Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 02/18/2016 12:12:57 PM PST by BigEdLB
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both holding large leads as the Michigan Presidential Primary grows closer, according to new polling from Mitchell and FOX 2.
The latest poll from Mitchell/FOX 2 Detroit shows Donald Trump is maintaining a sizable lead over other Republican hopefuls but Ohio Governor John Kasich is gaining some ground.
Trump`s 2:1 margin of the vote is now almost 4:1. Trump (41%) is at the top with his three closest rivals Ohio Governor John Kasich (11%), Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (11%) and Florida U.S; Senator Marco Rubio (10%) bunched in a tie for second in the latest Mitchell/FOX 2 Detroit. The poll was conducted after Monday's debate in South Carolina.
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Cruz knows he is running for delegates he can sell at the convention.
If Cruz was so deeply concerned over TPP, why did he lobby for TPA, lie for TPA, dispute Senator Sessions warnings over TPA, help get TPA to the floor for a vote, and vote for TPA. Only when his vote was not needed did he vote against it the second time it came before the Senate after passage in the House.
TPA enables TPP to very quickly be passed into law and will complete the destruction of the U.S. economy.
Texas Senator and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) "is not giving the president more authority" and that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is "not accurate" in some of his claims regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Friday's broadcast of "The Kuhner Report" on Boston's WRKO.
Cruz argued that he had been the staunchest opponent of President Barack Obama in Congress. He then separated TPA (Trade Promotion Authority) and the TPP (the Trans-Pacific Partnership). He touched on TPA first, stating that "history has demonstrated, the only way to get a trade agreement adopted is with fast-track. Since FDR, consistently, for 80 years, presidents in both parties have had fast-track. Anytime fast-track has lapsed, trade agreements don't get negotiated."
He later added that it was a "misunderstanding" to say TPA gave away the Senate's treaty power. Cruz stated that "Under the Constitution, there are two ways to make binding law. Number one, you can pass a treaty ratified by 2/3rds of the Senate. Or number two, you can pass legislation passed by a majority of both of houses of Congress and signed by the president. ... TPA uses the second constitutional path."
And "it's been long recognized that the Constitution's Origination Clause applies to trade bills, which means the House of Representatives has to be involved. There's a reason why trade bills have historically not been done as treaties, because the Constitution says that anything concerning the raising of revenues, and trade bills concern tariffs, which are the raising of revenues, has to originate in the House of Representatives. So, the process of approving a trade agreement through both houses of Congress has been the way it has been done for roughly a century. And it is not giving the president more authority."
Regarding TPP, Cruz said he was undecided because there was no "actual agreement" regarding TPP.
He later blasted classification of the text of TPP as "idiotic." He continued that claims made by Senator Jeff Sessions were "not accurate"... this trade agreement, now, at least the current draft... does not impact, change, alter, or effect US immigration law. There is a brief section in the TPP that concerns issues of immigration, but explicitly, the United States doesn't join that section."
He further pointed to his amendment to prevent trade agreements from impacting immigration that the House agreed to include. Cruz continued, "Beyond that, the notion of giving up sovereignty and an international body that can alter US law, Jeff, I have spent 20 years fighting to defend United States sovereignty. There is no one in the Senate who has been a stronger opponent of international bodies taking away our authority. ... And it is simply false that the TPP trade agreement gives up our sovereignty. There is nothing in TPA or TPP that can give a foreign body the ability to make binding law in the United States of America under our Constitution." Although, he stated that it was natural and understandable people would be suspicious of a secret agreement.
He added that "if this president tried to slip something in, it would have to be approved by Congress, and by the way, under the terms of fast-track, TPA, any trade agreement, including the TPP, must be public at least 60 days, the text of it, before it's voted on."
Later, Cruz conceded that while he hasn't "studied" TPP "the way one would for weeks and weeks on end, the way one would during the 60 days when it is public. In a six, seven-hundred page agreement can there be things buried in a footnote that one doesn't see? Sure," Sessions' claims that TPP would undermine US law are "not accurate."
He concluded that the Obama administration would like people to blame job losses on free trade, but that free trade is not to blame for job losses.
(h/t The Right Scoop)
And switch to FAIR trade! The so called free trade is humbug. China is schlonging the US on foreign trade, along with Japan & Mexico. Only idiots can live with Trillion dollar foreign trade deficits year after year after year.
“The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed Trade Promotion Authority (TPA, better known as Fast Track) giving President Obama what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) admitted is “an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president.”
Remember when Rubio kept repeating during the New Hampshire debate how what Obama was doing was being done to intentionally harm the United States?
Well, Cruz and Rubio have competed with each other in helping Obama pass those things that are intentionally harming the United States.
Rush Limbaugh!
I have not listened to his recent shows so I missed that.
When did he endorse Cruz??
I haven’t seen that before now.
You wouldn’t be telling a lie now (like Cruz), would you!
Ted Cruz, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin
have not created many jobs in the main street economy of America. They are as clueless as career politicians on how to create real jobs in the private sector.
Yesterday, Limbaugh heartily endorsed Thomas Sowell’s endorsement of Cruz.
Limbaugh works overtime in trying to endorse Cruz without officially endorsing Cruz.
He was noticeably a bit quieter today. He has been, still is, plugging Rubio, the amnesty pimp. Says Rubio is a conservative disciple of Reagan.
He hasn't officially endorsed anyone yet, but he obviously favors Cruz strongly over Trump. He spends nearly half the show talking about Trump's dirty tricks and deceptions, while saying nothing but good things about Cruz.
Thanks for the info. I have dropped off listening to him cause I am not a big football fan, don’t drink tea, and don’t read children’s books. If he is a Cruz fan, guess that leaves nothing to tune in for.
To me, that’s ridiculous. But of course it’s your choice to make.
Apparently I missed the primary. LOL
Michigan is far from a liberal state.
WooHOO! Trump Go!
Thanks again for the ping.
Cruz or lose Tedaban, what say you?
Anyone that would align himself with Robert Mercer and Jeff Roe cannot be as good a person as he wants people to think he is.
Video — Ted Cruz Dirty Tricks Explained With Evidence…
Someday you may wake up and smell the coffee.
Come on over to Michigan and say that, chump.
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