Because if there was no subsidy, how could the politicians control it?
Posted on 01/28/2015 4:01:22 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
The people who run the Republican party want two things heading into the 2016 election. They want the new, unified Republican Congress to “show the party can govern,” avoiding the shutdowns and debt default threats and vote-counting calamities on the House floor, while perhaps even working with the president to pass a significant achievement like corporate tax reform.
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If King were from Kansas, his nuttery could be avoidable and isolated. He would be a Tim Huelskamp, a highway tourist trap that’s not worth the lost driving time.
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And before the State of the Union, he introduced the word “deportable,” as a noun, to the lexicon — another heartfelt way of referring to a human, someone’s child or parent or grandparent, who faces the daily threat of being ripped away and sent to another country.
(SNIP) Chris Christie, the New Jersey establishmentarian who’s never much ascribed to the doctrine of the immigrant-bashing wing, was there touting King as the perhaps the finest public servant in the history of Western civilization.
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That bill will now either be filibustered in the Senate or vetoed by the White House. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell will then be in the familiar situation of having to convince conservatives to support something that the president will sign.
Steve King and his allies will call on the Boehner and McConnell not to relent and show some “spine” or whatever.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/28/bridgegate-guv-aligns-with-iowa-troll.html
Back in the Capitol, King smiled when asked about his friend Chris.
“Chris Christie is a man of real character,” he said.
Overhearing King’s words as he passed down the other side of the hallway, Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold quipped, “The man is a character!”
King laughed.
Iowa loves them some Ethanol.
Lets ban it and see how big of corn mountain they can build.
We don’t have to ban ethanol. Just stop giving stupid subsidies.
Fixed it.
I have no problem with ethanol. I want to have a choice on when to buy it (car, not boat) and if it’s all that wonderful, why the subsidy ?
Because if there was no subsidy, how could the politicians control it?
Because if there was no subsidy...it would fall on its @$$.
I thought it was:
Sarah Palin
Michelle Bachman
Ted Cruz
Ronald Reagan
On and on...
It buys farm votes and agribusiness donations.
You’re right...
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