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Ironically, the "legislation [...] to try to prevent those sorts of abuses from happening again" in the Halliburton case was voted against by thirty GOP senators. Which was kind of the whole reason for the thread bump.

Sadly, Gbaji refuses to discuss that and would rather use some delusional notion about Acorn as his shield. So long as he can keep screaming "ACORN!!" over and over again and pretend that no one has condemned it, he can remain willfully blind to what his party is doing. If he hadn't been doing it for weeks, you could almost convince yourself that the first twenty times he ignored people saying "Congress was right to defund Acorn" were on accident.

Edited, Oct 20th 2009 10:53pm by Jophiel

gbaji was so angry at Acorn, he started to harass random squirrels in the park.

Man, both of my damn senators? How come my state has to be part of the pro-rape lobby?

I knew you'd jump on this point, which is why I left it out there.

They voted against it because the legislation is too broad. It effectively means that anyone can shut down any private contractor doing business with the government simply by suing them. Don't we have enough problems with litigation gone awry? This will only fuel the fire as every liberal legal organization in the country will start filing lawsuits against any corporations they don't like, knowing that win or lose, those companies will not be able to get funding while the lawsuits are in play.

More relevantly, it'll be used as yet another lever to force unlegislated mandates on companies. Simply by threatening to sue unless they do X, Y, and Z, they can force companies to do what they want. We have far too many of these sorts of non-legislated regulation being done behind closed doors, this would create a huge new one.


Tell you what though. If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander, right? How about we expand that to any organization receiving *any* funding from the US government, contract or not. Want to see every Democrat in office leave skid marks to vote against that kind of bill? Can you guess why?



A better approach would be to restrict funds based on actual legal results, not merely the presence of a challenge. If a company is found to have been involved directly in illegal activities of a specific set, then their funding and/or contracts are suspended. Let's punish people for what they actually do, not what someone claims they do. We are supposed to have an "innocent until proven guilty" assumption in our legal system, right?

No, it's not. That's pure bullshit. Halliburton is "threatened to be shut down" every time someone sues them? Really? Does the company have a legal department of one intern whose job it also is to run the entire company?


This is hilarious because it proves what I already knew: You don't read the legislation, you only have knee-jerk partisan responses to it that boil down to "Protect the GOP!!"



The legislation plainly states that the government won't do business with a company whose policy is to require arbitration in cases involving the set criteria. Not that anyone suing the company means they stop getting paid. If you're a company, you just allow employees to access the court system if they want to sue you rather than binding them to an arbitration process as a result of their employment.

Honestly, Gbaji. The legislation was only one paragraph long. Are you that unwilling to read something rather than just fucking make up what it says to appeal to your bias?


Fine by me. Call Mitch McConnell and have him place that onto the next bill. Tell me how it goes. Oh wait! If it doesn't happen, I'm going to say "Want to guess why???"

But, hey, excellent job of completely missing the point, lying about what the bill says AND defending your precious Halliburton all in one short post!

You think he'll admit he interpreted it wrong?

I'm guessing no.

That wasn't even "interpreting" it wrong. That was plain "not reading it and just making up what you bet it says". How do you interpret that paragraph to read what Gbaji claims it says? By huffing paint?