Posted on 02/19/2005 2:15:04 AM PST by Liz
Careful with that common sense stuff...here's why it wouldn't work. The firm of Breck, Mousse and Hairjel want to file a class action against Bayer aspirin because millions of people have endured minor stomach upset on their way to enjoying relief from headaches. Each one of the million sufferers will get a coupon for $4.50 for a bottle of aspirin. The lawyers will collect $3 for every coupon issued. But, where to file? How about Hattiesburg, Mississippi? Great juries there. But how to make it a Hattiesburg problem...
Aren't there drugstores in Hattiesburg that sell aspirin? Sue that drugstore!!make Fred's Pharmacy a defendant along with Bayer...that makes it a Hattiesburg lawsuit...
I understand where your common sense is coming from--but unfortunately, the law has no common sense.
The Republicans need a clear trail of votes like this to be in place by 2007. Either she'll have to moderate her voting record, and piss off her liberal friends, or she'll be trapped by her Senate record a la Kerry. Soon she'll figure out that the only thing in the middle of the road is roadkill. Then we'll have the Democrats nominating another Northeast liberal.
Too early for wind surfing. They should have held the vote in June and he would have missed it. Not that there is anything wrong with it, I am looking forward to the summer and the water.
Actions speak louder than words.
Bill Clinton's wife can utter all the centrist statements she wants. But when it comes down to it, she's still a Leftist. Her nay vote on this finds it source not so much in favoring lawyers, of which she is one, but of using the litigation system to redistribute wealth from wealthy enterprises that became wealthy through Capitalism to 'the people' who she believes are the slaves and victims of any corporation.
Her dissent found its source in Marxism.
Three 'major' votes in the early days of the Senate.
Condi Rice [Senate Roll Call Vote 0002] Dems [32-12] [Jeffords Nay]
Al Gonzales [0003] Dems [6-35] [Jeffords Nay]
Class Action Fairness Act [0009] Dems [18-26] [Jeffords Yea]
Four dem's voted YEA on all three.
Landrieu (D-LA) [maybe she is getting the message from home - next test will be on first Judicial nominee]
Lieberman (D-CT)
Nelson (D-NE)
Salazar (D-CO)
Eleven voted NAY on all three [no surprises here].
Akaka (D-HI)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
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