The Lawyer's Party

**oldksnarc** · 08-19-2008, 10:52 AM

The Lawyers Party

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.

**wtnhunt** · 08-19-2008, 11:06 AM

That is an interesting perspective for sure, pretty well written. Thanks for posting.

**EKYhunter** · 08-20-2008, 09:39 AM

Abraham Linclion, our best president, was a laywer. All of the SCOTUS are lawyers and some of them are pretty good such as Scalia. Just an observation.

**Texan_Til_I_Die** · 08-20-2008, 12:12 PM

Being a lawyer was, for most of our history, a respected profession. It has only recently begun to have bad connotations, due mainly to "ambulance chasers" like John Edwards and high profile defense attorneys like Johnnie Cochran who manage to get cold blooded killers to walk free.

**Hoosierbuck** · 08-20-2008, 03:04 PM

Ouch! Me bum is stinging a little bit.
HB-Lawyer-Republican-loather of the ACLU

**Texan_Til_I_Die** · 08-20-2008, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Hoosierbuck

HB-Lawyer-Republican-loather of the ACLU

You're a lawyer, eh? My condolences.

Actually, a couple of my hunting buddies are lawyers and I never miss a chance to let them have it!

Hey, why won't a rattlesnake bite a lawyer?
Professional courtesy.

**wtnhunt** · 08-20-2008, 04:19 PM

Pretty unfortunate that there are so many lawyers out there who have lead way to a perception of them being like the politician/lawyers the article above is about.

Hard pressed here not to see an advertisement while watching the evening news for Corey B Trotz encouraging folks to call him for nursing home abuse and other attorneys ads for auto claims or others for mesothelioma settlements abd such that spurs dollar signs for people. Sad truth is that people who are greedy are just as much to blame in many cases for the rep attorneys get, but the attorneys often let themselves be put in that type of situation.

Obviously there are a lot of good attorneys out there who do what is right, but sure seems there is also no shortage of attorneys out there like TTID pointed out who really could care less about right or wrong but are more concerned with their own fortune. Just like most professions there are good and bad.

**oldksnarc** · 08-20-2008, 06:53 PM

This, by no means, was an attack on all lawyers. I, too, know several who are good and as conservative as I am. Just like not all Catholic Priests are pedophiles and not all cops eat donuts.

Just an e-mail I got that said what I had seen and thought for some time and thought I'd share. And, I doubt very many liberal lawyers would be on here - anti-gun and anti-hunting.

**stevebeilgard** · 08-20-2008, 10:09 PM

it's a pretty good post overall. my son in law is a lawyer, conservative, with political ambitions. and a great guy. there are some good ones, like hoosierbuck. it's the 99% of lawyers that give the others a bad name....lol

**Hoosierbuck** · 08-20-2008, 10:11 PM

I ain't hurt, I was just joshin'. I always say the worst part of my job is that I have to deal with lawyers all the time. I don't like most of them, either. By and large, I agree with the OP. Steve, where did you go wrong with your boy?

HB