Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Lawyers' Party



This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way.
The Lawyers' Party 
By Bruce Walker

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party . 
Barack Obama is a lawyer. 
Michelle Obama is a lawyer. 
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.. Bill Clinton is a lawyer. 
John Edwards is a lawyer. 
Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.
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 leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: 
Harry Reid is a lawyer. 
Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer. 

The Republican Party is different. 
President Bush is a businessman. 
Vice President Cheney is a businessman. 
The leaders of the Republican Revolution: 
Newt Gingrich was a history professor. 
Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist. 
House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer. 
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,
who are often the targets of lawyers. 

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 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 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 intuit
that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the
spirit of enterprise in our economy. 

Perhaps Americans will 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. 

The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers!
Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in
the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as
spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you
and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This
legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party.
When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers
Association goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for
our medical and product costs being so high! 

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