[Rhodes22-list] THE LAWYERS PARTY

[Lou Rosenberg]

Thanks Dave


On May 1, 2008, at 3:28 AM, David Bradley wrote:

> Hmm.  Let's look at the listings of great presidents.
>
> George Washington - Surveryor, Planter, Military.
>
> John Adams - Laywer.
>
> Thomas Jefferson - Lawyer.
>
> James Polk- Lawyer.
>
> Abraham Lincoln - Lawyer.
>
> Harry Truman - Studied Law, Judge, Haberdasher.
>
> Woodrow Wilson - Law Professor
>
> FDR - Lawyer.
>
> Dwight Eisenhower - Military.
>
> John Kennedy - Military - Politician.
>
> Ronald Reagan (not on my list but on some) - Entertainer.
>
> Bill Clinton (dissapointing human but I'd say an excellent chief
> executive) - Lawyer.
>
>
> The premise that business leaders make good country leaders doesn't
> seem to have much historical basis.  The strongest business leaders I
> have known have steered clear of politics because they didn't have the
> patience.
>
> The premise that all lawyers are leeches is just plain bigotry.
>
> The premise that the Democratic Party is anti-business is also a load
> of B.S., but too late to take that one on.
>
> In my opinion, of course.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Page Printed from:
>> http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/the_lawyers_party.html
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