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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Administrator says:
Republican Party is a Chickenhawk Chickenshit Party of warmongering douchebags.
Just sayin
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11th December 2012 at 8:40 pm
Roy says:
The fact that the Democrats are overwhelmed with lawyers may be the biggest. difference between them. Fascism is a joint partnership between Corporations and Government, however both are junior partners to the banks.
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11th December 2012 at 9:25 pm
Jackson says:
As someone who’s spent a lot of time listening to lawyers trying to make their cause appear the better, I think Roy’s implication that lawyers are in large part responsible for America’s trouble is a compelling analysis.
For too many lawyers winning trumps cooperation and issues are more important than people.
Worse, despite their belief of being independent gunslingers, most all are obedient followers of the status quo. If there are any fee-fie-fo-fum lawyers who instinctively hate bankers, those mavericks, like Gerry Spence, have been marginalized.
And, as for judges, all of whom are lawyers, and who make up the third branch of the government of elites who control this country, …. (comments deleted by censor).
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11th December 2012 at 9:31 pm
AKAnon says:
I concur w/ Jackson. I knew lawyers ran DC, but I did not realize it was as one-sided as Roy has shown (caveat-I am taking Roy’s data at face value-have not yet fact-checked). That lawyers are a huge (if not the major) problem with this country is an understatement. Old Willie was right. What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.
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11th December 2012 at 9:52 pm
Roy says:
I would like PETA to sponsor a law to prohibit the use of rats in experiments and replace rats with lawyers. I don’t think anyone would object except lawyers and they object to anything that isn’t in their self interest.
You wouldn’t have the problem of the lab personnel getting attached to them.
There are probably more rats than lawyers but lawyers are more accessible and if you ran short there is a suitable substitute, CPA.
It would be in the “National Interest” if we used the lawyers in congress first and then lawyers in government and politics.
And there are some things a rat won’t do.
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11th December 2012 at 10:25 pm
Kill Bill says:
Roy, you forget that Romney is also a Harvard lawyer and MBA [GWB was also a MBA]
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11th December 2012 at 10:54 pm
Kill Bill says:
I vote the IKEA macacque monkey for president
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11th December 2012 at 10:55 pm
Llpoh says:
Unions require a lot of lawyers. Hence, the dems end up being run by union lawyers.
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11th December 2012 at 3:24 am
flash says:
Due to sudden nausea resulting in projectile vomiting followed by hysterical laughter , I had to stop reading after the following lines.
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.
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11th December 2012 at 5:35 am
flash says:
Ginbitch…..really ?
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11th December 2012 at 5:37 am
John A says:
What is the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?
One is a scum-sucking bottom dweller and the other is a fish.
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11th December 2012 at 6:41 am
flash says:
How any self-respecting person of moral character could label themselves a Republican after Lincoln had so tarnished that Party’s name is beyond my comprehension.
RES
Abraham Lincoln, Stepfather of Our Country
Written by John J. Dwyer
http://thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/13671-abraham-lincoln-stepfather-of-our-country
“Anyone who embarks on a study of Abraham Lincoln … must first come to terms with the Lincoln myth. The effort to penetrate the crust of legend that surrounds Lincoln … is both a formidable and intimidating task. Lincoln, it seems, requires special considerations that are denied to other figures.”
— Robert W. Johannsen
Lincoln, the South, and Slavery
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11th December 2012 at 7:15 am
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Roy
There are 81 Republican lawyers in Congress and 123 Democrat lawyers in Congress. It ain’t just for Dems.
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11th December 2012 at 7:52 am
Roy says:
Admin
I didn’t write the piece. It is from stuff I have achieved. I threw it out to stir the pot. I will continue to post archieved material to stir the pot. I stand behind my above comment on lawyers and rats.
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11th December 2012 at 12:52 pm
Duber says:
While I agree that most all Lawyers are scum, to assign that particular brand of scumminess only to the Democratic Party is not accurate.
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11th December 2012 at 1:43 pm