Key question: How did Michelle Bachmann vote on the farm subsidy bills?

She wouldn't be alone, of course. But if she wants to campaign on capping and cutting federal spending to levels only affordable based on tax revenues, I think she'll have a hard time arguing that she comes from an agricultural state and therefore $20 billion of the taxpayers money spent on subsidies to farmers (or those that call themselves farmers) is justified. If there's any category of federal spending that isn't likely to survive a "cut, cap and balance" agenda, it would be the farm subsidy programs.

The U.S. gives farmers over $20 billion a year! Because of the success of their lobbyists, 46% of that amount goes to corn growers, mostly in Iowa. I wonder whether Michelle Bachmann or any other GOP candidate campaigned on the elimination of farm subsidies in the recent Iowa straw poll? There will be several debates among the GOP candidates in the next 30-45 days. That might make a good question for them all to answer.