Posted on 12/11/2002 5:51:47 PM PST by Temple Owl
Last week I warned that the Democrats are an endangered party. I even listed several things necessary for it to get well. Here is an important one that I left out: The Democrats must immediately leap out of the trial lawyer's bed. The trial lawyers, along with the deep-pocketed National Education Association, give the big money that goes with the marching orders.
The tort lawyers, with the help of the Democrats, are now placing America's children in harm's way. With our country at risk from plague terrorists, the tort lawyers are eagerly waiting for a child to become ill after being inoculated.
The Republicans attached a rider to the Homeland Security Bill that prevents the tort lawyers from directly suing the drug companies. It forces them to continue to go through the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program which, according to the Wall Street Journal, was set up in 1986 after lawsuits nearly bankrupted them.
Meanwhile, the vaccine makers decided they did not need that kind of aggravation and have had second thoughts about manufacturing the drug.
The Democrats are not trying to protect taxpayers. They are protecting their own biggest campaign contributors -- trial lawyers. This has to stop if they want their party to stay alive.
I urge the Democrats to fight for school choice, an honest and simple tax system and for a market-based Social Security overhaul.
We must keep a two-party system alive in America.
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