We’ve got to impeach this moron.
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The reason we have such a moron as governor seems to be that the Minnesota “Democratic Party” is organized in such a way that we usually end up pitting two Democrats against one Republican. We can’t do that next time. Seriously.
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Pawlenty went to law school?
What was it Shakespeare said about lawyers?
As we review Shakespeareâ??s Henry VI, part 2, we find at this juncture in the story Jack Cadeâ??s rebellion was picking up steam. Dick, the butcher, was a member of this
rebellion.
As Dick utters the famous words â??first thing we do, letâ??s kill all the lawyers,â? he was referring to ways that the rebellion might be successful. They recognized that to
succeed, they must get rid of those who knew and enforced a system of laws. They did not want any learned and informed opposition to the rebellion they had planned against
the government. This makes sense.
If you are tempted to create anarchy through rebellion, the first objectives will be to get rid of legal process, individual rights, and the truth. The members of the rebellion realized it would be the lawyers that would stand up and identify how individual rights were being abused and due process was not being afforded. It was the lawyers who
would recognize that rebellion sought to take away freedoms rather than grant them.
This concept that the lawyers would recognize was later put in context by Daniel Webster who stated, â??liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.â?
But here, we now have lawyers trying to game the system. Let us go back to Shakespeare’s time. It was simpler then.
I’m not sure you need to apologize for the others in MN who voted for this clown, but thanks.
Here’s my question: are clowns like your gov (who is a great deal like several clowns here in MI who want to run for governor), and the folks on the extremes – those who’re currently carrying racial/nazi/socialist/offensive signs at rallies, and the birthers, truthers, anti-vaccination folk, more numerous now than at any time since the early 70s, when I left high school, or is it simply that our technological age provides an easy stage for so many of them?
I hope it’s the latter, because otherwise they’re breeding waaaaayyy too fast.
Well, I can’t accept, since if I did I’d have to apologize for the idiocy of Pope Perry I, the traitor who for some reason was not impeached. I just can’t apologize for intentional morons.
I’ll see your dumbass governor and raise you an asshole governor. Take RI Gov. Don Carcieri.
There is another side to the ‘kill all the lawyers’ sentiment. It has to do with eliminating those who have no connection to the arguments. People who are disconnected by way of wealth and power to the point where they can afford to maintain a status as professional sophists. Able and willing to argue either side of an argument because disconnection makes it an academic exercise they can pick and chose which side to argue according to which side increases their power or pays them more.
At least in Shakespeare’s the lawyers were still vulnerable to being killed. Today they are mercenaries for hire fighting battles where everyone except the lawyers bleed. Battles played for time where hours are billable and win or lose the lawyers get paid.
@#1: When I was in law school (many years ago), one of the professors started class with the Shakespeare quote from Henry VI: â??first thing we do, letâ??s kill all the lawyers,â? then went on to add his own gloss: “They hate us, but they can’t live without us!”
I enjoyed this clip, as it illustrates what happens when you ask someone who actually knows what he is talking about for an opinion: nuanced discussion of the complex issues behind a slogan. Little enough of this on MSNBC; none on Faux News.