Posted on 03/27/2014 1:01:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
We need fewer lawyers in politics.
I upset several long time liberal friends when I pointed out how hypocritical their Clintongasms were when they were the same people who bashed Nixon and his ilk for being lawyers. They were hoping everyone forgot their stance on the issue.
Why would I want a trial lawyer that has been fighting Tort Reform elected to the Senate?
Tort lawyers have been systematically looting the country by way of frivolous law suits. This country desperately needs Tort Reform. We need looser pays.
Fixed it for you. :-P
It's even worse in context.
See, they have a word for people like Braley in Iowa. It’s called “asshole.”
Bastard lawyers just can't steal enough, and they're proud of it too.
Show me a lawyer who is growing food for America.
That would tend to happen after they’ve been buried.
Actually, my lawyer stepfather was a farmer.
Mark Twain once said, “ A lawyer is nothing more than a paid liar”.
Soem of us feel the same about farmers who have been sucking on the corporate welfare teat for generations.
“Iowa Democrats are worried Rep. Bruce Braley’s remark that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) is a “farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” could come back to haunt him.”
Only if we are smart enough to use this gift. Bruce “Towel” Braley said another stupid thing:
“farmers who have been sucking on the corporate welfare teat for generations. “
Well good point; but at least the farmers produce a very important product at the end of the day.
I guess that’s why the number of farmers has been in freefall while the number of lawyers is burgeoning.
To the vast majority of the country, not just Iowa, we would much rather have a farmer from Iowa overlooking the justice system in the US than a pampered lawyer.
What about the farmers who are paid not to grow crops?
The Founding Fathers were farmers. They knew farmers, farms and farming (there was so much land) would help grow a great and powerful nation. The Founding Fathers brought seeds from other places, exchanged them, bought them, experimented with them - all with an eye to prosper and grow. The country was built on farming and the trade that came with it.
Not just his comments. The video of his comments shows him standing next to a table with dozens of bottles of booze.
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