Jon Tester's bill and his former staffer's lobbying client

For more than two years, folks have been using and abusing the word “bailout.” I think we’ve had plenty of bailouts since the beginning of 2008, and I’m not picky about its use, but today I read an awful abuse of the word.

The Merchants Payments Coalition blasted out an email titled “Senator Tester Offers Plan to Bail out Wall Street at Expense of Main Street Small Businesses” — all the buzz words. It referred to the “Latest Wall Street Bailout” and even called it “TARP 2.”