Eleven key 2012 US Senate races backed and lost by the GOP establishment:
1. Florida,
- Chamber of Commerce and Jeb Bush backed Connie Mack IV lost by 13 points.
Jeb Bush and Connie Mack IV
- In Montana, Romney beat Obama by 13.7 points. Establishment supported GOP Senate candidate Denny Rehberg still lost.
4. Nevada,
- Republican Dean Heller was the incumbent having been appointed to the seat after scandal-compromised Republican Senator John Ensign resigned. Heller lost by 1.2 points to a democrat under an ethics investigation.
- Heather Wilson lost an open seat to a democrat by 5.7 points.
- In North Dakota Romney beat Obama by 19.6 points. GOP establishment supported Senate candidate Rick Berg still lost to a non-incumbent democrat.
- Establishment George Allen lost by 5.9 points. In 2006 Allen only lost by .3.
- Bush retread Tommy Thompson lost to a non-incumbent democrat by 5.5 points. The democrat winner, Tammy Baldwin “authored a provision included in the Affordable Care Act that allows young adults to stay on their parent’s insurance until age 26.”
- Independent who caucuses with democrats Angus King won by 22 points.
- The incumbent democrat won by 6 points.
11. Massachusetts
- Incumbent Republican Scott Brown lost by 7.5 points to far left democrat Elizabeth Warren.
11/16/12, "Republicans Allowed Karl Rove to Mislead Them Again," Daily Beast, Matt Latimer
“In the past two election cycles, he (Rove) and his acolytes have personally helped Barack Obama get elected and yet made millions in the process. You tell me who the dummy is—Rove or the people who keep listening to him and funding him?”…
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Added: The 2012 GOP establishment presidential candidate was guaranteed to lose since he had no desire to be president and never wanted to run in the first place (parag. 15). This may explain why Romney refused to loan any of his famous millions to his 2012 campaign when it desperately needed them. As long as the GOP-E has anything to say about it Democrats are guaranteed to win.
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Ethanol was forced on the US and world economy in 2005 and 2007 by the Bush administration. Unfortunately, Mississippi's US Senator Thad Cochran voted yes on both bills:
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In 2012 World Bank begged the US to end its ethanol quotas which have caused a global food crisis:
8/9/12, "Easing US ethanol mandate would help prevent food crisis-UN," Reuters
.
"Global pressure on the United States to relax its ethanol quota mounted on Thursday as the top World Bank food official said an "immediate, temporary suspension" of the mandate could help head off another world
food crisis."...8/9/12, "Easing US ethanol mandate would help prevent food crisis-UN," Reuters
.
"Global pressure on the United States to relax its ethanol quota mounted on Thursday as the top World Bank food official said an "immediate, temporary suspension" of the mandate could help head off another world
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In 2008 UN official Jean Ziegler, called biofuels “a crime against humanity”and called for a five-year moratorium. Biofuels cause mass starvation:
4/4/2008, “UN chief calls for review of biofuels policy,” UK Guardian, Julian Borger
“Ban Ki-moon speaks out amid global food shortage, 33 countries facing unrest as families go hungry.”
“The UN’s own special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, called biofuels “a crime against humanity”, and called for a five-year moratorium….The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has called for a comprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in global food prices – partly caused by the increasing use of crops for energy generation - threatens to trigger global instability.”…
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Biofuels have driven up global food prices by 75%:
“Biofuels have driven up global food prices by 75 percent, according to the Guardian report, accounting for more than half of the 140 percent jump in price since 2002 of the food examined by the study. The paper claims that the report, completed in April, was not made public in order to avoid embarrassing US President George W. Bush….
“Political leaders seem intent on suppressing and ignoring the strong evidence that biofuels are a major factor in recent food price rises,” Oxfam policy advisor Robert Bailey told the Guardian on Friday."…
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Even billionaire Michael Bloomberg who has financial interests in the CO2 industry says ethanol causes mass starvation (translation: ethanol is genocide):
2/11/08, "Bloomberg slams U.S. energy law over corn ethanol" Reuters by Louis Charbonneau and Timothy Gardner
.
"A new U.S. energy law will cause an increase in global food prices and lead to starvation deaths worldwide because it continues to promote corn ethanol, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday.
- "People literally will starve to death in parts of the world,
- it always happens when food prices go up," Bloomberg told reporters
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3/20/13, "Corn Ethanol Fuels Riots" Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
"Corn ethanol gets just about everything wrong: it increases emissions, it starves the world’s poor, it isn’t efficient, and it drains billions of taxpayer dollars in subsidies. As it turns out, it might also be responsible for last year’s violent labor protests in South Africa and food protests in Haiti and Argentina. The story was covered here at The American Interest last October, but on Monday Real Clear Energy gave a nice summary touching on the correlation between food prices and civil unrest...
