Tornado Alley (PROG)

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DesertDrifter -- "over three quarters of the congress is lawyers" -- bullshit

List of Lawyers in the 111th Congress
54 Senators plus 162 (out of 441, including the 6 non-voting) Representatives = 216/541 = 39.93%
May 28th, 2009
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/94514

At the Bar; A Congress with fewer lawyers is a Congress with different inclinations.
"Since 1981, lawyers have accounted for 46 percent to 48 percent of the members of Congress. This year, they constitute 43 percent. Lawyers headed about half the committees in the old Congress; this year, they lead only a third."
April 7, 1995
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/07/us/bar-congress-with-fewer-lawyers-congress-with-different-inclinations.html

which sets the tone for the quality of the other claims made in that post -- more later