And the Times is just getting around to figuring out that the 1600 Crew puts happy labels on it's programs to fool the dumber-than-dogshit Faux Viewership?
They honestly all need to be unemployed for a while...punitively unemployed.
Under the phony banner of "tort reform," this act is a legislative gift to wealthy special interests. It would make it harder for Americans to win redress in court for corporate violations of state civil rights, health, consumer and environmental protection laws. The act's core provisions would permit big polluters and other companies to delay justice, or even escape justice entirely, by moving most class-action lawsuits from state courts to the overburdened federal courts, which are less familiar with the disputed legal and factual issues. The act would also impose new litigation hurdles and burdens on plaintiffs.
President Bush backs the bill, and the House has passed an even more egregious version, which would be applied retroactively to all pending class-action cases. The central question today is whether the lawmakers with the courage to stand up to this bill can hang onto the votes they need to sustain a filibuster in the Senate.
Filibuster? Are they kidding? This bill should go straight to the shredder. Along with "Healthy Forests" "Clear Skies" and all the other 1600 Crew special-interest crap. If it weren't for Class Action suits, we'd all be clamoring for more asbestos, more cigarettes for our kids and be buying Freon Rebreathing Apparatuses at premium prices while we ate PCB cornflakes (Loosners? With real glycerin vibrafoam?)
They need to hire Molly Ivins, one of the best decoders of 1600 Speak in the US, or just get new jobs. Jeebus.