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"The UN urged
the US to cut its ethanol mandates last August to help ease spiking
world food prices....If not for the sake of emissions, efficiency, or the world’s
starving poor, then for a more stable geopolitical landscape."...==========================
Even the 2014 UN IPCC report admits biofuels do more harm than good and drive up food prices:
3/23/14, "Biofuels do more harm than good, UN [IPCC] warns," UK Telegraph, Robert Mendick
"Growing crops to make “green” biofuel harms the environment and drives up food prices, admits the United Nations [IPCC]."
"The United Nations will officially warn that growing crops to make “green” biofuel harms the environment and drives up food prices, The Telegraph can disclose.
A leaked draft of a UN report condemns the widespread use of biofuels made
from crops as a replacement for petrol and diesel. It says that biofuels,
rather than combating the effects of global warming, could make them worse.
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The draft report represents a dramatic about-turn for the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
.
Its previous assessment on climate change, in 2007, was widely condemned by
environmentalists for giving the green light to large-scale biofuel
production. The latest report instead
puts pressure on world leaders to scrap policies promoting the use of biofuel for transport.
The summary for policymakers states: “Increasing bioenergy crop cultivation poses risks to ecosystems and biodiversity.”
The report into the impact of man-made climate change is the most
authoritative of its kind. For the first time, it considered the impact of
biofuels on the environment.
Biofuels were once billed as the green alternative to fossil fuels, but environmental campaigners have voiced concern about them for some time.
They note that growing biofuel crops on a large scale requires either the conversion of agricultural land used for food crops or the destruction of forests to free up land, possibly offsetting any reduction in carbon emissions from the use of biofuels.
Other concerns include increased stress on water supplies and rising corn prices as a result of increased demand for the crop, which is fermented to produce biofuel.
Biofuels were once billed as the green alternative to fossil fuels, but environmental campaigners have voiced concern about them for some time.
They note that growing biofuel crops on a large scale requires either the conversion of agricultural land used for food crops or the destruction of forests to free up land, possibly offsetting any reduction in carbon emissions from the use of biofuels.
Other concerns include increased stress on water supplies and rising corn prices as a result of increased demand for the crop, which is fermented to produce biofuel.
A European Union directive set a target for biofuels used in transport to double to 10 per cent by 2020, although it has limited the amount from food crops to 5 per cent.
Around 5 per cent of fuel sold in the UK comes from biodiesel. The latest Department for Transport figures show 1.33 billion litres were consumed here for the 12 months to April 2013. The IPCC report appears to recognise environmentalists’ concerns. It states: “If production [of biofuels] is not carefully managed, biofuel feedstocks can displace land for food cropping or natural, unmanaged ecosystems.”
Referring in part to deforestation, it says any benefit of biofuel production on carbon emissions “may be offset partly or entirely for decades or centuries by emissions from the resulting indirect land-use changes”.
On biofuel production from corn, it adds:
“Resulting increases in demand for corn contribute to higher corn prices and may indirectly increase incidence of malnutrition in vulnerable populations.”
An IPCC spokesman said she could not comment until the final report is published on March 31."
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Big banks like ethanol too, say it's a matter of 'national security:'
9/5/12, “Bankers: Ethanol at heart of corn, farm
pricing structure,” Reuters
.
“The facts, they say, show that ethanol is now bolted
on to the core of three huge industries:
energy, meat and banking....
“Corn can be a national security issue for this
country,” said Curt Covington, senior vice president
for agricultural and rural
banking
at Bank of the West, the second largest
commercial lender to U.S.
farmers. “That’s where we are right now.”"...
at Bank of the West, the second largest
commercial lender to U.S.
farmers. “That’s where we are right now.”"...
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US Senator from Mississippi Thad Cochran voted twice to embed deadly ethanol mandates in the US. In 2007 voted to embed them until 2022, Sect. 202:
2005 Ethanol bill, Yes from both McConnell and Cochran:
June 28, 2005, ""H.R. 6 (109th): Energy Policy Act of 2005 (On Passage of the Bill)," Senate Vote
Kentucky, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R, YEA
Mississippi, Sen. Thad Cochran, R, YEA
"The RFS (Renewable Fuel Standard) program was created under the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005, and established the first renewable fuel volume mandate in the United States. As required under EPAct, the original RFS program (RFS1) required 7.5 billion gallons of renewable- fuel to be blended into gasoline by 2012.
Under the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, the RFS program was expanded in several key ways."...
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2007 Ethanol bill, "Aye" from both McConnell and Cochran:
12/13/2007, "On the Motion (Motion to Concur in the Amendment of the House to the Amendment of the Senate to the Text of H.R. 6, with an Amendment)"
Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, R, Aye
Mississippi, Thad Cochran, R, Aye
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Bill title: "H.R.6 - Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007"
"An Act to move the United States toward greater energy independence and security, to increase the production of clean renewable fuels, to protect consumers from price gouging, to increase the energy efficiency of products, buildings, and vehicles, to promote research on and deploy greenhouse gas capture and storage options, and to improve the energy performance of the Federal Government, and for other purposes."
Section 202: "Specifies such volumes for calendar years 2013 through 2022. Applies such applicable volumes to advanced biofuel, cellulosic biofuel, and biomass-based diesel for certain of these years." (Scroll to "Read the Rest")
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