Still, the GOP did accomplish some things for the good of the legal system: the Class Action Fairness Act, two excellent justices appointed to the Supreme Court, and administrative agency action against the upside-down federalism of trial lawyers. One can wish the GOP had done more (and criticize it for caving on the disastrous Sarbanes-Oxley bill and other expansions of tort law), but, given the ability of ATLA to block reform efforts in the Senate, the GOP did perhaps close to the most that could reasonably be hoped for.

I’ve mentioned this before here and the response was a lame “Tort reform is hard!” defense of Republicans.

Perhaps if this blog and others interested in tort reform had pressured the Republican to actually do something in the way of tort reform, instead of ignoring their inaction and bashing Dems, reform might have happened.

Oh, well. Maybe in 2016 — after the Clinton/Obama presidency ends — there’ll be another chance.