Letters to the Editor
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re: Robert Bork is a liberal?
A liberal? Are you asserting that Bork is trying to get something for nothing, as a liberal would?
Hmmmm. Which aspect of Bork's suit is the "nothing" for which you insinuate he unfairly expects "something"?
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rrheard
Guess the sound one hears first is that of someone choking down a big fat piece of humble pie or crow.
You would guess wrong..
Those lacking any ethical foundation are completely untroubled by doing an instantaneous moral 180.
In fact, they lack enough self awareness to even realize that is what they are doing.
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Update VI, in Which Revenge is Best Served Cold
I laughed out loud.
Goldfarb's scalp hangs on Greenwald's lodgepole this evening.
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Agree as a golfer that it is an honorable and enjoyable pursuit.
Courses are getting better every year at being good environmental stewards which is very important to me as a player. Sad that so many who also love the game happen to be cigar chomping "conservative" nut bags. Much like their political icons and heroes they have very little respect for tradition, fair play, honor among competitors, and those pesky pesky rules whether they be USGA, the Constitution, or FISA.
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Shooter
Does that smoking hole in your foot hurt?
http://tinyurl.com/2uaubv
Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages,
Judge Bork has been a leading advocate of restricting plaintiffs' ability to recover through tort law. In a 2002 article published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy--the official journal of the Federalist Society--Bork argued that frivolous claims and excessive punitive damage awards have caused the Constitution to evolve into a document which would allow Congress to enact tort reforms that would have been unconstitutional at the framing:
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Michael Goldfarb
I know it might be an improper thing to say, but you can imagine what these guys look like by their names sometimes.
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What terrorist would be stupid enough to use a phone anyway?
Is FISA about terrorism? No. To the extent that there is an Al Qaida I cannot imagine that "those who would harm America" actually discussing their plans on a phone of any sort, or via email. No one is that stupid.
So what is it for? Who is the real target?
I must say I am really surprised to see the Democrats standing up. It may be that they can finally bring themselves to believe that someday soon, Bush will be gone. I know that I have trouble believing it.
311 days, 1 hour and 52 minutes to go...
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Leading Conservative Activist Seeks Punitive Damages
Borked!
http://www.acsblog.org/economic-regulation-employment-leading-conservative-activist-seeks-punitive-damages.html
But the full list is here. Long list. Footnoted.
http://www.kraftlaw.com/Articles/Hypocrites.htm
HYPOCRITES OF “TORT REFORM”
By Emily Gottlieb
Deputy Director, Center for Justice & Democracy
INTRODUCTION
No one likes a hypocrite. Yet one would be hard pressed to find more hypocrites than in the “tort reform” movement. Take a look at the record of a host of lawmakers, lobbyists and even journalists who complain about lawsuits and argue that the rights of injured consumers to go to court should be scaled back because we are too “litigious.” Yet when they or family members are hurt and need compensation for their own injuries, often minor ones, these same individuals do not hesitate to use the courts to obtain compensation, to right a wrong, to hold a wrongdoer accountable or to obtain justice. The same is true for corporations that have funded the “tort reform” movement. These companies support efforts to immunize themselves from liability for harming consumers. But when these same companies believe they have been wronged by a business competitor, they are the first to sue.
In this report we take a look at the cases of several proponents of tort restrictions who do not “practice what they preach.” We examine individuals who have sued sometimes for millions of dollars while at the same time championing damage caps and other severe liability restrictions for others. We also look at corporate litigants who have lent financial or other support to groups like the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), the Manhattan Institute and state business coalitions like New Yorkers for Civil Justice Reform (NYCJR). [1] Notably, tort restrictions advocated by these organizations virtually never limit the rights of corporations to sue business competitors for commercial losses. This list is by no means exhaustive but merely representative of businesses and other “tort reformers” who say one thing but do another when it comes to the civil justice system.
INDIVIDUAL HYPOCRITES
George W. Bush....
(Pack a lunch)
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thanks glenn
You are tops. Please post some more details about the book, it's release and your schedule for it's promotion.
- zs
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More On Golf
Referring to the description of Bill Clinton hitting a drive and reaching for a mulligan in one smooth motion: he is not a golfer and was never a player.
I've played a number of rounds at the Cape Arundel course in Kennebunkport. George W. Bush didn't look like a player there either.
Golf, at its best, is non-denominational, non-partisan, and politically incorrect, all at the same time.
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"he is not a golfer and was never a player"
That depends on what the definition of was is.
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@W.E.S.
That's a definite touche ...
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Shooter Hates America and The Founders
Hmmmm. Which aspect of Bork's suit is the "nothing" for which you insinuate he unfairly expects "something"?
-- shooter242
So does Bork and all so-called "conservatives".
Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty. Without them we have no other fortification against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and clothed like swine and hounds.
—John Adams, 1774
Maybe you should watch that HBO special on Adams. Then again, it may suck -- depending on whether a liberal or so called "conservative" wote, directed and produced it.
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What...
What will the hyperkinetic Bush do now. Someone has stood up to him. He will have to do more than bluster and blow to get his way. THANK GOD!!!
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"What terrorist would be stupid enough to use a phone anyway?"
Eliot Spitzer?
There are plenty of White Collar criminals on Wall Street who thought he was a terrorist. They did more damage to America than Spitzer ever did. They still are. Compared to them OBL is a piker, a rank amateur.
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@ Aycharaych
[to our resident eedjit troll]: Does that smoking hole in your foot hurt?
http://tinyurl.com/2uaubv
Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages,...
Save your breath, HRH. Sh**ter's intentionally obtuse.
Cheers,