Son-in-law. I don’t like him so much due to his allergy to steady work and, of course, he’s way beneath my daughter’s station in life. I’ve always considered him one of the dimmer bulbs in the lamp and for sure politics were never his forte.
But as we all must, I tolerate him on holidays and such and this year they are all spending night as they live in Baltimore and I live in swamps of Delaware. We had a great meal and a great time, in the name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, as last year I had not one gift under tree and Christmas capped a year of brain infections and heart bypass operations.
SIL cannot stand Obama and he launches into rant after rant.
“First of all,” he says. Inwardly I roll my eyes. Seriously. He’s never been any pundit but like I said, it was Christmas. “The young,” and he points to my beloved granddaughter Kaitlyn who I love dearly and all of her genes came from me Praise the Lord. So she looks a bit like him but hey, I didn’t say he was ugly, did I?
He continues. “The young already are covered with health insurance.” I am surprised because, yes they are. SCHIP it’s called. “The elderly and disabled have Medicare.” I raise eyebrows at his discourse. “So the able-bodied, like me, when we get sick we pay more. We pay into Medicare. We pay more in health care costs because we have to help carry the Spanish (he used a derogatory term) and illegals. But hey, the able-bodied carrying the weaker, WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS?”
I was struck dumb. Oh only for a moment but he’s right! He goes on...”If you need health care, you GO TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM! They can’t turn you down.” Heh. Still he is right. He gets it. “If I need hospital treatment or some such, I’ll either get Medicaid if I’m eligible or I’ll have to pay Five bucks a month for the rest of my life.”
Well see, I wish he had health care but then how you gonna get this if you don’t believe in such as steady jobs? He and my daughter live a life of hand to mouth but they are happy, yes they are, and I’ll tell you true, if SIL had a medical problem, he’d find a way to get by. Daughter has medicare due to disability cause daughter not stupid enough to be uninsured. Kaitlyn is covered by SCHIP. Hey, I’d never live my life like this, or did I, but what, I’m gonna spend the rest of my life harping on daughter? She knows how I feel and yet, she seems happy being one step beyond eviction.
SIL all day ranted and raved about Obama and damn he was good. He’s going out recruiting folks to vote him out, he’s gonna join tea parties, he says they are taking our freedoms away, he says he wants his daughter to have the country he grew up in.
I almost liked the guy.
So I’m at choir practice last week. One member of the choir, a year prior, said something so rude I really could not stand him. I’d mentioned something about Rush Limbaugh at one practice. This guy, we’ll call him Joe, gave a snarky comment about Rush Limbaugh being a wind bag, yada, yada. By me I don’t think Joe should have to listen to Rush Limbaugh but is it good form to be so derogatory of something somebody else likes? If Joe had said something good about, I dunno, Chris Matthews, I would have bit my tongue but manners are manners.
Last week Joe comes over and whispers in my ear. “You remember what I said last year about Rush Limbaugh?” I nod affirmative. Joe says “I love the guy now. I can’t stand this current administration. They’re going to bring this country down.”
Joe then gives me a thumbs up and I smile big.
I know these are anecdotal stories but here are two distinctly different individuals, both singing the same tune. Joe is a former executive from General Motors, very liberal, at least oncit. SIL is a bit of a heathen who never minded politics and whenever he talked about current events he sounded like an idiot who didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. He’s paying attention now, yes he is, that was very obvious.
What say you?
Additionally, Reid said that people are going to start cheering the democrats for Obamacare. When? I ask this in all seriousness. It didn't happen Christmas eve or Christmas. Not yesterday. No new stories today. Perhaps we should set up a count down clock like Rush did for Algore’s prophesy about the Earth being destroyed in ten years.
People are NOT cheering about this. I'm sure the drivebys will try to sell it as such, but regular people are going to see through that much as the attempted ridicule of the town hall meetings where earlier this year.
I think the dems and the drivebys are going down big next year. It's like somethings in the air. You can smell it.
What say you?
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I love your stories and I think people that never cared about current events, politics are now outraged and paying attention. That..... is a very god thing. Oh, and the cat will eventually come down. It’s probably just enjoying the view for a while. :)