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 First, 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 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 go to the   
   Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and   
   product costs being so high!   
       
       
   Regards,   
       
   Roger   
      
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