Reid launches sign war against Angle

Let the sign wars begin.

Since last year, rural Nevadans have been putting up homemade signs protesting U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's re-election.

On front lawns, alongside Nevada's lonely highways and on small city street corners, they're hard to miss, proclaiming, "Anybody Butt Reid."

Now, volunteers for the Democratic incumbent's campaign are putting up signs in Reno and Las Vegas that go after his Republican opponent Sharron Angle.

The signs show Angle's photo and a quote from her saying, "As your U.S. senator, I'm not in the business of creating jobs."

What's not on the sign is what Angle says she thinks a senator's job should be -- to turn around the economy.

Angle says Congress should create a business-friendly environment by cutting taxes and getting rid of excess regulation so companies have more money to hire more workers.

But that explanation hardly fits on a yard sign -- nor does it make Reid's point that as Nevada unemployment soars, Angle says it wouldn't be her job to create jobs if elected.

Reid's campaign likes to point to phone calls he made to banks to help keep the money flowing last year for the $8.5 billion CityCenter project that employs 10,000 people now.

"When it comes to jobs, Sharron Angle has long believed that Nevadans are on their own," Reid campaign spokesman Jon Summers says.