The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers’ Party

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.

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 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 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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