THE AFGHAN MP3 CONTROVERSY. What, you hadn't heard about it, either? A friend who does regional work forwards on this YouTube ad about a former Mitch McConnell staffer who became a lobbyist and had McConnell help his client get a fat contract to send MP3 players to Afghanistan:
Paid for by the Public Campaign Action Fund, the ad was running on the air in Kentucky earlier this month, and is part of what appears to be a kind of broader payback effort by Democrats and liberal groups looking to target the Senate Minority Leader as intensively as Tom Daschle once was targeted by Republicans.
--Garance Franke-Ruta
