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 is 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
Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was
the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford left office 31
years ago and 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 own 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. 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 to 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 world's 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 goes to the Democrat
Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs
being so high!
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