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If Walker can't stand up to Iowans, how can he stand up to the Islamic State?
Washington Examiner ^
| MARCH 9, 2015 | 11:46 AM
| PHILIP KLEIN
Posted on 03/09/2015 8:38:11 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie
I don’t know what you do as a Conservative in Iowa (hoping to get elected, that is)
You go against ethanol and you are cooked. It’s the functional equivalent of social security to Iowa. Sad but true.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:40:08 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder; thackney
OK ... does corn for ethenol pay more than corn for flakes, or oil, or syrup ?
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:42:27 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
To: SoConPubbie
In my opinion, the ethanol mandate is an example, albeit a small example, of the tyranny of the federal government. There is no longer any valid justification for ethanol - none - except it being a payout to the corn farmers of Iowa.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:43:18 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Wind turbines, aka: bird choppers, cause earthquakes due to their harmonic frequencies.)
To: SoConPubbie
Supporting ethanol is troubling. A lot of us liked Scott Walker as a visionary, but one whose credentials about favoring business interests were still a possible negative. Supporting government funding of a stadium was not a nod to smaller government. Reining unions in is fine, as long as it isn't something that extends to supporting unfair competition against labor.
We still don't really know who Scott Walker is. I hope he doesn't start making decisions based on what political advisors tell him will increase his support.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:43:33 AM PDT
by
grania
To: SoConPubbie
I am still trying to keep an open and positive mind to him. But he is making it difficult.
Ethanol use in engines as an additive is a personal effrontery to me, its having caused me so much trouble with my small engines and O2 sensors on 4 vehicles thus far. To me, pandering to a bunch of Iowa farmers and processors really gets my goat.
It isn’t needed; if it were worth using in gas, it should stand on its merits without subsidy; and we damn well cannot afford to let good edible foodstock be pissed away on political fancy and pandering.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:44:22 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: grania
I think Walker has peaked. We may be looking at another Herman Cain here.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:45:46 AM PDT
by
petercooper
("How To Destroy The Country In 6 Short Years" by Barack Obama & the Democrats)
To: SoConPubbie
Walker is severely compassionately conservative.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:46:00 AM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(Good intentions do not excuse poor results.)
To: SoConPubbie
In my opinion the title of this article is extreme hyperbole.
That being said, there is a point here about not pandering to an electoral group because you want their votes.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:47:01 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: grania
“Supporting government funding of a stadium was not a nod to smaller government.”
I thought the stadium funding was to come from taxes on the players?
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:47:28 AM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I thought the stadium funding was to come from taxes on the players?
Well, isn't a tax, even on a limited group of tax-payers, still a form of government funding of a stadium?
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:48:55 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
It’s called MAD.. Mutual Assured Destruction.
The politics and whack science of today led us down this path.
Who is fit to govern?
Anyone from the beltway is highly suspect.
Join the crowd, Scott.
It’s OK, we have ouchless ObamaCare band-aids.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:49:53 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: knarf
Generally speaking the answer is No. It pays about the same.
To: SoConPubbie
So now we have a Conservative newspaper (Wash Examiner) joining the liberals in trying to take Walker down early. It isn’t going to work.
To: knarf
I think the point is that the gov’t isn’t creating an artificial demand for those other products,
and the free market would direct the use of the land to other products than corn.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:51:30 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: cornfedcowboy
Then WHY would farmers care WHERE their corn goes if they get paid essentially the same ?
Why is ethanol even a political spur ?
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:51:46 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
To: SoConPubbie
So now the idiot who wrote this article is comparing America’s farmers to ISIS terrorists. Give me a break.
This is not a question of “standing up” to violent terrorists. This is a small government program that will continue regardless of what Gov. Walker says or does.
To: knarf
OK ... does corn for ethenol pay more than corn for flakes, or oil, or syrup ?It's not that it pays more, it's that it's a whole different market for corn. According to iowacorn.org, 47% of Iowa corn goes into ethanol production.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:52:25 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
You go against ethanol and you are cooked. Its the functional equivalent of social security to Iowa. Sad but true. And yet Ted Cruz had no problems standing with his long held opposition to ethanol. Do we want a candidate who changes his position merely because he thinks it's the popular thing to do? Or do we want a candidate who will stick to his guns regardless of audience?
To: knarf
Farmers have overproduced corn and now the price is low. If too many plant corn this year, the price will go lower.
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posted on
03/09/2015 8:52:37 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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