Difference between Democrats and Republicans

As a small business person I have a question. How come my business ALWAYS does better when the Democratss are in office than it does when the Republicans are in office? Big busienss may feel diferently here but I certainly have a pretty good idea by now which side of the bread has the butter on it for me.

Good points, but just to be fair I feel I should point out that Dan Quayle was a lawyer, so we have had a lawyer as VP on the Republican side. Also in the current senate Mitch McConnell is a lawyer. The problem with our senate is that we have too many greedy lawyers on both sides of the aisle.

(Laughs) Bobmnu, that was perceptive! I have also found that most democrats are laid back individuals and most often looking for ways to get a share of whatsoever is available, regardless; and most republicans are entrepreneurs often seeking ways to get the most for their pennies, regardless!

Good points, thank you for the leg work. I think this explains the agendas and the refusal to touch torte reform

there are some excellent quotes that everybody knows and i am wondering why nobody has included here yet. shakespeare on lawyers (world, better place, no lawyers) and the bible on businessmen (money lenders, temple and also rich men, camels, needles). can't think of one for all politicians yet but will get back to you when i do.

...Hi there bob, Very interesting research. At leastwe know they are pretty smart people "o). But I take from all of it, that lawyers and businessmen lean toward politics. I don't think it matters what the career choice has been, it matters what kind of character the person has and why he or she chooses to enter the game. I also think that when people come to Washington, they are taken over by the group think, whatever group they are playing with. It then becomes hard to swim against the current. I would like to have someone find out how much progress for good, for the people, has been done by those who were millionaries before they got to Washington. Take care.

Yep... and to think that a lot of people seem to think the democrats and lawyers are better suited to handle the economy. They are not. Businessmen are. Lawyers are among the most reviled professions in existence, yet the moron voters keep electing them. What is wrong with that picture?

Bob, this is all very interesting, and very informative. But, the question I have for you is if republicans are so intelligent when it comes to the economy then explain the Bush years? At the end of Bush's presidency the country was exactly (if not worse) than when he came into office. His presidency didn't create ONE net job, and the stock market didn't increase at all. Not to mention at the end of his presidency he left the country in the worse financial shape in 70 years. I did find it interesting that DeLay was an exterminator. That is what he tried to do to anyone that didn't agree with right wing theory. By the way you call D!ck Cheney a "business man", but his only business experience was running a company where he was hired because he fell asleep on fishing trip and when he woke up he was the CEO. WOW, my dog could have met that criteria, should we call him a business man? "The Republicans are mostly businessmen who's main concern is to make money and create jobs. They spend time trying to build a product, cheaper and better than the competition." Look at the number of republicans that have left office only to become lobbyist who do basically the same thing as lawyers. Also, what about the D!ck Cheney's of the world who make a living off of huge military contracts for equipment that will NEVER SEE A BATTLEFIELD. Please look up the former Enron trader who Bush promoted to secretary of the Army Thomas White who fought so hard for the program that he was fired, and later went to work for the defense contractor that built it (as if he wasn't working for them when he was secretary).