JONAH GOLDBERG: “I was very, very, disappointed in the Walker team for the decision to capitulate to the bullying efforts of the Iowa state GOP.” “I get that Walker needs to win Iowa and that staffers aren’t more important than the candidate. But principles are. If Walker didn’t want a critic of the Iowa caucuses on his payroll he shouldn’t have hired one. But he did.”

Ethanol subsidies are stupid, though that’s only sort of what this is about. And while the special interest groups are watching and keeping score, they aren’t the only ones out there who are watching and keeping score.