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FULL TITLE: Obama twisting Senate Dem arms for TPA test vote today as Cruz switches to No; Update: TPA passes, 60-37
1 posted on 06/23/2015 10:15:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A$$HOLE Rubio voted YES! Soft Handed PU$$Y POS!


2 posted on 06/23/2015 10:16:51 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am glad to see Cruz switch to no. He was hurting himself in the Presidential primary. I was willing to give him some slack on this, but many were not.


3 posted on 06/23/2015 10:17:20 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How nice another Sellout of America. These so called Free trade agreements are Crap.

How about we disengage from the G7, The WTO, The UN, and NAFTA, we would be better off.


4 posted on 06/23/2015 10:18:58 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Toast’ed Cruz KNEW this would pass and
tried to hide his previous support of Obama,
ObamaTRADE, SECRECY and antiConstitutional corruption.

So he and his wife still get the bonus from Goldmann Sachs.


6 posted on 06/23/2015 10:21:15 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I haven’t yet read enough to comment on this news, but will anyway.

Some of us expected this. Frankly, the so-called “test vote” was taken initially when too many voted for the first “test”. But, I suppose tolerating an idea of a thing is different than, in the end, actually voting for the dang thing, although Cruz did first vote to tolerate the idea of a second vote.

The initial vote lent a heck of a big assist to this Obama empowerment effort, and now at last it seems enough throats have been slashed and arms twisted that this test vote moves all things along. Of course, I am grateful that Cruz in the damn clinch voted “right”.

I don’t know what to think, actually. It seemed so clear to me how, initially, in the very first vote, to vote. How do they do it, Vetsy, play around with these things, and sleep at night?


9 posted on 06/23/2015 10:28:47 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubio sold us out and Cruz switched to no because he knew it would pass. This way he can say “Look! I voted no!”

What a bunch of crap.


10 posted on 06/23/2015 10:29:05 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just another performance of the DC Kabuki Theater


14 posted on 06/23/2015 10:40:30 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Republicans who voted against advancing the fast-track bill were:

• Susan Collins, Maine

• Ted Cruz, Texas

• Rand Paul, Kentucky

• Jeff Sessions, Alabama

• Richard Shelby, Alabama

Those were the same senators who voted against the measure in late May, with the exception of Cruz, who announced his reversal Tuesday morning. (Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was also a “no” vote in May, but he did not vote Tuesday.)


16 posted on 06/23/2015 10:40:58 AM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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I find all this procedural stuff confusing, but if I understand correctly, Cruz was for it before he was against it?


17 posted on 06/23/2015 10:43:37 AM PDT by pluvmantelo (My hope for America died 11-06-12.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I see the good little GOPe senator from Texas, John Cornyn, voted along side McConnell.

I'm glad Cruz switched, I'd been pissed to see him vote for TPA and then against TPP & others.

19 posted on 06/23/2015 10:51:27 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Hillary: Ethically Sleazy & Politically Stupid)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did Ted Cruz or his campaign give a reason why he decided not to vote for TPA ?

Would a good guess be that it didn’t has the language in the bill that he wanted to reign in the out of control power of Obama ?

What sort of launguge in the bill or amendment that Sen. Jess Sessions was trying to get Sen. Ted Cruz to work in that bill.

Perhaps Sen. Jeff Sessions had a last minute talk with Ted Cruz’s.

If that is the case it shows he is willing to listen to councling.


30 posted on 06/23/2015 11:25:04 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik Project : build it already Congress)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So which Ted Cruz are you supporting 2DV?

The Ted Cruz who voted for TPA or the Ted Cruz who voted against TPA?


32 posted on 06/23/2015 11:26:07 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; ...
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46 posted on 06/23/2015 1:16:03 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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