The Raleigh Dim-wit

            Well, whaddaya know. The North Carolina legislature passed a whole bunch of laws that I agree with.  I'll list just three.

            One law caps non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits at $500,000. Tort lawyers will no longer be able to persuade pliable juries to award millions of dollars for things like pain and suffering. This will help control runaway costs of malpractice insurance that are, of course, passed on to the rest of us.

            The legislature had to override Governor's Perdue's veto to get this law passed.

            A second law reins in state government bureaucrats' power to issue regulations that go even beyond federal government regulations that we all know are already out of control. Doing business in North Carolina is difficult enough without our state government making it even tougher.

            The legislature had to override Governor Perdue's veto to get this law passed, as well.

            A third law requires city and state governments to verify job applicants' legal status before hiring them. Shouldn't they have been doing that already?

            Governor Perdue apparently didn't have an answer to that question.         

            The governor did make the news in one other area, though. She is quoted as saying, "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover."

            How do we characterize such a statement? Stupid, naive, ignorant, brainless, unhinged, laughable? All of the above, I think.

            Anybody who voted for this dim-wit should be embarrassed. Fortunately, there is no chance that the next North Carolina gubernatorial election will be suspended.