Sen. Ted Cruz has begged President Donald Trump to stop listening to the tariff hawks in his administration and “take the deal” countries are offering to lower trade barriers.
Sen. Ted Cruz has begged President Donald Trump to stop listening to the tariff hawks in his administration and “take the deal” countries are offering to lower trade barriers.
Isn’t this dude a Senator? He can help end the stupid tariff war any time he wants. If he can grow a spine and bring 4 friends with him he can at least put pressure on his pals on the house of representatives.
Ted Cruz famously has no friends.
Infamously, he’s the Zodiac killer
His dad killed JFK. It’s a whole family thing for the man who refuses to call people by the name they’ve chosen.
And no spine
Ted Cruz has all of the calcified appendages which are correct for a normal human Senator.
“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”
Yeah 2/3 of congress can end the whole trade war. This is just showmanship.
You don’t even need that much. At least at this stage, Trump is abusing existing laws as a sledgehammer against the economy. While Trump can veto new laws passed by “just” 50% of the Congress, they would at least have some leverage to pressure him.
“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you"
~ Lindsey Graham
Might also be worth noting that his wife is a managing director at Goldman Sachs. I have to imagine she’s spent the last week in meltdown mode.
“I probably like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz."
-Al Franken
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/31/politics/al-franken-ted-cruz/index.html
It is so he can look like he was putting up a fight.
Yeah, he’s probably seeing that his constituent supporters are starting to feel the negative effects. He’s just putting on a show.
Bruh…
If we’re waiting for Raphael Cruz to grow a spine we’ll never stop waiting.
There’s a reason the title includes “begs” and I’m honestly surprised he’s doing that.
Does Cuck Cruz even know what a spine is?
The Senate has already passed a bill that limits the President’s power to set tariff rates on Canada. The House probably won’t take that up.
Right now, there’s also a Senate Bill with 7 GOP senators signed on that would limit the President’s power to unilaterally set tariffs (requires 48 hours notice to Congress, can’t last more than 60 days without Congressional approval, gives Congress fast track procedures for voting down new tariffs). There are some serious constitutional flaws in it (most notably the legislative non-aggrandizement doctrine, but also an issue with tying to sidestep the bicameralism and presentment requirement), though, and I’m not sure it would hit the point where it could overcome a presidential veto.
So right now it’s not clear whether this GOP opposition would actually build into real legislation that could actually have an effect, or whether this is all showmanship trying to influence Trump himself to roll this back.
But he won’t. Because he’s a morally defunct crumpet.
How dare you impune crumpets by comparison.
Oh, fuck, we have invoked the wrath of Lemmy’s infamous crumpet stans.
You crumped around. Now it’s time to find out.
In my defense, I really love watching these dumbasses trying to figure out what the heck a crumpet is, and then getting angry because they don’t know and just assume it’s something awful.
I can pretend, if that helps move things along:
“IT’S THE EXACT SAME THING AS AN ENGLISH MUFFIN!”
The trap is baited. Now, we wait.
Oh so like a regular Muffin with currant and baked beans?
Yes, that is exactly and unequivocally correct.
derisive snort
Everybody knows, it’s his daughters that call the shots.
What? And lose the votes of the old guys who drive RVs covered in MAGA signs?
At some point he is going to have to pick between them and his main sources of income.