Sounds more like something Democratic politicians would actually say than satire.
Lawyers will only make laws to benefit lawyers.
Yes, because lawyers have done such a great job. Only they can write laws thousands of pages long that no one understands. [/s]
See shovel
See dimocrat keep digging
Odds on how deep he can go?
The House’s Job is also to control the Budget and clean up the Laws and make them logically consistent and germane to the current realities.
”3. The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction and no excuse for interpolation or addition.” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.
OK, am I correct in thinking that Braley dude is the only Dem in this race, so whoever the GOP nominee is will take him on in November? If so, this should be a pick-up for the GOP.
No, no. Let’s be honest about it. The people with the necessary skills are crooks.
Doubling down on stupid.
Lawyers wrote Obamacare.
What we need is LESS lawyers in Congress. What we need more of is businesspeople, engineers, accountants, stay at home moms, farmers, lumberjack, but not lawyers.
There ya go, one more time you brainless Rat voters. This is what you are supporting, and they WILL corral you into little collectives according to their own wishes, and not to your benefit. The Rat leadership is right about one thing, their voters are stupid and need to be “guided” through life like cattle to slaughter.
Makes me wonder why there are so many lawyers in government. NOT!!
This reminds me of the time when Pat Brown, who was running for a third term as California’s governor, stated that it was an actor who shot Lincoln—not a very smart thing to say in the state where Hollywood is located.
The nicest thing anyone ever said about Grassly and it is considered an attack
I AM a lawyer. Lawyers are good for preparing the legal language to be used in the laws that legislators make. The ideas behind those laws can be discussed, and in fact it is optimal if done, by “regular” people who live lives that most of us do.
Lawyers are wordsmiths, nothing more. Tell them what product you want and they can make it, just like a dressmaker or home builder.
I fear that many of our problems today stem from the fact that far too many of our legislators are LAWYERS. Further, I believe that we need more DOCTORS – and engineers, accountants, shop-keepers, small business owners, etc. in those positions – and FAR FEWER LAWYERS!!
Lawyers as legislators pose a very, very serious problem for an ostensibly free people: They LOVE making laws and the more complex and incomprehensible the better. Think about it: In the private sector – to which many of them return (hopefully in HUGE NUMBERS in the next election) – they, and their buds who remain behind in the private sector, earn their often obscene incomes (in addition to the obscenely generous, COLA congressional pensions and tax subsidized HEALTH CARE!) wading through that Byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations they love to construct. It’s a process that prompted Otto von Bismarck to remark that “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” Can I get an “AMEN?”
Yes, it’s true that many of the Founders were lawyers or studied law. But that was a different time peopled by men of deeper character and integrity. Sadly, we have become a far different people. With a tip of the hat to Henny Youngman, for proof, take Barack Obama – please! It’s also true that a number of the Founders were physicians, merchants, tradesmen and farmers. It goes without saying that we desperately need a more representative cross-section of our population.
While there ARE exceptions (Bill Frist toward the end of his term, Phil Gingrey — who strays from time to time) my rule that physicians and engineers make better legislators than most lawyers generally holds true. I attribute that to the fact that doctors and engineers are trained in the SCIENTIFIC METHOD and rely more on FACTS and EMPIRICAL DATA for their decisions. Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Larry McDonald, Paul Broun, John Linder, Tom Price are (or were) all doctors. I’m sure you can think of other examples/exceptions. The poster boy for the exceptions is “Screamin’ Howard Dean, MD.
Unfortunately, far too many of these guys are ATTORNEYS.
Our late friend and author, composer, conductor, Nashville music producer, lover of Bach, pianist and all-around Renaissance man, Tupper Saussy, who somehow dodged the family tradition of becoming one, traced the term “attorney” back to the Sanscrit word “torwa.” And what does “torwa” mean? TO TWIST! And twist they do. Unfortunately, it’s not in the wind.
While SOME of these attorney-legislators are conservatives, their law school moot court training forced them to argue BOTH SIDES OF THE SAME CASE. I rather suspect that experience allows them to rationalize voting against the Constitution when expediency and/or their political survival/favor with their party leadership dictates. It is textbook moral relativism and we all pay for their perfidy.
Let me tie that attorney-legislator problem into the current health care debate: I might have missed it but I don’t believe there was one mention of TORT REFORM from the lawyers who cobbled together that 2,000+ page monstrosity now dividing the nation.
I’ll give you three guesses as to why — and the last two don’t count!
And here’s something to think about for the next election cycle: If the attorney-legislator representing your district does not pass muster at www.gradegov.com, if you can, find a NON-LAWYER for whom to vote after grilling him on the first principles near and dear to those who cherish freedom and the Constitution.
Too hard, say you?
No. SLAVERY is hard.
I love how this clown keeps digging himself in deeper. These arrogant leftists are all alike.