{"id":8512,"date":"2011-01-31T12:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2011-01-31T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:04:22","slug":"feisty-start-to-2012-race-newt-picks-fight-with-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8512\/feisty-start-to-2012-race-newt-picks-fight-with-wall-street-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Feisty Start to 2012 Race: Newt Picks Fight with Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newt versus The Wall Street Journal<\/em> editorial board – the unofficial 2012 Republican campaign is off to a very lively start.<\/p>\n

On January 22, the Journal<\/em> ran a commentary entitled “Amber Waves of Ethanol”<\/a> in which it criticized federal ethanol subsidies.\u00a0 It noted that, “Four of every 10 rows of corn now go to produce fuel for American cars or trucks, not food or feed,” which does nothing to improve the environment or our reliance on foreign oil, but wastes billions in taxpayer dollars and drives food price inflation.\u00a0 Likely 2012 candidate Newt Gingrich responded in Iowa last Tuesday<\/a>, repeatedly referring to himself “as an historian” and accusing the Journal<\/em> as part of a sinister cabal, saying, “Obviously big urban newspapers want to kill it because it’s working, and you wonder, ‘What are their values?'”<\/p>\n

This morning, the Journal<\/em> responds in its lead commentary entitled “Professor Cornpone.”<\/a> This dispute, it says, symbolizes the larger fight “between the House Republicans now trying to rationalize the federal fisc and the kind of corporate welfare that President Obama advanced in his State of the Union”:<\/p>\n

Given that Mr. Gingrich aspires to be President, his ethanol lobbying raises larger questions about his convictions and judgment.\u00a0 The Georgian has been campaigning in the Tea Party age as a fierce critic of spending and government, but his record on that score is, well, mixed…\u00a0 Now Republicans have another chance to reform government, and a limited window of opportunity in which to do it…\u00a0 So along comes Mr. Gingrich to offer his support for Mr. Obama’s brand of green-energy welfare, undermining House Republicans in the process.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regardless of one’s views toward Mr. Gingrich as a potential candidate, the fact that the race is already lively with substantive policy debate is a healthy sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newt versus The Wall Street Journal editorial board – the unofficial 2012 Republican campaign is off to a very lively start. On January 22, the Journal ran a commentary entitled “Amber Waves of Ethanol” in which it criticized federal ethanol subsidies.\u00a0 It noted that, “Four of every 10 rows of corn now go to produce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,59,562,19,2248,205,12,869,61,2350,28,413],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-ethanol","tag-global-warming","tag-health-care","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-spending","tag-subsidies","tag-tea-party","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}