[Rhodes22-list] THE LAWYERS PARTY

[Hank]

Agree or disagree..it's interesting reading. - Hank

THE LAWYERS PARTY

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack 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 Benson, 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 thirty-one 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
Democratic 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 which 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
use, 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.

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