When your last friend is Big Pharma and

you lose him, you're Billy Tauzin.

How did it come to pass that Wilbert Joseph 'Billy' Tauzin, II,
served 25 years as a U. S. Representative from Louisiana
(first as a Democrat, then as a Republican), and then became
the President and CEO of PhRMA, a pharmaceutical lobby
group? Was it because Cajuns are naturally keen on the
U. S. Pharmacopeia and the Physicians' Desk Reference?
(By the way, when Billy laughs, you're about to pay more
for your prescriptions.)