Posted on 06/12/2015 5:05:09 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
Covered on Hugh Hewitt along with what needs to be done with ISIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxxY7xvw2E
Observe:
> Through TPA, Congress sets out up-front objectives for the Executive branch to achieve in free trade negotiations; in exchange for following those objectives, Congress agrees to hold an up-or-down vote on trade agreements without amendments.
> TPA mandates transparency by requiring all trade agreements (including TPP) to be made public for at least 60 days before the Congress can act on them.
I am for Cruz. But his support of this is WRONG in my opinion. This article relates some facts, but it does not tell the whole story about the constraints the TPA puts on future pacts. Nor does it explain why the TPP is now a secret pact that cannot be viewed by the public unless the TPA is passed.
That is horse manure, pure and simple. Nothing better than Pelosi’s “we have to pass ObamaCare before we can read ObamaCare.”
Cruz, Walker, and Rubio support for this is WRONG and there is no vital urgency in giving our tyrant of a President to further infringe our rights.
> Nothing in the agreement forces Congress to change any law. TPA explicitly provides that nothing in any trade agreement can change U.S. law.
The World Trade Organization rejected a U.S. appeal last month, ruling the labels that say where animals were born, raised and slaughtered are discriminatory against the two U.S. border countries. - http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3299168/posts
These agreements just nullify our laws.
He’s also opposing an extension of the ExIm bank.
“Congress is the only entity that can make U.S. law ...”
Really? What has been happening with the White House for the past six years.
Are you all MIA and just now been found?
Link to the somewhat confusing text of the actual TPA:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1314/text
Voting aye on TPA puts TPP on the fast track to virtually certain approval.
And I think almost everyone who pays any attention understands this.
Contrary to what the political hacks think, we’re not stupid.
For later
Sorry Ted, no trade deal has ever been amended or rejected once a TPA has been passed. The track record speaks. Keep it up and you are done too. Walker capped it for me yesterday, he’s done.
So Cruz is just doubling down with Obamaesque half truths?
No treaty has ever been rejected in the history of the US after fast track as been passed. Living agreement? No mention. China membership w/o Congressional approval? No mention, etc.
If Cruz will do this to be elected he will do it to be reelected. He’s no Reagan, that’s for sure. Cruz is now totally exposed and doubling down on the beltway BS. Huge disappointment. Signed, former big Cruz fan.
Cruz read the TPP and found nothing wrong with it as a whole. He said that, be also said that if he missed something it would affect his decision.
Yes, yes, yes. Yada, yada, yes.
This story blames the press, saying “Many of those concerns are fueled by the press.”
Sorry, but blowing these concerns off with words and phrases like, “long established” and “upheld by the Supreme Court...” is not all that comforting.
We have a Court now hanging on a thread (as Roberts proved) and reams of actions full of unchecked presidential over reach and end runs around a lazy Congress who admires it’s purse but won’t even pretend to cut it’s purse strings.
All this to say, that when Jeff Sessions of Alabama sets his hair on fire over something then that is an event that fuels my concern.
Sell Jeff Sessions, and I am sold. Meanwhile, this dog of an agreement needs to slow down, not speed up, until those voting on it are not so critically conflicted about what the hell they are voting for and themselves better understand the meaning of the vote.
The Hill is only one example of quotes full confusion among the members of the House and the Senate.
This post was much needed by many of us here at FR because we were confused as to what TPA really was and why Cruz voted for it. Thanks OP
Cruz is treating thinking conservatives like children. Like we can’t gather our own facts. Hugely insulting and obamaesque.
What is crystal clear is that
if Ted-(Let’s Empower-Obama)-Cruz
votes for this, then he is TOAST, revealed
as just another fast talking BS-artiste.
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