{"id":2835,"date":"2004-10-22T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2835.html"},"modified":"2004-10-22T11:57:12","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T16:57:12","slug":"more-like-the-quality-of-the-campaign-is-deteriorating-because-of-junk-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/more-like-the-quality-of-the-campaign-is-deteriorating-because-of-junk-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"More like, &#8216;The quality of the campaign is deteriorating because of junk rhetoric&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush is back to the one issue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/10\/20041021-15.html\">he really cares about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The effects of the litigation culture are real in the state of Pennsylvania&#8230;. The quality of life is deteriorating because of the junk lawsuits.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does he mean cases like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.johnkerry.com\/blog\/archives\/003588.html#003588\">this one<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1999, Rick Santorum testified in his wife&#8217;s $500,000 medical malpractice case against a chiropractor. Mrs. Santorum claimed she suffered back injuries caused by her chiropractor and said her injuries hurt her husband&#8217;s re-election campaign. Although her medical costs totaled $18,800, she also sought &#8220;pain and suffering&#8221; and anticipated future medical costs. When all was said and done, she got $350,000 \u2013 although a judge eventually reduced the award to $175,000. Just a few years prior, Santorum said: &#8220;While we may have people, individuals, who hit the jackpot and win the lottery in some cases, that is not exactly what our legal system should be designed to do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/feature2.cfm\/ID\/4286\">this one<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> [W]hen it comes to solving problems involving his own family, Bush heads straight to court. In 1999, Bush sued Enterprise Rent-A-Car over a minor fender-bender involving one of his daughters in which no one was hurt. Although his insurance would have covered the repair costs, making a lawsuit unnecessary, Bush sought additional money from Enterprise, which had rented a car to someone with a suspended license.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush is back to the one issue he really cares about. &#8220;The effects of the litigation culture are real in the state of Pennsylvania&#8230;. The quality of life is deteriorating because of the junk lawsuits.&#8221; Does he mean cases like this one? In 1999, Rick Santorum testified in his wife&#8217;s $500,000 medical malpractice case against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}