Tournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Bellarmine PR | Judge: Margo Batha
Politics

Farm bill will pass now- but it’ll be close
O’Keefe 1/8/14 (Ed O’Keefe Washington Post January 8, 2014 “Farm bill talks nearing conclusion with about $9 billion in food stamp cuts”)
Negotiations are almost ... he told reporters.

Obama’s political capital is key – the impact is food security
Clayton, 11/5/2013 (Eva M., former congresswoman and former Assistant Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, “Congressional and Presidential Leadership Needed for a Fair and Equitable Farm Bill,” Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eva-m-clayton/congressional-and-presidential_b_4221884.html)
Will Congress and ... security depends on it.

High food prices lead to conflict and escalates to nuclear war
Klare, Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil, 2006 (Michael, “The Coming Resource Wars,” March 7, http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/07/the_coming_resource_wars.php)
Reid’s speech, delivered ... forms of conflict. 

CP

Plan text: The President of the United States of America should issue an executive order to their plan text was too long 

Unilateral action avoids the politics DA – doesn’t spend political capital.
Howell, Associate Professor of Government @ Harvard University, 5 (William G., Associate Professor of Government @ Harvard University, “Unilateral Powers: A Brief Overview,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 35, no. 3, September, p. 421)
The actions that ... policy will stand.

Tournament: ASU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Basis Chandler RN | Judge: Kinsee Gaither
T

In the US context, economic engagement must include conditional carrots and sticks.
Helweg, Professor of Public Policy @ SMU, 2000 (Diana, Economic Strategy and National Security, p. 145) 

Secretary of State ... than one or the other.

PTX: Same as R1

XO: Same as R1

K
The Affirmative regurgitates past pain and suffering to show themselves as a moral option in an immoral world. This action is a stimulant used to mask real pain with surplus enjoyment, creating charred men where we feel but are not alive.
Zupancic 03 alenka, “The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two,” 47-49
It might seem ... them with enjoyment

The desire to mask suffering with enjoyment is the ascetic ideal par excellence. the aff’s morals are employed to make on feel accomplished by their personal restraints.
Zupancic 03 alenka, “The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two,” 47-49
The ascetic ideal ... of “religious” thinking.  

Our alternative is to forget about the suffering in the 1ac. the pain cited by the 1ac is only attended to by the memory of the 1ac to further asceticism, only a break away from these memories solves.
Zupancic 03 alenka, “The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two,” 57-60
This is perhaps ... possibility of a new one.

Tournament: ASU | Round: 6 | Opponent: Phoenix Country Day School | Judge: Stephanie Garrett
Same as Round 3