The ruling class: Lawyers and bureaucrats

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 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, 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 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.