Reid and Lincoln

For a while yesterday there was a bipartisan compromise jobs bill.  Then Sen. Reid decided to split the bill, bringing the jobs portion up for a vote earlier and delaying the rest until later.  This has the effect of screwing Sen. Lincoln, who's in trouble in her home state of Arkansas and who has been pushing for a disaster program for her farmers, who were too cheap to spring for the full deal on crop insurance.  Why?  Because her disaster program was in the big bipartisan package, but not in the trimmed down version.  See Chris Clayton and Lincoln's site.

Of course, including her package is the sort of logrolling which has earned some opprobrium recently, so Reid can claim to be adhering to good government principles and worrying about the deficit.