The "trial lawyer" boogeyman is a hard sell these days

I guess wingnut pols keep spewing the same memes time and time again because they just don't have anything better to put up. Sort of like how former almost-Speaker Bob Livingston (R-phonesex) used to always refer to the People's Republic of China as "Red China" well into the 1990s. Or how, even now, Vitty-Cent (R-hookers) still uses the "hollywood liberal" meme.

Here on the Gulf Coast, the "greedy trial lawyers" meme is a dog that won't hunt anymore. All too many people know that their only hope of getting money back from their insurance carriers is an attorney. Others will gladly join class action suits over the flooding in Jefferson Parish and the poisoning of residents of FEMA trailers.

The latest Washington use of the trial-lawyer meme is over the FISA legislation. Wingnuts argue that Dems don't want to give amnesty to Telecommunications companies because they want to put a lot of money in the pockets of trial lawyers.

As mcjoan points out at Daily Kos, Republicans spend a lot of money on trial lawyers themselves. And it's not always money well-spent, given how many of them are ending up in prison these days.