why most people dont trust lawyers

[GS78]

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, 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!

[goodoleboy]

Very well written sir.

[Palladin]

Wow - well said!

[GS78]

I can't take credit for writing it, I dont know the author, it was sent to me as an e-mail from a friend of mine and of the constitution. I know there are tons of lawyers on the republican side as well, and I admit that this exacerbates the problems we have .

[ProShooter]

Whaddaya mean most people don't trust lawyers? Is 100% only most?

[zephyp]

Q: What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

A: A good start.

[VBshooter]

Q: Whats tragic about a busload of lawyers going over a cliff ??

A: There's some empty seats

[06bolton5pt3]

HAHA those two jokes are good!

Great article! I must send this to some people i know

[meadmkr]

I guess by the same token we cannot trust millionaires since about 44% of Congress are also in that category - http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29235.html

Ironic that some of the richest also hold law degrees. Simply goes to show how little the average congress-critter has in common with the averarge citizen! They don't break it down by party but the listed names seem split between parties.

Time for term limits on all elected/appointed federal levels with no more than 30 years total federal service & a max of 12 years at any level!

Pro is to Con as Progress is to Congress
CW

[novaglock]

Hits the nail on the head! I've said for years lawyers should not be allowed to run for office. But what's the chance of that happening with them running the show? BTW - Health care? Should be called lawyer care. It will keep every lawyer in the country busy for their entire career.

[cigarmanva]

some of my best friends are lawyers, and I'm married to one, and I'd hate to be without one after a good self defense shooting or a LEO violates my rights. I understand the blowing off steam, but think about who you're gona call when everything you own is on the line or your about to be roomies with bubba.

[zephyp]

think about who you're gona call when everything you own is on the line or your about to be roomies with bubba.

Is this like the old adage about trash men...what would happen if they suddenly stopped coming to your house for good...

Seriously, not that all lawyers are bad of course. Too many of the ones that give them all a bad name usually do something highly visible...

[novaglock]

I'm not saying we don't need lawyers... but think about it. They make the laws that keep their colleagues in business. Any chance that could be a conflict of interest?

[zephyp]

I'm not saying we don't need lawyers... but think about it. They make the laws that keep their colleagues in business. Any chance that could be a conflict of interest?

Actually there arent as many lawyers in congress as one would believe. Most have no legal background. We merely assume they do since they are "legislators."

[GS78]

The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers........ thats about all that needs to be said.