US trial lawyers and President Bush

The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) really doesn’t like President George W Bush. Its latest press release begins “Like a jack-in-the-box repeatedly springing up to spout nonsense, President George W Bush has again blamed so-called ‘junk lawsuits’ for rising health care costs, despite a mountain of evidence – from sources ranging from the Congressional Budget Office to the Harvard School of Public Health – showing Bush’s claim to demonstrably false.”