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> The Republican Party
is different. President Bush and Vice
President
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Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders
of the Republican
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Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a
history professor; Tom
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Delay was an exterminator; and Dick Armey was an
economist. House
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Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not
a lawyer. The
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former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart
surgeon.
> Who was the last
Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford,
who
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left office thirty-one years ago and who barely won the
Republican
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nomination as a sitting president, running against
Ronald Reagan in
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1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people
doing real work.
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The Democratic Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats
mock and scorn men
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who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal
the sick like
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Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like
Gingrich.
> The Lawyers' Party
sees these sorts of people, who provide goods
and
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services that people want, as the enemies of America.
And so we have
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seen the procession of official enemies in the eyes of
the Lawyers'
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Party grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?
Pharmaceutical
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companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers,
fast food restaurant
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chains, large retail businesses, bankers and anyone
producing anything
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of value in our nation.
> This is the natural
consequence of viewing everything through the
eyes
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of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully
representing their
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clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek
to have new laws
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passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate
courts to
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overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language
to favor their
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side.
> Confined
to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is
an awful
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way to govern a great nation. When politicians as
lawyers begin to view
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some Americans as clients and other Americans as
opposing parties, then
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the role of the legal system in our life becomes all
consuming. Some
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Americans become "adverse parties" of our very
government. We are not
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all litigants in some vast social class action suit. We
are citizens of
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a republic which promises us a great deal of freedom
from laws, from
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courts, and from lawyers.
> Today, we are drowning
in laws, we are contorted by judicial
decisions,
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we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in
all parts of our
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once private lives. America has a place for laws and
lawyers, but that
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place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked.
When the most
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important decision for our next president is whom he
will appoint to the
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Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in
America is too big.
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When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation
of politics by
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other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter
Libby and Tom Delay,
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then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When
House Democrats
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sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn
what our enemies
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are planning to do, then the role of litigation in
America has
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become crushing.
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We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real
change, real reform
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or real hope in America. Most Americans know that a
republic in which
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every major government action must be blessed by nine
unelected judges
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is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans
grasp that we
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cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels
of our
>
defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and
judges will not
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restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of
enterprise in our
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economy.