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Haley Barbour's No-Regrets Style: Edith Piaf with a Mississippi Accent

"The name Mod Squad was not a reference to the 1960s TV show . . . but an acronym for 'Merchants of Death.' Since they were the chief spokespeople for the tobacco, alcohol and firearms industries, it seemed to fit." -- "Thank You for Smoking," by Christopher Buckley On my way to a Wednesday reporters' breakfast with two-term Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, I remembered that passage from one of the great comic novels about the malleable ethics of Washington. Three years after the Buckley satire was published in 1994, Barbour -- then a tobacco lobbyist -- snuck a $50-billion tax ...

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