TX Attorney General is planning to file suit against HCR

[Craftsman]

Greg Abbott Just got off the AG conference call. We agreed that a multi-state lawsuit would send the strongest signal. We plan to file the moment Obama signs the bill. I anticipate him signing it tomorrow. Check back for an update at that time. I will post a link to the lawsuit when it is filed. It will lay out why the bill i...s unconstitutional and tramples individual and states rights.

http://www.facebook.com/TexansForAbbott/posts/107160575974748

[my2sense]

1. Not surprised by this as Good Hair was also speaking of

seceding.

I'm afraid this is going to get worse before it's all said and done.

[Xenotime]

2. It won't win. Too much momentum and support for it.

They can piss and moan all they want. We won.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. The repugs are going to throw a lot of "frivilous" law suits against this and see if they can

get one to stick.

The fight ain't over.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. A Good Reason to Vote for Barbara Radnofsky This Fall

Right-winger Abbot's opposition to health care reform is an excellent reason for Texas voters to vote for Democratic candidate Barbara Radnofsky this fall for Texas state attorney general.

:D

:dem:

:patriot:

[MrsBrady]

9. +10,000,000,000,000,000

[Rage Inc.]

5. How long before Orly Taitz gets involved?

You know it's gonna happen!

[DCBob]

6. These cases will probably follow the same path as the "birther" lawsuits..

The path to nowhere..

[Lyric]

7. Too early, and he knows it.

It's stupid to file a suit right now. Nobody's been injured yet, therefore nobody has standing to file.

[KharmaTrain]

11. But It's Not Too Early To Make Political Noise

and that's what all these "suits" are about. This bill falls along the same lines as Social Security and Income Tax...and the court has upheld those. The GOOP believes this bill is so unpopular that they can run on it and make money off it. They're about to find out that a majority of people are now breathing a sigh of relief that this battle is almost over and want to move onto other things. Come November, the only people who will want to repeal this bill are the wingnuts and their corporate puppetmasters.

[mwb970]

8. I don't see how undoing HCR can gain any traction.

Won't the Repealers be forced to advocate allowing insurance corporation death panels to once again deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions, or the CEO's profit-making whims? Will they advocate re-opening the "doughnut hole", raising prescription prices for seniors? Throwing young adults off their parents' insurance plans? Taking insurance away from 30 million people?

These don't seem like winning propositions. Remember li'l bush's 60-city tour about eliminating Social Security? The polls were more against him after the tour than before. The same thing will happen if the republicans fight to repeal what will become a very popular reform once people start to see its real effects (and to not see the crazily improbable outcomes predicted by fear-mongering conservatives).

[Kalyke]

10. Wouldn't it be ironic if they filed suite and the judge

agreed with them, but ONLY because it forces Americans to purchase a service from a private company and that the only way to remedy it was for the government to create a public option?

:rofl:

[tanyev]

12. You mean paralyzed Greg Abbott, who's probably a big user of his taxpayer-funded health insurance?

Greg Abbott, who sued big-time over the accident that left him paralyzed and is now a champion of tort reform? Color me shocked.


When a 75-foot oak tree snapped and fell, crippling a jogger named Greg Abbott in July 1984, he did what most Texans would do: He sued the owner of the tree. A few months later, Abbott's attorney also sued the tree-trimming company that had worked on the giant oak, and within a year, the homeowner, the tree company, their insurance companies and Abbott had agreed to an out-of-court settlement that would pay Abbott's current and future medical bills and compensate him for mental anguish and for some of the income he lost because of the accident.

Abbott hired Don Riddle, a well-regarded trial lawyer, to sue the homeowner and later the arborist on Abbott's behalf. Abbott says the tree was known to be rotting and dangerous and that the tree company was brought in because it knew about the problem—not because it was a rich target. The lawyers on the other side don't remember admitting the tree was rotten, but say there was a battle of experts on that issue. One of them, Dick Ellis, says "you don't want to go to court with the defendants shooting at each other." And the victim was extremely sympathetic: Abbott didn't do anything wrong, was a young, married uninsured attorney about to start work in a big firm and begin a lucrative career. The risk of going to court was too great, Ellis said. They worked out a deal.

The settlement wasn't filed in public records at the court and Abbott wouldn't reveal the details. Lawyers familiar with the case recalled it was a "structured annuity" meant to pay installments over several years. It did not include punitive damages, but probably did include non-economic damages—some compensation just for going through a terrible accident, the rehab that followed and the lifelong confinement to a wheelchair. Another attorney said Abbott and Riddle didn't "abuse the system" to try to get a bigger settlement, but they also didn't leave anything out.

http://texasweekly.com/newsletter/tw20020218.html

[tsuki]

13. That's it. Spend the taxpayers' money on your political agenda and let

the roads and bridges fail. Lay off police and fire fighters. Close your schools, and throw your seniors to the wolves. Demonize the 25% of your state that does not have health care as "those" people.

Do what's important. INSURE THAT THERE IS NO SOCIAL SAFETY NET.

Yee-Hah