Why do Republicans tend to look to the free market for solutions while Democrats insist on passing more laws?
...the tactics of "legislation by litigation" ... should be profoundly anathematic to a free society.
By increments, the need for lawyers has been extended to every aspect of human life, and the law schools themselves have metastatically expanded. In a sense, our entire society has been criminalized, by lawyers adding to myriad laws that impinge not only on criminals, but on everybody.
Democrats are Stinky with Lawyers
This is a point brought home to me by an amusing item a friend forwarded this week, comparing Democrat to Republican party in the United States.
The Democrat leadership is all lawyers, and has been for some time. Barack Obama, lawyer; Michelle Obama, lawyer; Hillary Clinton, lawyer; Bill Clinton, lawyer; Harry Reid, lawyer; Nancy Pelosi, lawyer; and so forth.Republicans are more diverse
All Democrat presidential candidates since 1984, lawyers -- except Al Gore, who somehow failed to graduate from law school.
Compare, if you will, the Republican leadership over the last while, in White House and Congress.In a nation of hammers, every problem looks like a nail...
The last Republican lawyer to make president was Gerald Ford. Instead: movie actor, spy chief, businessman, successively. Last election: an old soldier, and a PTA lady.
Look back at the leaders of the so-called "Republican revolution" in Congress: Newt Gingrich, history professor; Tom Delay, pest exterminator; Dick Armey, economist; Bill Frist, heart surgeon. (And note what the Democrat lawyers did to get rid of them.)
In a government ruled by lawyers, every citizen looks like a criminal, and every problem can be solved by one more law...
