[chickadee]

Amen to that. Free us from the lawyers.

[chickadee]

Yikes, I messed up the link and the attribution. I need coffee. Want Real Change? Quit Nominating Lawyers!

[roaddog727]

Looks Like Victor Davis Hanson read my post from over the weekend titled “Lawyers don’t lead”.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070950/posts

[doodad]

No kidding. Letting word weasels carve legislation to favor themselves is just stupid.

[Machavelli]

Now chickadee, don’t let the crooked 99% of lawyers spoil it for the rest of them. I have often thought that the entire purpose of our COngress’ legislative endeavors has been to pass laws that allow lawyers to become obscenely wealthy.

[BobbyT]

I love this one...Irish view of our election:

“On one side, you have a woman who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, running against a lawyer who is married to a woman who is a lawyer.

On the other side, you have a war hero married to a good looking woman who owns a beer distributorship.”

(This was pre-Biden and Sarahcuda, so I’m sure there’s an even better version now.)

I’m a fan of just passing a law that bans lawyers from holding state or national legislative positions. Then you’d have laws written by PEOPLE in ENGLISH and easily understandable by everyday citizens (there goes 99% of the tax code right there). Also, once you strip away the vast majority of every law that serves as legal padding, it would have the added bonus of exposing all the hidden provisions that get tacked on, leftwing doublespeak, etc.

[Archon of the East]

Especially on the Dem side its nothing but trial lawyers. Even Fred Barons bragged about how the trial lawyers control the Senate.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This will be the first no lawyer ticket to win since Grant/Wilson in 1872.

I think it is time.

[Quix]

i SERIOUSLY

believe that the Constitution would be better limiting lawyers in government to 5% of their proportion of the population.

Further, that NO JUDGES AT ANY LEVEL could be lawyers or could have ever been a lawyer.

[TSgt]

This is exactly what I told my wife last night.

[freekitty]

I agree with this.

[Quix]

By 5% of their proportion of the population . . . say their proportion of the population was 10%

They could only comprise 5% of 10% of the legislatures.

Am not real articulate in math. . . .

WHERE lawyers were 10% of the population at large . . .

IF 100 legislators = 10% of the legislature, there could only be 5 lawyers in that legislature.

[Solemar]

I agree with VDH all the time. But not this time.

The problem isn’t nominating lawyers. The problem is with the character and ideology of the persons nominated. The problem is nominating socialists.

There is a huge difference between a “lawyer” such as ambulance chasing insurance company blackmailing John Edwards, and “lawyers” like Scalia, Roberts or Thomas.

To the poster who said no lawyers should be judges. Please.

I used to practice in Pennsylvania, a state that permits non-lawyers (read: “Political Donors” of both stripes) to be elected to what are called the “District Court” (lowest court - think traffic court, plus low level street crime)

I appeared for a hearing defending my client who was accused of assaulting his wife (yes this scum nauseated me as well which is why my practice is solely tax and estates now).

I walk into the courtroom - the non-lawyer good-ole-boy District Judge is talking with the DA. He says - “Oh, we’re discussing your case right now, please wait outside”.

That’s what you get with non-lawyer judges.

[FrankR]

TV has made the typical American Lawyer into a walking-talking "get out of jail free" card...well, not free, but you know what I mean.

Meanwhile, over 200 years ago we left England because it got to "judicial", with lawyers run amok and morphing into would-be dictators.

In that meantime, most of the BEST presidents we've ever had WERE NOT LAWYERS. They were just the "People"...you know, the ones they talk about in that little paper called the Constitution. The "of", "by", and "for" folks.

If most of the ambulance chasers now working in this country would have showed up on the old west, they would still be either picking the feathers out of the tar, or picking buckshot out of their butts.

Young people view this as a sort of "glamor" job...no doubt urged on by older relatives with promises of purported fortunes to be made in the job. All you have to do is stay away nights combing to medical books and records to find out who has mesotheleoma and sue the crap out of the last doctor who passed that patient in the hall.

Today's law is a game of extortion...everybody is suing everybody and no one is getting rich but the lawyers.

So, what happens as these barristers climb their private evolutionary scale and reach their enevitable goal of running for office? Do they stop the blame game? Absolutely not...they just take it to a different level.

Now, if you're one of the people who think that this elected lawyer gives a damn about you, a constituent...well, you haven't been paying attention to society for the last 50 years. You've been too busy watching those TV lawyers...the image of the "noble" lawyer...like "jumbo shrimp", it's the world's most common oxymoron...mostly moron.

And they see their God given role in this world in making up rules for you and I to follow, that are almost impossible to follow, and at the same time making themselves IMMUNE to those same rules.

And, the laws they make...well, they have to be in favor of perpetuating the "blame game"...so they can make money when get out of office too.

We would have a better country if no more than 25% of Congress were ever lawyers; the presidency needs to be changed to a one-time term, 6 years. Currently, a candidate who is elected President, spends only about 2 years learning the job and trying to get things done, and then the other two years campaigning. Those two things - and abolishing the income tax and the democratic party, would set America right again. /sarc

[FrankR]

TV has made the typical American Lawyer into a walking-talking "get out of jail free" card...well, not free, but you know what I mean.

Meanwhile, over 200 years ago we left England because it got to "judicial", with lawyers run amok and morphing into would-be dictators.

In that meantime, most of the BEST presidents we've ever had WERE NOT LAWYERS. They were just the "People"...you know, the ones they talk about in that little paper called the Constitution. The "of", "by", and "for" folks.

If most of the ambulance chasers now working in this country would have showed up on the old west, they would still be either picking the feathers out of the tar, or picking buckshot out of their butts.

Young people view this as a sort of "glamor" job...no doubt urged on by older relatives with promises of purported fortunes to be made in the job. All you have to do is stay away nights combing to medical books and records to find out who has mesotheleoma and sue the crap out of the last doctor who passed that patient in the hall.

Today's law is a game of extortion...everybody is suing everybody and no one is getting rich but the lawyers.

So, what happens as these barristers climb their private evolutionary scale and reach their enevitable goal of running for office? Do they stop the blame game? Absolutely not...they just take it to a different level.

Now, if you're one of the people who think that this elected lawyer gives a damn about you, a constituent...well, you haven't been paying attention to society for the last 50 years. You've been too busy watching those TV lawyers...the image of the "noble" lawyer...like "jumbo shrimp", it's the world's most common oxymoron...mostly moron.

And they see their God given role in this world in making up rules for you and I to follow, that are almost impossible to follow, and at the same time making themselves IMMUNE to those same rules.

And, the laws they make...well, they have to be in favor of perpetuating the "blame game"...so they can make money when get out of office too.

We would have a better country if no more than 25% of Congress were ever lawyers; the presidency needs to be changed to a one-time term, 6 years. Currently, a candidate who is elected President, spends only about 2 years learning the job and trying to get things done, and then the other two years campaigning. Those two things - and abolishing the income tax and the democratic party, would set America right again. /sarc

[wardaddy]

unfair....my favorite lawyer in Nashville is way up in Mac’s campaign here

and he’s a litigator

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Bush is not a lawyer, His father is not a lawyer. Reagan was not a lawyer. Carter was not a lawyer, Eisenhower was not a lawyer, Truman was not a lawyer.

Clinton was a lawyer. I’m not sure about Nixon, Johnson, and Ford. At least six out of nine presidents in my lifetime were not lawyers. What’s the complaint again?

[Tempest]

Love it.