While a lot has been made over Congressman Joe Wilson’s heckling of Barack Obama last night, the entire Democrat congress booed George W. Bush during his State of the Union address back in 2005:
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A lot of people and not just democrats were upset about Bush’s Social Security speech. I didn’t see democrats booing but I did see some dems clapping at the end… I don’t see it. No one is yelling rude comments but then we never found the weapons of mass destruction either…..
And the fact of the matter is that Obama wasn’t lying. This is just not my opinion but the opinion of independent fact checkers as well. All three of the plans before congress have been vetted for keeping illegal aliens out of the plan. Will some slip through the cracks….almost certainly but that will be very hard to prevent on any plan of this nature.
Typical of the hypocritical bastards.
NO ONE is saying preserve the status quo. NO ONE! We are saying we want TORT REFORM, we want INTERSTATE ACCESS to health insurance, we want SOME REGULATION and STRICT OVERSIGHT of insurance company tactics, we want them to DETECT, INVESTIGATE, and ELIMINATE the fraud, corruption, and inefficiencies in the current social programs of SS, Medicare, Medicaid, VA Services, and all social programs and agencies currently operating. We want Congress and the President to THROW THEIR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS UNDER THE BUS, and actually do something for the American citizens, for a CHANGE WE CAN SUPPORT. Stop protecting those big supporters of your re-election, who promise you the means to increase YOUR OWN wealth and power. Show some integrity in doing the job the people have elected you to do.
Tort Reform is politically motivated and only benefits the corporations because lawsuits are sometimes the ONLY way the consumer can get justice!
Case in point: The McDonald’s “Hot Coffee” lawsuit. Even though this case was decided in August of 1994, for many Americans it continues to represent the “problem” with our civil justice system.
The business community and insurance industry have done much to perpetuate this case. They don’t want us to forget it. They know it helps them convince politicians that “tort reform” and other restrictions on juries is needed. And worse, they know it poisons the minds of citizens who sit on juries.
Unfortunately, not all the facts have been communicated – facts that put the case and the monetary award to the 81-year old plaintiff in a significantly different light.
According to the Wall Street Journal, McDonald’s callousness was the issue and even jurors who thought the case was just a tempest in a coffee pot were overwhelmed by the evidence against the Corporation.
The facts of the case, which caused a jury of six men and six women to find McDonald’s coffee was unreasonably dangerous and had caused enough human misery and suffering that no one should be made to suffer exposure to such excessively hot coffee again, will shock and amaze you:
McFact No. 1: For years, McDonald’s had known they had a problem with the way they make their coffee – that their coffee was served much hotter (at least 20 degrees more so) than at other restaurants.
McFact No. 2: McDonald’s knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries – more than 700 incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation – and yet they never so much as consulted a burn expert regarding the issue.
McFact No. 3: The woman involved in this infamous case suffered very serious injuries – third degree burns on her groin, thighs and buttocks that required skin grafts and a seven-day hospital stay.
McFact No. 4: The woman, an 81-year old former department store clerk who had never before filed suit against anyone, said she wouldn’t have brought the lawsuit against McDonald’s had the Corporation not dismissed her request for compensation for medical bills.
McFact No. 5: A McDonald’s quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn’t think it was possible.
McFact No. 6: After careful deliberation, the jury found McDonald’s was liable because the facts were overwhelmingly against the company. When it came to the punitive damages, the jury found that McDonald’s had engaged in willful, reckless, malicious, or wanton conduct, and rendered a punitive damage award of 2.7 million dollars. (The equivalent of just two days of coffee sales, McDonalds Corporation generates revenues in excess of 1.3 million dollars daily from the sale of its coffee, selling 1 billion cups each year.)
McFact No. 7: On appeal, a judge lowered the award to $480,000, a fact not widely publicized in the media.
McFact No. 8: A report in Liability Week, September 29, 1997, indicated that Kathleen Gilliam, 73, suffered first degree burns when a cup of coffee spilled onto her lap. Reports also indicate that McDonald’s consistently keeps its coffee at 185 degrees, still approximately 20 degrees hotter than at other restaurants. Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds, requiring skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability to the victims for many months, and in some cases, years.
The most important message this case has for you, the consumer, is to be aware of the potential danger posed by your early morning pick-me-up. Take extra care to make sure children do not come into contact with scalding liquid, and always look to the facts before rendering your decision about any publicized case.
http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm
Well, I listened carefully.
I did hear some murmurs of discontent. I didn’t hear 200+ Democrats standing up and booing.
I did notice that only a minute later the POTUS got a standing ovation.
And we’re supposed to believe that half of these people were actively booing sixty seconds earlier?
just common sense, if you order hot coffee expect it is hot not cold.
It’ the same double standards that the left hold near and dear to their hearts. Left fringe can hold up signs saying that “The only good soldier is a dead soldier”, and the “mainstream media” dosen’t cover the story. But when real Americans go out to protest BIG GOVERNMENT we are called un-American by our BIG GOVERNMENT House Speaker nonetheless!!
The left says capatawizm baaad! sowchawizm goood! Be vewy, vewy qwiat, wew hunting Amarwicans wif Micawl Mooore.
I have somewhat of a memory of the Bush booing incident from the news coverage I had seen, and it seems that incident was made a big deal out of.
OH how we forget, At this writing dumbocrats are demanding that joe wilson go to the senate floor and apologize again, when he should not have apologized the first time. The booing that was done to president Bush at one of his senate addresses was swept under the rug and no apology was demanded or freely given.