Hey “Tort Reform” Groups – Time to Go Away Now!

Cross posted from The Pop Tort by Andy Hoffman

Check out this article in the Madison County/St. Claire Record (a newspaper owned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) for a great description of how Obama’s win last night is fabulous news for the civil justice system—only be forewarned, because it’s written by someone from the right-wing (and obviously out-of-touch) Manhattan Institute you’ll have to translate the semi-Orwellian language.  So, when you read something like “Efforts to restore fairness and balance to the nation’s courts could take a giant step backward,” know that you’re actually reading something like “Cruel efforts to deny injured consumers access to the courts may be headed for the scrap heap!”

While you’re at it, also check out this entertaining UPI article that shows how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (recent blog links here and here) is now trying to make nice with Obama, U.S. Senators and other members of Congress it tried to defeat.  The Chamber went from “deploying nearly 600 staffers to key states, spending millions of dollars on ads, sending 15 million emails and 6.5 million pieces of mail, and making more than 6 million phone calls,” to curling up like a lapdog, pledging to “play a helpful role in the transition process.” 

Let’s hope their “helpful role” consists of going away now.