Dem Chops: The Other White Meat

USAToday: "Power and money suffered a rare setback in the Senate on Thursday as Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., stopped the top Senate Democrat from inserting a favor for the billboard industry into a must-pass emergency funding bill.

The move was a defeat for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who championed the provision, and for the Outdoor Advertising Association. The industry group's members and their employees gave more than $167,000 to congressional candidates in the last election cycle and spent more than $800,000 lobbying Congress last year."

Ending the war is the most important thing on Harry Reid's to-do list...just behind taking care of a big contributor/lobbyist. And lord knows we love our billboards here in Missouri.