Posted on 03/30/2014 1:39:03 PM PDT by John Semmens
Iowa Democratic Senatorial candidate, Representative Bruce Braley’s assertion that Congress is no place for a farmer has not gone over well among the state’s rural population.
“I’m not saying that farmers don’t have a meaningful role to play in our society,” Braley said in his own defense. “Obviously, someone has to grow the crops and raise the livestock to feed this nation. What I’m saying is that farmers lack the skill necessary to make our laws.”
The persons with the necessary skills, according to Braley, are lawyers. “The job of Congress is to enact laws,” Braley observed. “Lawyers are trained in the law. It should be clear that a lawyer is, by far, the most logical option for a state’s Congressional representation.”
Braley brushed off criticism from Iowa’s offended farmers as “insular and parochial. If further proof of the unfitness of farmers to serve as lawmakers was needed this is it. It could hardly be clearer that they lack the training and perspective to be entrusted with the authority to make the laws that govern our country.”
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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.
You are exactly correct. The line between satire and reality is too fuzzy anymore for these people.
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.
So remember this all you dumb plow boys! You need to stick to farming! Abraham Lincoln needed to stick to splittin rails!
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Not to mention those dumb farmers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
That’s a good one. Lawyers and their inspector partners have effectively outlawed all kinds of useful work and private property rights with mazes of regulations and fees.
Braley has stepped in the hog manure and won’t be able to get it off his lawyer’s wing tip shoes. Someone should remind Braley that George Washing was a farmer and not a lawyer.
The distance between satire and reality is one micron on this story.
I used to work with five or six guys from northeast Iowa. They were (1) all nice guys and (2) all bigtime Democrats.
It sounds like Braley dude is certainly NOT remorseful or repentant for his comment; doesn’t it?
George would have been a Whiskey Rebel if he had been living in W. Pa.
Is the GOP “making any hay” from this comment by Braley about farmers? (No pun intended.) Seriously; could this be the death knell for Braley’s campaign or do most Iowans consider it much ado about nothing? Somebody help me out here.
Is the GOP “making any hay” from this comment by Braley about farmers? (No pun intended.) Seriously; could this be the death knell for Braley’s campaign or do most Iowans consider it much ado about nothing? Somebody help me out here.
Refused a room because of his rustic appearance by an innkeeper who subsequently learned of his error and sent an apology by messenger, Jefferson replied:
“Tell the innkeeper that I value his good intentions highly, but if he has no room for a dirty farmer, he shall have none for the Vice-President of the United States.”
No, I don’t think so, whistleduck. When Eric said: “I do like the nut ripper from SW Iowa.” I believe he was talking about Joni Ernst who is running in the GOP Primary. She has an ad saying that she grew up on a farm where they used to “cut” hogs. She said she knows “how to cut pork” and make Washington “squeal”. If I could vote in IA, she’d get my vote.
The state GOP in Iowa is in chaos, but likely GOP nominee Mark Jacobs is already running an add:
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