Reply #1: As usual, they cite a Republican failing and attribute it to the Dems...

[rfranklin]

With the 2012 presidential election already on presidential aspirants' front doorstep, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is hiking the campaign trail, stomping the path of ethanol subsidies.

Last Tuesday, the former Speaker visited the Renewable Fuels Association summit in Des Moines, touting the praises of ethanol and its progressive impact on the environment. He then tenderized the farm industry saying, “We have had a problem of farm income back to the 1890s and 1880s the fact is that every time the farmers start to do well someone starts to attack them.”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/6175-ethanol-subsidies-newt-gingrich-and-the-2012-election

When the Republicans controlled Congress, they shied away from sugar reform, yielding to the power of the sugar growers' lobby.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8381