Isn't that almost word-for-word what he said about immigration and amnesty just recently?
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Posted on 02/02/2015 4:31:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As he prepares for frequent trips to Iowa to explore a presidential bid, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be pushed to champion ethanol — an issue he has in large part avoided.
Walker has dodged stating his views on the Renewable Fuel Standard, a federal program that requires transportation fuel sold in the United States to contain a minimum volume of renewable fuel, which in practice is usually ethanol made from corn.
The GOP governor has declined to take a position, saying last year he wanted to strike a "careful balance" on the issue that — when higher amounts of ethanol are proposed — pits grain farmers and the ethanol industry against other interests, including Milwaukee engine manufacturer Briggs & Stratton Co. and the outdoor power equipment industry.
Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, said it was "inconceivable" that Walker or others could campaign in Iowa without saying whether they support the federal standard.
"He's going to get asked that question a lot," Shaw said.
Walker acknowledged last week he would have to get off the fence — if he runs.
"That's something that, should I be a candidate in the future, I probably would have to take a stand. But I'm not right now," he told reporters Wednesday after addressing the Chippewa Valley Rally at a Madison hotel.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency missed a deadline to update the Renewable Fuel Standard. It had proposed cutting by 3 billion gallons, or almost 18%, the amount of ethanol in the U.S. fuel supply.
Critics of ethanol say a glut in oil production has made the biofuel additive less important as an alternative to foreign oil....
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Isn't that almost word-for-word what he said about immigration and amnesty just recently?
With due respect, bad analogy.
With Senator Ted Cruz, all we have to do is look at what he says.
With Gov. Scott Walker, can look at not only what he has said, but what he has done.
This past week will be the “high water mark” of his Walker’s campaign. As a neighboring state’s governor, he will need to win Iowa in a landslide. Very high expectations that will be difficult to achieve.
That is the case only if you wish to close your eyes.
That’s an interesting picture and it says a lot.
McCain, Shumer and linda standing and applauding for, principled Ted Cruz neither standing nor applauding.
Sometimes you have to sit down and be quiet to make a very strong point.
Go Ted Cruz!
OK
As I have asked before, what has Ted Cruz accomplished other than getting elected Senator? Once. Practiced law? Graduated from Harvard? And speeches.
Kinda reminds me of another candidate for president.
I am simply asking a question. A question that so far no one has answered. Just insults. Insulting the other candidates or anyone questioning your candidate.
I said it was a bad analogy - and it is.
The two issues are so vastly different in every way that they simply do not make a good analogy.
Ethanol can be stopped and should be stopped. Period.
The effed up situation we have now with immigration due to 60 years of the Feds not doing their jobs is far more complicated and far more massive. Reality will be a striking of the balance. Period. That is, unless you can come up with a way to rapture 12 million (or 15, whatever) illegals.......
It's junk for fuel and totally inefficient!
It is time to stop making ethanol from corn. Let’s see which candidate is willing to take on that corruption.
Pray America is waking
don’t try this at home, you might hurt yourself.
Cruz has already demonstrated more tough leadership on tough issues against the tide of beltway opinion in a few years than most members of Congress exhibit in a lifetime.
His filibuster, against all kinds of internal pressure, planted a flag for all of us, and it led to a big win in 2014. Most people will never ever accomplish such a thing. In short, he’s a leader, he’s fearless, he’s effective. He’s got talent. Period.
Your “read the resume” analysis is shallow, ineffective, non original, not pertinent.
Read his biography and you’ll get the answers you seek. He is responsible for some of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the last 15 years, and he’s just barely 44 years old. He’s the reason Albert Gore wasn’t made president in 2001, right before 9/11.
You can tell whom the left fears most by whom they attack more. While both Walker and Cruz would make excellent conservative candidates, Cruz gets attacked more by the left.
As I said;
Insults.
Thanks for the information. So far we are up to one election, one filibuster, practicing law in front of the Supreme Court and lots of speeches.
I like his speeches, but I am still waiting for a list of his accomplishments. Did he start and run a law firm? Has he any executive record on anything. Or speeches?
You are incapable of recognizing his accomplishments apparently. If you don’t want to be insulted, stop being so shallow and obtuse and friggin boringly unoriginally conventional?
The job of President, as currently structured, does NOT require the kind of boiler plate predictable stuff you are so obsessed with.
I think it is reasonable to list Cruz’s accomplishments. It may not be reasonable to demand that he quit the Senate and start up a law firm before running for President, but it’s not unreasonable to do ask what he has done with his time while in the Senate, if one doesn’t know.
This person probably has the best interest of conservatism at heart.
You are right, but when someone (not you) thinks that what Cruz was doing with the filibuster was just “making a speech” - then we are dealing with someone not smart enough to even be on a political forum IMO.
Absolutely love what Walker did in Wisconsin,super human taking on the thugs in the unions and the decrepit democrats,but when it comes to ethanol where is that same courage?
Ted Cruz not only took on the Democrats but his own phony republicans before the whole country,in Iowa he tells them right up front,stop the ethanol crap and grow corn for food,that will not help him in Iowa but it’s the right thing to do,Mr. Walker lets here your position
“So far we are up to one election, one filibuster, practicing law in front of the Supreme Court and lots of speeches.I like his speeches, but I am still waiting for a list of his accomplishments. Did he start and run a law firm? Has he any executive record on anything. Or speeches?”
He throws lots of red meat to the fiercest conservatives.
He makes a great speech and says all the right things.
I think you’re correct though so far his speeches far outstrip his actual accomplishments, at least for the time being.
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