Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...by WILL FOLKS***After getting beaten like rented mules during this year’s legislation session by South Carolina’s über-liberal trial lawyer lobby, two pillars of the Palmetto State’s so-called “business community” are reportedly joining forces. The S.C. Chamber of Commerce and the S.C. Manufacturers’ Alliance will combine to form a single entity, multiple sources familiar with the impending merger have confirmed to FITSNews. ***Trial lawyers outspent, out-flanked and out-worked the “business community” – although scrutiny of their efforts is ramping up in the aftermath of their decisive victory. On the ideological left, they are facing an existential threat from an empowered trial lawyer lobby. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina.