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 is 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 sort 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 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 overburdensom 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 grasp that we cannot
fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans know 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 worlds population and 66% of the worlds 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.
Greg Heine,
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They
just make the most of everything.