News-Leader: Special session is "handout bonanza"

An editorial in today's Springfield News-Leader describes the current special legislative session as a 'handout bonanza" for special interests, a description that is right on the money:

We call it a sham. We commended Blunt for taking a conservative stand against the undisciplined attempt by lawmakers to give handouts to every special interest that came calling in the failed House Bill 327, the so-called Quality Jobs bill. But it seems Blunt's primary concern wasn't in the handouts, but merely in the amount of dollars associated with them. The new Quality Jobs bill costs much less than the previous version, but it contains many of the same, unnecessary handouts to specific industries. How disappointing.

I eagerly anticipate the metropolitan newspapers' certainly forthcoming articles about how much this "emergency" session cost Missouri taxpayers.