Having it both ways is a Clinton campaign tradition

Glover Park vs. Ethanol

Roll Call reported this morning on an eyebrow-raising memo out of the Clintonite consulting firm the Glover Park Group, where aide Howard Wolfson is on a leave of absence.

Hot on the heels of The Clintons' chief strategiust, Mark Penn, lobying for a trade deal with Colombia, now comes Clinton literary critic Howard Wolfson, whose lobbying firm isn't willing to take the Iowa ethanol pledge:

"The document was a proposal to represent the Grocery Manufacturers Association in a campaign against ethanol, whose use as fuel is driving up food prices.

“First, we must obliterate whatever intellectual justification might still exist for corn-based ethanol among policy elites. ... Second, we must demonstrate to policy makers at the state and federal level that there is a political price to allowing ethanol policy to drive up the cost of food,” Glover Park wrote.

In order to do that, Glover Park said the campaign must “clearly show the direct and irrefutable link between corn-based ethanol policy and the variety of harms caused by that policy, above all food price inflation” along with an urgent and remedy-based messaging strategy.

"Obliterate ethanol. That would have played well in Iowa."