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January 27, 2009
Lawsuit Czar Proposed
The Moonbat Messiah will bring change, all right. As it stands, America's economy has been crushed beneath a thousand tons of regulation and litigation. With Obama, it will be crushed beneath a million tons of regulation and litigation. The next nugget of hopey change: enshrining an official lawsuit czar, who will preside over the looting of the productive by the verminous locust swarm known as trial lawyers:
One thing the Obama White House doesn't lack is czars. So far, there are or soon will be an energy czar, an economy czar, a health care czar and an urban affairs czar. There may yet be a White House car czar, and, if the class-action trial lawyers have their way — which they almost always do when the Democrats they bought and paid for are in power — there will soon be a lawsuit czar, too. The American Association for Justice (AAJ) nee American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA) was careful in its statement last week not to call explicitly for a czar. Shorn of AAJ's rhetorical smoke, however, it's clear a czar is exactly what AAJ has in mind with its proposed White House office to "coordinate federalism issues" throughout the executive branch.
The immediate focus of AAJ's White House lawsuit czar would be "pre-emption." The class-action lawyers want to make sure Obama makes good on a campaign promise to reverse the recent trend among federal regulators to pre-empt — i.e. supersede — state jurisdiction on consumer safety regulation, particularly in the areas of transportation and prescription drugs. The class-action lawyers want to be able to file 50 separate class-action suits against an alleged corporate sinner instead of just one in federal court.
The White House lawsuit czar is needed, AAJ claims, to insure "the right of Americans to hold wrongdoers accountable through the civil justice system." Translated, AAJ knows more class-action lawsuits mean more settlements mean more fees for the attorneys. The AAJ proposal couldn't be more ill-timed. As the Institute for Legal Reform's Lisa Rickard said "America cannot sue its way out of this recession. More lawsuits won't create more jobs, help consumers or rebuild America's infrastructure."
But if Dems had any interest in ending the recession, they would cut taxes and stop wasting hundreds of $billions on obscene pork packages. On the contrary, they are deliberately worsening the recession, in hopes of achieving a depression, which will greatly facilitate their socialist power grab. A federally encouraged feeding frenzy by ambulance chasers will be helpful in this regard.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 27, 2009 8:51 AM
Comments
I agree 100% with what you stated. They are not stupid and they know what they are doing is the exact opposite of that which is needed to stimulate the ecomomy. It is insidious but the intent is to worsen the recession (after all they still can keep calling it Bush's) to facilitate more govm't takeover of private enterprise as well as create more dependat citizens. It is strictly a power grab by leftists and I don't mean Democrats. I mean dyed in the wool lefists. The Democrt Party was just a means to their assent to power. Ulimately they couldn't care less about them any more than they do Repbs., indepenents or anyone else.
Posted by: JohnC. at January 27, 2009 9:59 AM
Tort reform is one of those issues that's really needed and hard to get people to take seriously. There needs to be some kind of corporate responsibility but litigation clearly isn't the answer.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 27, 2009 11:44 AM
The vultures and sharks are gathering in WASHINGTON D.C.(DISTRICT of CRINIMALS) Knowing there will be a big time feeding frenzie becuase they smell blood
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 27, 2009 12:26 PM
When the law is used as a weapon, liberty is in serious trouble.
This is the worst possible turn of events for any sort of reform when it comes to unreasonable lawsuits.
Posted by: matt at January 27, 2009 1:49 PM
So whoo is the lawsuit czar going to sue?
Posted by: tarpon at January 27, 2009 6:31 PM
As was writted by WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR,, AND LET US THE FIRST THINGS WE DO WE SHALL KILL ALL THE LAWYERS
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 27, 2009 10:27 PM
These days everything is backwards and crazy. The liberals are invading every aspect of our life. Soon you wont be able to win a game everything will have to be a tie so no one's feelings get hurt.
Posted by: marcia at January 28, 2009 6:23 AM
