[upchuck]

That's the system George W. Bush stands for: where a corporation can knowingly kill people for profit and, when it finally comes out, everyone knows the penalties will be so light the company doesn't even lose a tenth of its worth.

The fact that Vioxx kills people is all President Bush's fault. Of course it is! How could I have been so dumb?

[goldstategop]

Of course George W. works for Halliburton and Merck. What else you need to know? Just that he favors the fat cats over ordinary Americans. Somehow Molly Ivins' fellow citizens didn't see it that way. Wonder why.

[GeronL]

Liberals have gone totally nuts

[E=MC²]

What's old molly got wired around her neck??? She really stinks and has for years.

[Angry Enough]

Good Lord. What on earth has that woman been smoking? Helen Thomas' stash?

[ChefKeith]

Jeez! I can't beleive that this gasbag is still blowing farts.

[Squantos]

Moore trash from Molly.........I get warm and fuzzy all over just knowing how pissed these seditious presstitutes and their handlers are........Kiss my ( ! ) Molly !

ROTFLMAO !!!.........Phucm !

[Roy Tucker]

But in Texas, we've been losing elections to the demagogic triad of God, gays and guns long enough to be pretty cynical about how it works out.

So what makes Molly think the rest of the country won't keep voting for God, gays and guns, just like Texas? Texans haven't gotten tired of it, why should we. I reckon the movement's getting stronger not weaker. Or is Molly saying that Texans are dumber than the rest of us?

[backhoe]

One of the most satisfying aftereffects of the passing of the most fraudulent, most corrupt Administration in history is the burgeoning irrelevance of its spearcarriers in the media.

You had your 15 minutes, Molly- it's over.

[GOP_Proud]

< So, fellow progressives... >

This is there big code. Progressives instead of liberals. Ain't foolin' anybody, Molly. Buh, bye!

[Constantine XIII]

It's the family's secret bean recipe.

Tasty, but dangerous!

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Molly's hitting the Sterno again...

[driftless]

Let me see: according to Molly's ahem "logic", drug companies like their products to do harm to the people who take them because that will be good business??!!! Typical Ivin's leftist nonsense. She understands nothing and has learned nothing in her sixty years or so on earth. What a waste of oxygen.

[bvw]

The FDA -- "Toothless" regulatory agency

Molly Ivins wants it to do what? Be more intrusive, ask for a dozen MORE rail carloads of paperwork for every drug?

The truoble is that we have a federal agency and regulations TOO BIG by orders of magnitde -- one that *by it's very existance* precludes the formation of effective private and state-by-state or state-jointure operations. The regulatory market as NO comptetition -- only the paperwork tyranny of the FDA.

The FDA sets such a course of arcanity and a multitude on multitude of petty scrutinies that no honest company nor straight-forward person can answer correctly. The result is a chaos of the corrupt, crooked and incompetent -- willing to play a meaningless game -- to produce the carlods of petty arcanities and dot the billion i's, all in place of and in an environment where real safety issues can not be reliably researched nor discussed.

[narses]

"The Wall Street Journal followed the other fork, finding internal memos from Merck showing that company officials may have been aware of the dangers of Vioxx as long ago as 1996,..."

I forget, who was President in 1996? Some GOP thug? Was it Reagan? Nixon? I just can't recall!

[hershey]

Molly Ivans stinko alert.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

That's the system George W. Bush stands for: where a corporation can knowingly kill people for profit and, when it finally comes out, everyone knows the penalties will be so light the company doesn't even lose a tenth of its worth.

This is in contrast to what the Democrats stand for: a corporation can knowingly kill people for profit so long as the trial lawyers get 40% of the lawsuit settlements.

[I_dmc]

Of course, from 1996 to 2001, no one had a clue that there might be a problem with Vioxx, right?

[DooDahhhh]

I think that Molly is describing the Clinton administration!

[Calico Cat]

I am so sick of this woman and her down-homey, hard-drinkin' (or used-to-be-hard-drinkin'), folksy, now-y'all-sit-down-and-I'll-tell y'all-a-story b.s. persona. She and Ann Richards should settle themselves down in a nice little ol' love-nest and stop bothering the rest of us folks right now, ya hear?

[Centaur]

He said the way to do it is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dog's neck, good and strong. And leave it there until that dead chicken stinks so bad that no other dog or person will even go near that poor beast. Thing'll smell so bad the dog won't be able to stand himself. You leave it on there until the last little bit of flesh rots and falls off, and that dog won't kill chickens again.

I live on a farm with dogs and chickens. Now maybe a democratic dog would be dumb enough to let it hang and rot, but my Republican rottweiler is smart enough to just eat the damned thing....and did. :)