Politics

Perhaps The Problem Has Been Identified!

Apr 29th

So I got this e-mail from my grandfather the other day and I thought it was so amusing (and true at the same time), that I feel obligated to share it with everybody:

Perhaps the problem is identified…

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!

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Alan Keyes – the political height of intelligence

Mar 19th

Posted by JonnyFunFun in Politics

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Where were the intelligent people on election night? One of them was running for President, and frankly – should have been president. Even if you were an Obama supporter, for which I would feel sorry for you, you must watch the video. Listen to the words. He makes a good point.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6p3l8BXmhs

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The Crisis’ Cause Calls for Change

Oct 1st

Posted by JonnyFunFun in General

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As I’m sure everybody by now is aware, our country is facing some serious challenges and we all are finding ourselves in some seriously troubled economic times. It could not come at a more infelicitous time with the presidential election drawing near. We’ve all been hearing the presidential candidates on both sides of the fence use the current situtation as gold-plated ammunition against the other. With the failure of the passage of the infamous “bailout bill” in the house just a few days ago, we have found our representatives and senators hopping on the bandwagon and pointing fingers. The Republicans blamed Nancy Pelosi’s speech, saying nothing more than it hurt their feelings. The Democrats are blaming the indecisive leadership of President Bush. What neither of these parties realize is that this has been an economic time-bomb that was set up over a decade ago, and both parties are equally to blame for it.

What the common man probably does not realize, and what the politicians have readily forgot, is that the root cause of this crisis was legislation set forth in the 90’s and whose roots can be tied all the way down to the Carter administration. During the Clinton administration, Fannie Mae was investigated by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, for racial descrimination. His proposal was to bring forth a sort of “affirmative action” legislation in the financial sector – more specifically loans and mortgages. Furthermore, fearing a slieu of lawsuits would insue as a result of the investigation, the Federal Reserve backed by the Clinton administration demanded that banks consider welfare payments as an income stream equal to that of a salaried paycheck. Banks were no longer allowed to solely consider traditional criteria for loans and mortgages, such as an applicant’s credit worthiness, steady income stream, and the ability to make a down payment. Ann Coulter said that “banks were encouraged to consider nontraditional measures of credit-worthiness, such as having a good jump shot or having a missing child named ‘Caylee.’”

As the reign of Bill Clinton began to wind down, in 1999 they were wearing the fact that they extended affirmative action to the financial sector like a badge. Boasting that “black and Latino homeownership [had] surged to the highest level ever recorded.” In fact, many newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times, referred to the administration’s affirmative action lending policies as one of Bill’s “hidden success stories.” In the meantime, economists were livid, screaming that as soon as the housing boom began to decline, these loans that lenders were forced to issue would begin to fail as deadbeat borrowers would fail to make their payments.

Nearly a decade later, the housing boom began to slow, and the ticking time bomb has gone off. Now I am not blaming the affirmative action lending legislation on the Democrats alone. In Washington, just like everywhere else, it takes two to tango. The Republicans had a hand in passing these policies through, and allowing it to happen. People need to realize these facts, realize that both the Republicans and the Democrats are equally responsible for this problem, and demand change.

What sort of change am I suggesting? Change that does not include the words “Republican” or “Democrat.” What this country needs is a third-party candidate to take the presidency and send a clear-cut message to Washington that the American people are fed up with the “business as usual” that we have seen from our politicians time and time again. Now to those of you who do not believe in a third-party candidate, those who think that they’re unfit to do the job or can’t do it as well, you’re forgetting one thing: President Abraham Lincoln was a third-party candidate. In fact, he was the first Republican to ever take office. Back then, the Republican party was just another third-party, not unlike today’s Constitution, Libertarian, or Green Parties.

So to each and every voting American who reads this, I emplore you – do the right thing come election day. Tell Washington and Capitol Hill that you’ve had enough. Don’t go Republican or Democrat – vote third-party.