On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:13:03 -0700 (PDT), Loogypicker
wrote:

On Apr 27, 5:41*pm, John H wrote:
*Sent to me by a friend. Now I can better understand the relationships between
Democrats and tort reform. Not putting down Democrats, or anything, just
thinking out loud.

This hits close to home but makes some interesting points. A similar theme
*was articulated by Scalia a while back when he essentially said that "we
*are devoting too many of our best minds to lawyering".

*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, 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 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.

*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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John H

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Pssst......

According to congressmerge.com, a searchable database on the 110th
congress...


Your database search matched 78 members of Congress, including:



•19 Senators and 58 Representatives
•78 Republicans
You searched for members of Congress who fulfill all the following
criteria:


•They are Republicans.
•Their Professional experience includes "attorney".

I found another 3 under lawyer for a total of 81

So what? Like Jim says, liberals are dishonest as hell. You're a good example of
same.

Now hush. I'm done with you. Maybe in June I'll answer another of your inane
posts.
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John H

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