An interesting approach…

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns…

This is an interesting approach to the parties, and I’d never thought of it in this way, but it DOES make sense!!!



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 First 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 First, 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.

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 go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!

While I don’t necessarily agree with ALL the points, he does make some good ones… And one case in point is Angelos the owner of the Orioles and a lawyer, he made an estimated $100 million off the asbestos suits, when the average claimant got less than $2000. His ‘claim to fame’ is class action suits, and the majority of the $$ go to him, not the members of the class action… sigh… 

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An interesting approach… — 13 Comments

  1. Taking it a step further, most of them are lawyers with law degrees from either Harvard or Yale.

    Scarier yet is that all but one of the Supreme Court are also students of either Harvard and Yale law schools.

    This leads to homogeneity of thinking and everyone else being ‘other’ or ‘lesser’.

  2. It might be of some interest that of those lawyers you name, slick willie was disbarred, michelle and barry gave up their law licences for unknown reasons. Others like john edwards have had legal troubles of their own making. Nasty pelosi is certainly an embarrassment to the legal profession (and anyone else with above a room temperature IQ.)

  3. MC- That is an EXCELLENT point…

    Andy- Thanks

    Roger- Another good point!

    Ed- 🙂

    WSF- I don’t wanna… sigh

  4. A lawyer is part of the judicial branch of the government and shouldn’t be allowed to serve public office in a legislative capacity…ever. Those that try should be keel-hauled.

  5. “And one case in point is Angelos the owner of the Orioles and a lawyer…”

    Angelos bought the Orioles in 1993. Since then they have had only three winning seasons – and none since 1997. I guess that means that there are no class action suits in baseball.

    Q: What’s the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
    A: The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside.

    Q: Why did God invent lawyers?
    A: So used car salesmen would have someone to look down on.