http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=347B803F-F4D2-5193-61211DD1BBE34130

NOW:

"Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott and his wife sued State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. to force the insurer to pay for damage to their house in Pascagoula on the Gulf of Mexico, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina."
- Wall Street Journal, 12/16/05

THEN:

"The Democrats seem to think that the answer is a lawsuit. Sue everybody."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 7/20/01

"I'm among many Mississippi citizens who believe tort reform is needed."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 5/8/02

"You know, obviously we should [enact tort reform]...Someday it will happen, and the sooner the better."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 1/24/01

" Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi today credited the agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and tort reform initiatives passed by the Congress and signed into law by President Bush with the overall upturn in the national economy."
- Sen. Trent Lott press release, 12/2/05

"If their answer to everything is more lawsuits, then yes, that's a problem, because I certainly don't support that."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 8/2/02

"It's sue, sue, sue... That's not the answer."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 8/4/01

12/16/2005 1:51:27 PM

property damage torts != negligence torts

I disagree with tort reform in general, but that was a pretty bad apples-oranges comparison...

12/16/2005 1:56:21 PM

Well, was the insurer failing to uphold their end of the policy? Not enough information.

12/16/2005 2:03:26 PM

well see, it really doesn't matter, because lott has repeatedly talked shit about LAWSUITS without giving any restrictions

12/16/2005 2:30:00 PM

Im glad the insurance money is going to rich senators who can afford lawsuits.

12/16/2005 2:42:39 PM

DG, this is fucking retarded. It's not like the man ever said he wanted to get rid of lawsuits, or that there were no such thing as appropriate lawsuits, or anything of the sort.

Without knowing the details of the case, it's entirely possible that he's not being a hypocrite at all. You have a thousand examples of that sort of thing that are infinitely superior to this one. Use one of those.

12/16/2005 5:08:03 PM

Lott may not be a hypocrite in this regard, but Rick Santorum certainly is.

12/16/2005 5:54:35 PM