He's on a rampage, it seems: "Bush Blames 'Junk Lawsuits' for Job Woes"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/campaign_rdp



President Bush (news - web sites) and rival John Kerry (news - web sites) on Tuesday offered different ways to boost the sluggish job market, the president calling for legal reforms to help workers and businesses while his Democratic opponent proposed ending tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas.

Kerry, moving aggressively in the face of polls showing his candidacy lagging, used the latest forecast of a record budget deficit to bolster his contention that Bush is leading the country in the wrong direction. The Bush administration described the lower deficit prediction as positive economic news.

In his second day of campaigning in Missouri, a state he won in 2000 by just 79,000 votes out of 2.3 million cast, Bush told a rally in suburban Kansas City that Kerry had stood in the way of legal reforms that would help generate jobs and protect workers and businesses. He called Kerry "one of the trial lawyers' most reliable allies in the Senate."

Bush, linking Kerry policies to campaign donations from trial attorneys, said "junk lawsuits" hinder job creation and cost the economy more than $230 billion a year.

[bluestateguy]

1. I know of one junk lawsuit

It was filed by a nutty, slutty woman in Arkansas against the President of the United States and tied the nation up in knots for almost 2 years.

[miss_kitty]

2. for a guy who claimed in 2000 to be the one to usher in a new era

of responsibility, he sure seems to have a hard time walking the talk.

i guess he's consistant....

[cheshire]

3. Yeah How the hell do you get from one to the other. Fuzzy math?

[teryang]

4. Insurance co. attack on Constitutional right...

...which has a legal history much older than the republic.

Insurance companies rip off doctors and small busineses every day but have them brainwashed that the "trial lawyers" and frivolous suits are the problem. Dumb and dumber. The privileged capitalists and their consumer flunkies would have you believe that giving up your fundamental right of access to the courts to redress injuries and grievances is somehow going to benefit the republic (and the additional specious argument that it will benefit the moribund and corrupt economy).

[Lex]

5. Yeah, the junk lawsuit heard by the US Supreme Ct, Bush v. Gore

in 2000 that got Chimpy's sorry ass into the White House by 1 vote.

That's the junk lawsuit that's been causing so many JOB LOSSES!!

[Zookeeper]

6. It's a thinly veiled slap at Edwards. n/t