[Rhodes22-list] THE LAWYERS PARTY

[Herb Parsons]

You probably can guess my view on the article. Wish I'd written it!

But, there is a way to get a lawyer on the side of "big business". They 
have to HIRE the lawyer. It worked for Hillary, she used to be a BIG 
believer in Wal-Mart...

Hank wrote:
> Agree or disagree..it's interesting reading. - Hank
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> THE LAWYERS PARTY
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> 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.
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> 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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