Got this in an email,

A LITTLE SOMETHING TO PONDER??? 
This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way. Perhaps this
is why so many physicians are conservatives or Republicans.

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, 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!