They "Lawyered Up"

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. While some of them are
lawyers also they made their living in other ways.
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.

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!