The Lawyers Party

[Tommy Gun]

I thought this was an interesting perspective on party differences...

Think about it carefully.

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party.

Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and
Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former
Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer, and so is his wife,
Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school
(although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice-presidential
nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.
Look at the Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in
each house is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice
President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt
Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator;
and, Dick Armey was an economist.
House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a
lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart
surgeon. Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?
Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the
Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against
Ronald Reagan in 1976.

The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers.

Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and
Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse
themselves in history, like Gingrich.

The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods
and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And
so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of
the Lawyers Party, grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical
companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food
restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone
producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the
eyes of lawyers. Lawyers try to solve problems by successfully
representing their clients, in this case the American people.
Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits,
they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers
always parse language to favor their side. Confined to the narrow
practice of law, that is fine.

But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When
politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and
other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal
system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become
'adverse parties' of our very government. We are not all
litigants in some vast social class-action suit..
We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of
freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial
decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in
all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws
and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and
unchecked.

When the most important decision for our next president is whom he
will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law
in America is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a
continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the
lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers
in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in
order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are
planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has
become crushing.

We cannot expect the Lawyers Party to provide real change, real
reform, or real hope in America .

Most Americans know that a republic in which every major
government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not
what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we
cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our
defenders. Most Americans understand that more lawyers and judges
will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of
enterprise in our economy.

Perhaps Americans will come to understand that change cannot be
brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate
American society and business.

Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths
of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work.
Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with
more power will only make our problems worse.

[ROGUE]

Very interesting. Scary

[cigdaze]

Lawyers & welfare recipients. Good company.

Seriously, though, that's very interesting indeed. Good post.

[bootdaddy]

Interesting, accurate and sad piece. In some ways, I hope one of my children decide to pursue a career as a lawyer under the premise...If you can't beat them, join them.

I have spent a great deal of money on a wide variety of lawyers and think the whole system stinks, but have not other choice when trying to structure protection in our business environment.

Reminds me of the old joke: "What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?" ans. A good start! Always trying to bring it back to the water...

[clayinaustin]

Good post. Just think about it... When has a lawyer EVER created wealth? Never! They only redistribute wealth!

If a lawyer have never created wealth and has only redistributed it, then how can anyone expect a "lawyer turned politician" to do anything expect tax the rich and give it to the poor, i.e. wealth redistribution!

Insanity!

[Sea-Dated]

When has a lawyer EVER created wealth? Never! They only redistribute wealth!

No true, they have no problem creating wealth for themselves at the expense of others pain and suffering.

[TOMTBONE]

My step farther is a lawyer, also X CIA. He hates Dems more than I do.....not all Lawyers are that bad....

BTW Megyn Kelly is a lawyer toooo......The chick on Fox

[clayinaustin]

My step farther is a lawyer, also X CIA. He hates Dems more than I do.....not all Lawyers are that bad....

I don't have a problem with lawyers. They have their place. My sisters is a lawyer.

I just have a problems with a "lawyer turned politician". They are all crooks!