I agree. We need legal reform and tort reform. We should adopt a loser pays rule like they have in most other countries. But as it stands now, she can’t sue to recover those bills. She is an honest and fiscally conservative person. She and her family can’t stand to have those huge bills hanging over them. Now she will be able to pay them off...and be free to attack Obama without fear of additional complaints. Good for her.
Fair is fair.
It's a two-edged sword. If the point is to make it possible for concerned citizenry to make legitimate ethics complaints, they may be scared off of doing so by the prospect of paying costs if the quarry simply out-lawyers them.
So on that front, "loser pays" is a dangerous proposition to endorse. On the other hand, there ought to be something to punish patently frivolous claims.