I am restricted from calling Ronald McDonald to the stand, your Honor: The House voted in legislation that would ban lawsuits from blaming fast food companies for contributing to obesity. Verbal Jazz sees these types of lawsuits as similar to suing an automaker for causing a highway fatality while going 100MPH in their vehicle: a waste of time blaming someone else for your own mistake. Or suing Anheuser-Busch for making beer that gets people drunk. Verbal Jazz also sees that this is something that courts could work out on their own. Democrats are fuming because they have to challenge anything that has Republican support (and vice-versa): even if it were advocating a national "Hug your momma day." For their part this attempted ban fits in well with the Republican mantra of: "tort reform, tort reform, tort reform." Tort reform is shorthand for "big corporations should not have to worry about peons like you earning damages for their mistakes." Now, go on, hug your momma, it's still the bipartisan thing to do.

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