Posted on 06/12/2015 5:05:09 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
This leaves out an incredibly important point: TPA prevents a Senate filibuster and mandates a simple majority yes/no vote.
In this way it’s similiar to the budget reconciliation process used to ram through Obamacare after the Dems lost their Senate supermajority when Scott Brown won Teddy Kennedy’s seat.
Cruz certainly knows this. Knows how much easier it’ll be to ram through TPP under these rules. Knows that jerks like McCain and Graham will vote for it.
I don’t know what he’s doing here - if he were smart (and he IS) he’d be advocating for a revised TPA that preserves the filibuster.
Key point is that TPP is a done deal if TPA passes. They’ve been negotiating it for 6 years. This rush to pass it now is 100% beltway whoring for K Street money. Disgusting.
> Contrary to what the political hacks think, we’re not stupid.
At lot of us don’t have the background to understand what “the real issues” are and we need it in laymen’s terms. I am stupid when it comes to his issue. I admit it so please enlighten so we understand what wasn’t addressed in the PR...
Technically, yes. Can’t change existing US law, supposedly.
It does not, however, keep Obama from tacking on stupid liberal tricks like banning ammunition or weapons importation from other countries or any other stupid liberal quirky taints. Why? because he pretty much has that power anyway, but he has to do that on his own executive accord and take the heat for it. Additionally, these actions can be undone by the next President.
Via a TPA sanctioned trade pact, and it becomes law and cannot be undone - and the Congress takes the heat for it.
ObamaTrade? It’s just another way to spell T-U-R-D.
I don’t know what he’s doing here - if he were smart (and he IS) he’d be advocating for a revised TPA that preserves the filibuster.
What Cruz is doing is running for POTUS. Obviously the big donors have told him TPP is the price of their support. Cruz doesn’t want his fingerprints on it so he supports TPA which lowers the vote required to 50 for passage.
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We don’t need any more trade agreements. I have yet to see any benefit for the American economy or the American worker from the trade agreements enacted over the past 30 years. Instead we have:
1) 55,000 closed manufacturing plants
2) Loss of millions of manufacturing and manufacturing support jobs.
3) Higher trade deficits - Where is the promised export boom?
4) Declining standard of living for the average American for the first time in our nation’s history.
5) Decimation of the middle class
6) Less tariff revenue for the treasury
7) The industrialization and rise of China as an economic an military threat to the sovereignty of the United States
Can someone provide quantitative proof of the economic and social benefits from these trade deals? TPP is supposed to be modeled on the EU. How’s that working out for the Europeans other than Germany?
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Yes. My thoughts also. He’s attracted some big business PACs and donors and this is the price of support.
Of all the candidates, I like him the best and would vote for him, but it does not mean at the same time I will not fight him on this TPA/TPP thing. It’s WRONG, period. But if it is inevitable, I want to wait until there is an American in the White House before it is approved over my objections.
It sounds as though this is a brick in the wall for bringing about the NWO...
Agreed, I’ve been split between Cruz and Walker. Still am, but up until now Cruz was starting to make headway because of Walkers stupid fumbles and the growing differentiation between them.
This might be a reset for me on their ideological component. And if all other things end up equal by the time my primary rolls around next year, Walker ultimately has the plus of having beaten the crap out of the unions up in Wisconsin.
And ALL Cruz has to do here for me is refuse to support TPA if it doesn’t reinsert the Senate filibuster. I’m fine with the rest of the provisions.
It’s no use Ted...we all know you’re a commie.
Bttt
Those concerns should be enough reason to stop this thing. Why should the American people have to be terrififed of their government?
This is not a once-in-a-lifetime shot, put it on a back burner until the people can accept it. I hate the false urgency this Congress attaches to every damn piece of legislation that comes down the pike. It's only because they know it's crap and, like Obamacare, if they don't hurry and shove it down our throats, it may not fly.
It isn’t just Cruz. All of the Congressional incumbent candidates are doing it as well as the other candidates - except for Paul (whom I wouldn’t vote for).
They are very thankful that this secret TPP is closed until the TPA is passed. Because their support translates into big business CoC money. It is disgusting and very disappointing.
“We don’t need any more trade agreements. I have yet to see any benefit for the American economy or the American worker from the trade agreements enacted over the past 30 years. Instead we have:”
I would add this: The inability of the lower, uneducated classes to move out of poverty because the stepping stones to a middle class income have been destroyed by exporting manufacturing jobs.
The government has created a permanent welfare class unable to move out of it. A college education isn’t the answer for the majority who would thrive in a manufacturing era, but fail in an academic one.
I guess if this gets passed we’ll start hearing about a new one world currency. Islam via ISIS is already working on the one world religion aspect.
Jobs in this country have been destroyed by an entitlement system and tax code that is completely out of control.
“Jobs in this country have been destroyed by an entitlement system and tax code that is completely out of control.”
On purpose.
I’m guessing maybe that, but then again it might turn out that the standard unit of currency could be a single 22LR cartridge. Bigger denominations would be larger calibers.
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