Bush: "Frivolous lawsuit = legal action filed by somebody else’s lawyers."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

The Overlitigated Election
President Bush scores political points criticizing trial lawyers while his own party’s legal eagles try to disenfranchise voters

By Melinda Henneberger

Newsweek
Updated: 10:24 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2004

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6353698/site/newsweek/

Oct. 28 - President George W. Bush wants to make tort reform a top priority in a second term. Using the term “trial lawyer’’ as a pejorative, he talks a lot about the craziness of our overlitigated lives.

Which is funny, coming from a guy who litigated his way to the White House. But the president seems to have defined a frivolous lawsuit as any legal action filed by somebody else’s lawyers.

He certainly voiced no objection to the Republicans who have, according to The Washington Post, already filed more than 35,000 legal challenges to voters’ eligibility in Ohio alone. The GOP plans to send thousands of volunteers into polling places to personally challenge “voters they suspect are not eligible, particularly hundreds of thousands of the newly registered.’’

And when the president talks about the high cost of unnecessary lawsuits yet ignores the damage being done by his own personal full-employment program for lawyers, he only validates what John Edwards (that trial lawyer!) has been arguing for the last two years in his “Two Americas” speech. There do seem to be two sets of rules in Bush’s America: one for him and his, and another for everybody else.

[Supersedeas]

1. for the President...it is ALWAYS the other guy who is wrong

[The Chronicler]

2. Bush hates the Constitution.