DesertBull Report post Posted October 18, 2011 A LAWYER WITH A BRIEFCASE CAN STEAL MORE THAN A THOUSAND MEN WITH GUNS. This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way. The Lawyers' Party By Bruce Walker The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party. Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer. 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 leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer. The Republican Party is different. President Bush is a businessman. Vice President Cheney is a businessman. The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor. Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill First 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, who are often the targets of lawyers. 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 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 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. 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. The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the worlds lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.270 Report post Posted October 19, 2011 it's a sad situation. for the most part lawyers are like buzzards and coyotes. feed off the dead carcasses and love it. as long as it pays, nothing is too shameless for one. look at how lawyers work. they see somebody, an individual or coorporation or group or whatever, that has money, and with litigation take a bunch of it from them. don't have to even have a reason. they'll find one. the big tabacco suits were that way, same with oil lawsuits and now all the green lawsuits over environment, global warming, endangered species, whatever. a lawyer sees a way to weasel money outta somebody that has it. now look at obama. he wants to govern the same way. if you have anything he wants to take it away and give it to somebody else soley because they don't have it. no matter that they never did dick to get anything, but just because the don't have anything. dumbocrats keep folks stupid, weak, lazy, and stupid because they are the dead carcasses they feed off of. only, once again, they are too stupid to figger it out. Lark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luvdemcoues Report post Posted October 19, 2011 Charles Hamilton Houston said: "A lawyer is either a social engineer, or parasite on society." As you know, he was one of the reasons that desegregation (African Americans being allowed into pubic schools, etc) occurred. I think we all agree that was a good thing. He was a lawyer. I know this post isn't to say all lawyers are scum, but I think every profession has its scoundrels, not just the legal field. There are a lot of lawyers that do a lot of good things in society, and just because one is lawyer does not make him a poor politician/democrat or that he uses faulty logic like democrats do. Point taken from the post though. Just wanted to stand up for the good lawyers out there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stanley Report post Posted October 19, 2011 RIP Warren Zevon! Lawyers, Guns, and Money Well, I went home with the waitress The way I always do How was I to know She was with the Russians, too I was gambling in Havana I took a little risk Send lawyers, guns and money Dad, get me out of this I'm the innocent bystander Somehow I got stuck Between the rock and the hard place And I'm down on my luck And I'm down on my luck And I'm down on my luck Now I'm hiding in Honduras I'm a desperate man Send lawyers, guns and money The &%$# has hit the fan Send lawyers, guns and money... S. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BeardownAZ Report post Posted October 20, 2011 Charles Hamilton Houston said: "A lawyer is either a social engineer, or parasite on society." As you know, he was one of the reasons that desegregation (African Americans being allowed into pubic schools, etc) occurred. I think we all agree that was a good thing. He was a lawyer. I know this post isn't to say all lawyers are scum, but I think every profession has its scoundrels, not just the legal field. There are a lot of lawyers that do a lot of good things in society, and just because one is lawyer does not make him a poor politician/democrat or that he uses faulty logic like democrats do. Point taken from the post though. Just wanted to stand up for the good lawyers out there. I think the point was that, our society is almost completely dictated by lawyers who have there own ambitions ahead of the countries best interest. Not that every single one is bad. Its just too lopsided as the article told, making the whole group(lawyers) look bad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DesertBull Report post Posted October 20, 2011 Who would you want running the economy, business leaders or ambulance chasers? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.270 Report post Posted October 20, 2011 it's like they say, 99% of the lawyers make the other 1% look bad. Lark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luvdemcoues Report post Posted October 20, 2011 it's like they say, 99% of the lawyers make the other 1% look bad. Lark. I hear you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
