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For everyone and anyone who is griping, whining or complaining about Joe Lieberman keeping his chairmanship or dumbfounded that Hillary Clinton may be our next Secretary of State, I have only one thing to say: The proof is in the pudding.
There are a lot of things that Obama could do to prove he is going to change things. Any choice of one thing would necessarily limit or eliminate the choices of something else. Someone might not like it. The old politics was not to lead, rather not to ruffle feathers. Cut the deal, favor the friends, reward your supporters.
Obama is changing the rules. Obama is determined to change politics in this country and if he can change politics, he just might be able to change other things like the economy, or healthcare.
But, I am fine with him starting with politics, since that is the only thing he can change before he takes office on January 20, 2009. I would be fine it he locked the doors of the capital and told them to go home. I would gladly give him 60 days as supreme dictator if that is what it took to see if someone in this country could bring about change! Radical! You bet. Am I serious? I sure am. Of course, I know Obama is not going to do that. My radicalism is safe, but…..
I am smelling change. I am high on it, just like glue. I demand it. I need more of it. I will do anything to insure that we have more change.
Change has its own danger. Appointing Hillary could be a big mistake. But, I voted for Obama. I wanted him to have a mandate for change. I am going to support his decisions. My bet is that if Hillary doesn’t mind her manners, she will be replaced. And soon!!
I would like to personally grab Joe Lieberman by the nape of the neck and kick his ass down the steps of the capital, one step at a time. He is a sorry sack of crap, a weasel, a scummy little sucker of opportunities and I hope he loses when he runs for re-election in 4 years.
But, if Obama can use his sorry carcass and wants him to keep his position of leadership, then he has my blessings. He can always be discarded later when he is all used up.
Everything Obama does proves to me he is a leader. He is going to bring change whether we like it or not. We are going to change, even if we go kicking and screaming.
After all, isn’t this what we said we wanted!! Ain’t it?
It looks like Alaska has elected a Democrat to the Senate, Mark Begich.
That is Democratic Senator No. 56. I think!
Here is another link to Billo, that would not embed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtxDs3Rk_vE
Sorry, you will have to cut and paste for now.
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! There is Justice for the common man, in spite of our misguided, special interest controlled Republican legislature and Governor!!!!
What is all this about? CAPS are dead. Dead. Dead! DEAD! (Well, practically speaking, anyway!)
Many of you may be living in ignorance, but listen up, and you shall hear, a story as significant as that of Paul Revere, the freedom rider.
In 2005, within months of gaining a stranglehold majority on the Georgia Legislature, the Republican leadership and Governor Perdue repaid their campaign promises to the Chamber of Commerce, the doctor lobby and the insurance companies by depriving the citizens of Georgia of the right to hold negligent doctors fully responsible for the harm they cause. They did it by enacting, as the very first piece of litigation, a bill infamously referred to as “tort reform,” SB-5. That piece of legislation was rammed down the throats even of the Republicans who knew it was bad legislation, no amendments were allowed, vote up or down, and don’t ask questions.
One of those provisions said this:
In any verdict returned or judgment entered in a medical malpractice action, including an action for wrongful death, against one or more health care providers, the total amount recoverable by a claimant for noneconomic damages in such action shall be limited to an amount not to exceed $350,000.00, regardless of the number of defendant health care providers against whom the claim is asserted or the number of separate causes of action on which the claim is based. Official Code of Georgia 15-13-1 (b)
(Note: This is only a portion of the statute. There are other provisions which allow this amount to increase to just over $! million in limited cases, but not in suits where you sue just one doctor.)
So, no matter if you were a quadriplegic, unable to move anything other than your eyeballs as a result of a doctor’s negligence, those wise fools in the legislature decided that you couldn’t possibly be entitled to more than $350,000 for pain and suffering, even if you lived and suffered for 40 more years in that condition.
To add insult to injury, the bastards applied this law only to medical malpractice lawsuits. It a truck driver put you in that condition, there was no limitation.
Well, it took over 3 years but on April 30, 2008, a Superior Court Judge in Fulton County declared the limitation on non-economic damages to be unconstitutional. It was not surprising when the insurance company appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court of Georgia. The case was scheduled for argument before the Supreme Court before the end of the year, but that will never happen. Why?
A couple of days ago, the insurance company chickened out, decided they would probably lose in the Supreme Court and rather than have the statute declared unconstitutional, they settled the case with the injured person. I don’t blame the injured person for taking the settlement (which by the way is super confidential, a secret).
What does all this mean? It means:
(1) The insurance company can still tell everyone that Georgia has caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases.
(2) Lawyers know that the insurance companies are chicken and will be more likely to pursue cases without regard to the caps.
(3) Some lawyer, some where is going to get the same issue in front of another judge in the state and it will get to the Supreme Court for a final decision.
(4) The Chamber of Commerce and the insurance companies are going to focus their attention on judicial appointments and hopefully get the people they want on our Courts before the case gets there again.
(5) YOU AND EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU NEED TO BE VIGILANT IN WHO YOU VOTE FOR IN JUDICIAL RACES, PARTICULARLY ON THE COURT OF APPEALS AND SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA.
Sorry for the commercial at the beginning. Corporate America is ubiquitous.
Watching Sarah Palin last night brought to my memory a Proverb. I am not sure why I remembered it, but I seem to recall a discussion in a Bible study group years ago. Anyway, here goes.
If you think Sarah Palin is just a good ole girl, down home, and straight forward, well, you should consider Proverbs 16:30 - Those who wink with their eyes are plotting perversity; those who purse their lips are bent on evil. (NIV)
The King James Version says: He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass…
The Message: A shifty eye betrays an evil intention; a clenched jaw signals trouble ahead.
And, if you are interested, I got this off the internet from Crosswalk.com.
As an update on my post of the interview with the Georgia Right to Life concerning the judicial questionaire, you might be interested that one of the candidates for the Court of Appeals, Chris McFadden, has responded to the request to complete the judicial-questionaire.
His response makes sense.
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