This
> hits very close to home but makes some interesting points. A
> similar theme was articulated by Scalia a while back when he essentially said
>that "we are devoting too many of our best minds to lawyering".
>
>
> 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 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!
>
