[StBernard] The Lawyers Party

[Westley Annis]

This is an entirely different spin on party divisions than any I had
considered.

 

 


A LAWYER WITH A BRIEFCASE CAN STEAL MORE THAN A THOUSAND MEN WITH GUNS.
                             Vito Corleone


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

Please -- DO PASS THIS ON!!!