Richard Lugar takes on Big Sugar

Richard Lugar is getting a Tea Party challenge this year, but as I wrote in my December column on the issue, Lugar’s not the type of guy to tack to the Right just in order to please a primary electorate. Lugar is something of a porker, he’s a bailout backer, and he’s an ethanol booster. He’s for exactly the sort of Big Business-Big Government junk that drives Tea Partiers crazy.

That’s what makes his new crusade against sugar subsidies so noteworthy.