Shame on the Dems who voted to limit Class Actions

[Sandpiper]

Senate bill S. 5 was a GOP gift to big business, and part of Bushco's effort to insulate corporations from the harm they cause.

According to Tom Carpenter, (D-DE) the reason for this bill was

"is to make sure when companies are called on the carpet, when they are involved in a class action litigation, they're in a court, in a courthouse with a judge where the companies have a fair shake, where the odds, the decks aren't stacked against them,"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/02/10/national/w123626S32.DTL

That's right, according to Senator Carpenter, the problem with our justice system is that the corporations just can't get a fair shake.

Shame on the 18 Democrats who went to the mat for the tobacco, insurance, drug, and chemical companies who were this bill's biggest supporters.

Bayh (D-IN)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
:puke:

[David Dunham]

1. Very bad news for plaintiffs' lawyers. Their game is over.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Since when did the big and powerful corporations need "protection"?

:argh:

[ultraist]

3. Way to stick to our core values of supporting regular Americans!

These names keep coming up! Centrist, Repuke lite voting doesn't win Democratic support.

Bayh (D-IN)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Nelson (D-NE)
Salazar (D-CO)