An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Something To Think About
Shared by Ken the cop.
LAWYERS….
This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way. Perhaps this is why so many physicians are conservatives or Republicans.
Thoughtful point of view…
The Democrat 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 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 plastics 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 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 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.
Very true. Sounds a bit like the open at SamSphere-Phoenix being delivered by Blue Collar Muse (yes, I’m a bad man for multitasking
[...] at An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings: The Democrat Party has become the Lawyers’ Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. [...]
It doesn’t take a lot of looking to call this wishful thinking. A quick Google for Republican lawyers turns up Orrin Hatch and Sarah’s Earmark Pal, Ted Stevens.
@steveegg:
Pfft! I’m impressed by anyone who can multi-task….which includes walking and chewing gum at the same time…..which I have trouble with. Heh!
So, the Muse is out in Phoenix, eh? Must be nice. Are you out there too? Everybody gets to go to the good stuff.
@grumps:
Since Palin took on the powers that be, I wouldn’t exactly call Stephens her ‘pal’. Sheesh. Anyways…that’s 2….and one of ‘em….well, I’ll only recognize Hatch as a Pubbie.
According to this, there are 81. On the other hand, there are 128 Dems. Not sure how accurate it is, cuz well…it’s Wiki after all. 
75% of lawyer donations are to the Dhimms. 25% to Pubs. Now, whose side are the lawyers on? Lawyers LIKE regulations, they can file lawsuits which makes ‘em money, which gives ‘em more to donate to Dhimms. C’mon grumps. One of the reason we’ve gone so far into this cesspool is cuz of lawyers.