Maybe you can answer the question I have been asking for about six months. It gets tedious, even for me.
Why did Cruz vote for TPA, after helping Ryan, that consistent conservative, roll it out and get it established? Why did Cruz vote for the Corker amendment and then proceed to campaign against it?
Both votes advanced the Obama agenda.
My thinking is that Cruz was signaling donors that he can play ball, and I think it paid off for him. I noticed Mark Levin, when I use to listen to him, carefully avoided mentioning these two votes; likewise Rush.
My understanding is that TPP was secret but was initially presented as free trade, which Cruz supports, so he supported TPP. As more details about it came to light, he realized it was not actually free trade, so he changed his support for the measure.