Conservatives hew to principle when it doesn’t matter

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“By allowing more foreign sugar into the United States, we create unnecessary and hurtful competition.”

What left-wing hater of business and free markets could have said such a thing on the House floor Friday? It was Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, who over his nine-year career in Congress has accumulated a 93 percent rating from the American Conservative Union.

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