Bachmann’s Tricky Ethanol Politics - She’s for it, but she’s also a Tea Partier.

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | June 16, 2011 | Katrina Trinko

[neverdem]

No subsidies!

[WakeUpAndVote]

[Obadiah]

Let me be perfectly clear,

ETHANOL SUCKS!

[fantom]

Gee , a politician who takes both sides of an issue . Same as it ever was.

[apoliticalone]

Bachmann has received significant farm subsidies herself. I’m in favor of ending all subsidies now and using tariffs.

We would be much better off as a nation had we maintained the policy of tariffs which was in place until the central bank (Federal Reserve) was created in the early 1900s. The Federal Reserve started the move towards globalization and debt and affecting our economic policy and with the initiation of the income tax and ending tariffs which created the incentive for national debt.

We are still the world’s primary market and tariffs work to our overall benefit because it encouraged more domestic production. Our current free trade encourages globalization and our economic decline.

[Brad from Tennessee]

It seems to me this ethanol—without additives—could be put in 55-gallon drums and sold around the world as vodka.

[MNJohnnie]

Two months before that call, Bachmann made the controversial decision to vote against a five-year farm bill. The bill, which had been vetoed by Pres. George W. Bush, won the support of the two-thirds required in the House and Senate to override the veto. Bachmann not only voted against the bill — which both of Minnesota’s senators, including Republican Norm Coleman, and six of the eight members of the state’s congressional delegation, voted for — but was also outspoken in her opposition to it, lambasting it for “exemplif[ying] the very worst of Washington’s ways” and for avoiding “every single opportunity for actual reform

Once again "National Romnybots On Line" writes a whole article implying something that is complete at odds with Bachmann's voting record.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Ethanol is big in Iowa and Bachmann need’s Iowa.

[bwc2221]

It will be interesting to see how well Michele holds up if they give her the “Palin treatment” by micro analyzing every aspect of her life.

[Safetgiver]

It seems to me this ethanol—without additives—could be put in 55-gallon drums and sold around the world as vodka. ... No, No, No. It could be sold as corn Likker, which got me started in life. Vodka is made from ‘taters. And it ain’t good fer ya. Turn ya inta a Communist or somethin’.

[Cicero]

She was for it before she was against it?

[joe fonebone]

"Over the course of her career, she’s carefully straddled the line between supporting the industry and arguing against government subsidies."
I guess the bimbo that wrote this article will have to explain to me how supporting something, but not supporting the gevernment subsidizing it is "Straddling the line"...I personally do not like bachmann, but you have to give credit where credit is due. There are a whole bunch of things that I support, but do not support the government subsidizing them....this reportorette is at best an idiot, at worst a moron..(clinical progression is idiot, imbicile, moron)

[DaxtonBrown]

That probably knocks Bachmann out. Once the deluge comes, ethanol has to go.

[Mobties]

The Iowa caucuses begin the process of weeding out. The GOP needs to weed out those candidates who continue to support ethanol subsidies as well as those politicians who continue to promise things that a) don’t work, and b) are prohibitively expensive.

Why wait for the Iowa caucuses? Let the weeding out begin now!

[neverdem]

Once again "National Romnybots On Line" writes a whole article implying something that is complete at odds with Bachmann's voting record.

She's against subsidized ethanol. You lost me. How so?

How's NRO pro Romney? Romney has taken too many positions that are not conservative.

[free me]

“In 2005, Bachmann voted to require all gas sold in Minnesota to contain at least 20 percent ethanol by August 2013”

Doesn’t get anymore government supported than that.

[freekitty]

Has she ever talked to people in the oil and gas industry? The ones that would know or is this about politics only. So far I won’t vote for her. She also voted for the Patriot Act.

[joe fonebone]

I did not know that....the more I learn about her, the more I am glad that I do not like her......

[BelegStrongbow]

Did you read the article? Apparently the head of the ethanol lobbying organization says that is no longer the case.

[Redleg Duke]

And so the Bachmann Bashing begins.

That is a clear signal that she frightens the left.