| | Yahoo News awards senators to Toyota, BMW
 Cynics have long linked senators with the major companies in the states they serve -- or simply have said Washington was in the pockets of big corporations.
Vice President-Elect Joe Biden, for example, was tagged with the label D-MBNA, after the credit card company, for his support for a recent bill making it harder for consumers to declare bankruptcy. Delaware is home to MBNA and other major credit card issuers.
But never in recent memory have news organizations labeled senators as being representatives of those companies outright.
Until today. On their front page and inside pages, Yahoo News today listed two United States senators as proxies for the major auto manufacturers BMW and Toyota. The senators in question are Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Their headline? "Toyota, BMW senators oppose auto rescue."
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