Bush Loses Again

Just hours after being humiliated by the Senate vote firmly rejecting his anti-gay constitutional amendment, Bush loses again. (The Senate voted 78 to 15 to end tobacco subsidies in the next decade and impose harsher advertising restrictions. The site has been "updated" and some links aren't working. Our apologies.)
 
Unlike almost everyone else (excepting tobacco growers themselves, of course), Bush opposed the bill because he thought it was great that we spent billions of tax dollars supporting the growth of tobacco, a huge cash crop and one of the most addictive substances known to man. He also thought it was fine there wasn't more stringent oversight on advertising -- despite the fact that smokeless tobacco is making inroads among young people. The Senate overwhelmingly said otherwise and it looks like in another ten years we will be out of the tobacco subsidy business -- saving billions -- and using harsher restrictions on advertising.