Posted on 03/26/2015 12:06:43 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
If the presidential election process didnt begin in Iowa, ethanol would likely be a memory. For example, the Wall Street Journal reports that former Governor Rick Perry once unsuccessfully sought a federal waiver from the mandate to include ethanol in gasoline, claiming it had a negative economic impact.
But because the election process begins in Iowa, where nearly half of the corn grown is converted to ethanol, most Republican candidates, who make a career of denouncing government mandates and crony capitalism, have come to embrace the ethanol mandateeven as they decry the Obamacare mandate forcing Americans to have health insurance and the billions of taxpayer dollars being transferred to private companies.
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Who has benefited from this decades-long support of ethanol? Not the public. Consumers dont really care; they just want to get their gas at the best price possible and drive on.
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But the ethanol producers, from the farmers to the processors, have benefited handsomely from the subsidies and the mandate.
So you might expect that the same Republican presidential candidates who claim that people should be able to buy the kind of health insurance they want, not the kind government tells them to buy, would make the same claim about gasoline.
You might expect that the same presidential candidates who claim that huge government subsidies and mandates are making health insurance more expensivenot less expensive, as the politicians promisedwould understand that the same thing happened to gasoline.
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And youd be right, a few months ago, since most of those Republicans were against the RFS (including Perry and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker) before they were for itas presidential candidates stumping in Iowa. Their efforts to explain away their policy flip-flop are embarrassingand revealing. At this point it seems only Texas Sen. Ted Cruz remains consistent in his opposition.
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Cruz is tha man!
I hate that stupid engine destroying ethanol.
[It seems only Texas Sen. Ted Cruz remains consistent...]
Why should Cruz be President? Let us count the ways...
Pretty impressive...
Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firms U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
Described as a superb constitutional lawyer, the mans considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
AWARDS: Americas Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America, National Law Journal (2008) 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century, Texas Lawyer (2010) 20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise, Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- Im all in.
I want to like Cruz but I wonder is he really going to fight big government and stand by the constitution? Its becoming harder and harder to like Republicans when they all seem to sell out.
I want to like Cruz but is he the real deal? We need someone to step up and defend our constitution as well as our Bill of Rights. We need to end big government now!
“I want to like Cruz but I wonder is he really going to fight big government and stand by the constitution? Its becoming harder and harder to like Republicans when they all seem to sell out.”
About the only path a Conservative has to election, especially to a major office, is through the Republican primaries and or convention.
The ethanol mandate causes more illegal invaders in America. And with more illegal invaders here, there is more violent crime. Walker, Jeb, and any other supporter of the ethanol mandate is responsible for the increased crime in our neighborhoods. Do these supporters have no shame?
If he gets the nomination than I’m in. I’m a big states rights guy and pro-constitution.
Anyone but the GOP establishment/RINOs. Tea Party only!!
I’m getting caught up on the guy. FR seems to be a wealth of information though I’m a little skeptical. Still I’d rather have anyone who is not a Democrat or a RINO.
He seems conservative enough and if he gets the nomination than I’m in.
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