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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