In a "DOH!" moment...

Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy admitted that corn-to-ethanol mandates are linked to increasing world hunger:

On the Spot. (CNSNews.com) - Senators Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told Cybercast News Service on Wednesday that they believe there is a connection between federally mandated consumption of ethanol, a gasoline additive made from corn, and world food shortages.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandates that increasing amounts of ethanol be used in the United States to dilute gasoline. The law called for 4 billion gallons of ethanol to be used in 2006, 6.1 billion gallons in 2009, and 7.5 billion gallons by 2012.

As the demand for corn has increased because of increased ethanol consumption, the Washington Post reported this week, the number of acres used to grow wheat in the U.S. has contracted, contributing to a shortage of wheat on the world market and an overall increase in world grain prices.

"I think very definitely there is a clear connection between our ethanol use and world hunger," Kennedy told Cybercast News Service . "The connection is becoming more evident and understood more every day by the American people. And they understand that there is very little that's being done to address the problem."

Well, it appears that our good murdering senator from the State of Massachusetts has finally bought a clue.

They better have a clue.

It was the liberal-nutjobs along with big agriculture who used these mandates as yet another good-intentioned paving stone on their highway to hell.

The jig is up; and as Rev. Wright is so fond of saying, "The chickens-ah; have come home to roost!"