Subject: Fw: The Lawyers' Party
I never have looked
at it this way, Interesting.
The Democrat Party has become the Lawyers' Party.
Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers.
Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the
other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer, and so is his wife,
Elizabeth.
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 the Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in
each house is a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different.
President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but
businessmen. The leaders of the Republican Revolution
were not lawyers.
Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an
exterminator; and, Dick Armey was an economist.
House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not
a lawyer.
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.
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 try to
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.