not.