[Hoot Gibson]

Well perhaps you SHOULD do your research...


Congress is in fact extremely diverse. Educationally speaking, members have everything from no college at all, to Doctorates.. Religious views are wider, with representation of over 33 denominations and religious. Including mormons, catholics, buddhists, atheists, muslims, jews, quakers, anglicans, baptists, lutherans, methodists, pentacostal, and 7th day adventists. They're White, Black, Caucasian, hispanic..... gay, straight, barney franks lol. And when it comes to occupation, 204 were in law, 201 in business, 16 doctors, 16 police officials, broadcasters, bank tellers, carpenters, farmers, hotel clerks, toll booth operators, etc.

The fact is, the average everyday american would do horrible in the halls of congress, and BECAUSE they don't have legal backgrounds they'd have a difficult time understanding legislative language, parlimentary procedures, points of order, etc, etc, etc.

I appreciate your belief in more diversity, but diversity isn't whats needed.

Well under 1 percent of the people employed in this country are lawyers. By your numbers, 46.9 percent of the people serving in Congress are lawyers - and you think that is evidence of diversity? This country is more than $14 trillion in debt, and you are concerned that if we started electing average Americans to Congress, that they would really screw things up.

Allow me to let you in on a little secret, becoming a lawyer does not automatically make you an above-average American. Some of the most dim-witted, poorest writing Americans that I have ever met are lawyers (as are some of the brightest people who I know).

The evidence suggests that the lawyers that Americans are voting into Congress and into the White House are not the most gifted people that our law schools churn out every year.

Based on your lofty opinion of those who manage to graduate law school (some graduates are not bright enough to ever pass their bar exam), my guess is that you either: 1) you are a lawyer yourself, 2) you have never spent much time watching real lawyers work, or 3) you base your opinions of lawyers on old episodes of the Paper Chase TV show. For whatever reason, you are wildly overstating the competence of the members of Congress. Few of our elected representatives are exceptional in any meaningful way.