tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post6499982087530820139..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: How a GOP Senate Majority Could HelpGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-38422301679884725002014-11-01T04:56:27.108-06:002014-11-01T04:56:27.108-06:00Vigilis,
If you really "get" my argumen...Vigilis,<br /><br />If you really "get" my arguments, you would see: (a) that I have no more regard or disregard for attorneys than I do members of any other legitimate profession; and (b) that the answer to the question you ask is completely irrelevant to the arguments I make.<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-8288198098280236182014-10-31T20:01:50.112-06:002014-10-31T20:01:50.112-06:00I get you opinion, Gus. But, how does your said op...I get you opinion, Gus. But, how does your said opinion comport with the wisdom of Ayn Rand? What, if anything specific did your guru express regard to your curious respect for members of the bar? And, do you. like myself have family kinship with the vainted profession? It is time readers knew such answers, my fellow.Vigilishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05051789616490005367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-39191132342472196442014-10-30T20:17:45.515-06:002014-10-30T20:17:45.515-06:00Vigilis,
As you know by now, I dispute your attri...Vigilis,<br /><br />As you know by now, I dispute your attribution of our nation's problems to an overabundance of lawyers (or any other profession).<br /><br />Public officials are elected by people, too many wanting handouts or favors at the expense of others and blind or evasive of the fact that those chickens will eventually come home to roost. <br /><br />You are right that, in the sense that we have two big-government parties, that the GOP and the Democrats are indistinguishable in many respects. But they aren't indistinguishable in <i>all</i> respects and can be played off one another to a degree until a strong political opposition can be built. But you are wrong about (corrupt or opportunistic) attorneys being the cause of the problem. The fact that so many are attracted to politics is a symptom of the fact that the law, long ago in many cases, became about taking advantage of some, rather than protecting all.<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-24287040456460199292014-10-29T19:56:20.132-06:002014-10-29T19:56:20.132-06:00"...on other ways a GOP Senate majority could..."...on other ways a GOP Senate majority could thwart the President, such as by killing bad treaties or preventing particularly bad judicial appointments."<br /><br />Gus, the GOP has demonstrated time and time again that it is no longer an opposition party, but subject to the identically exactl pressures of over 16,000 K-Street lobbyists as the Democratich Party.<br /><br />Essentially our elected "representative" congress has become a single national league comprised of only two teams battling for the privilege of enriching themselves through bundlers of campaign contributions --- the lobbyists.<br /><br />There is only one peaceful solution to this increasing corruption of our constitutional federal government. Stop electing so many lawyers whose end careers are profoundly influenced by the ridiculously disproportionate influence of a single profession, the profession that oversees the "regulation" of the undeniable lawyer-political complex:<br />http://vigilisa.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Vigilishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05051789616490005367noreply@blogger.com