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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (25661)	1/11/2005 8:43:50 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

There are some 3-4 lobbyists to every member of Congress. Under Clinton it was ...? Under Carter? Under LBJ? Under Bush, businesses are selecting their own slate of judicial nominees. Many in Congress, including Republicans, are lawyers. sec.gov WHOOPS! A TRIAL LAWYER! library.umaine.edu in addition to Washington insider. Another lawyer ibiblio.org Many in Congress, including Republicans, are lawyers. Maybe you should actually read that American history book they gave you in high school. Instead of cheating your way through th course. You would find THAT has been true of both parties, every Congress, and every state legislature. I think you got hit by your own partisan tomato. What about the pool company that Edwards sued? That's one. What about ALL HIS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE SUITS? One of the most successful personal-injury lawyers in North Carolina history, Mr. Edwards won dozens of lawsuits against doctors and hospitals across the state that he now represents in the Senate. He won more than 50 cases with verdicts or settlements of $1 million or more, according to North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, and 31 of those were medical-malpractice suits. washingtontimes.com Here's FindLaw. They're pretty fair. news.findlaw.com What would happen if companies had NO LIABILITY for anything that their product did? Nice attempt at a straw man. Not very good, though. Nobody is advocating that. OTOH, Should that guy who got the wrong leg cut off be awared 10,000 times the total he could ever possibly expect to make in his lifetime? Suppose a doc prescribes a drug and it paralyzes a patient. It is a side effect of the drug- -but that isn't known yet; this is the 1st time it happened. Should the doc be bankrupted for an error he had no way of knowing he was making? That's about as pure a market economy as exists in the world = total chaos but a bumper crop of opium. Bumper crop of bunkum in your case. Why aren't capitalists moving there in droves? Because they like law and order and aren't crazy? Why aren't you? Perfect fit. Those states which have tort reform have shown no significant decrease in insurance rates. Let's see your source. Oh yeah, tort reform (capping or eliminating awards) as Bush envisions it is government interference in a market economy. Whatever happened to the free marketeers in the RNC? Maybe the RNC has realized your lawmakers were asses.