Health care, Politics, and A bet
by Barry Bauer
I have a theory. I think the recently passed health care bill isn’t intended to help needy Americans. It’s to prepare the nation for the 12 million Illegals who will become American citizens soon. The government needs to fund their upcoming amnesty program that will turn 12 million illegal aliens into 12 million illegal Americans. Many of them already get government assistance but now they want the right to vote.
Abracadabra, insto-presto, and a wave of the wand — the magic happens. Make no mistake about it, what the government has been doing is outside the laws on the books and quite frankly folks, they don’t give a damn. Can you guess what political party 12 millions Illegals will owe their allegiance to?
Instead of pledging allegiance to the flag, maybe we should pledge allegiance to the Constitution.
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Don’tcha get a little mad with politics sometimes? Me too. I’ve met both Brian Calley and Michael Trebesh and consider them to be good and decent men. Both were vying for the Republican nomination for state senator from the 33rd district. Both men had careers involving money, one a banker and the other an accountant. Both have young children. Quite frankly, I didn’t think there was a dimes worth of difference between the two of them. Others may disagree. I voted for Trebesh because he was a candidate from Clinton County. He ran a good campaign only to finish 2nd behind Brian Calley.
Calley was almost immediately picked as Rick Snyder’s running mate for governor of Michigan. That left the 33rd district state senate seat up in the air on the Republican ticket.
It seemed like Michael Trebesh would be the likely successor to Calley this fall. He won the primary vote in Clinton County, but unfortunately that wasn’t enough for Trebesh. Trebesh lacked the backing of such Republican players as Scott Hummel, Alan Cropsey, and Paul Opsommer.
I know it’s politics as usual which probably explains why somewhere around 50% of eligible voters don’t bother to vote. Some days I feel the same way too, but I keep plugging away.
There’s a selection process involving prominent state Republicans in the four counties that makeup the 33rd district. It’s a political party’s right to select a replacement; and when you read the list of those on the selection committee, it includes the who’s who of mid-Michigan government officials.
Although it was rumored that Scott Hummel would be the choice, former state rep. Judy Emmons was selected by the aforementioned committee because, quite frankly, she had the votes where and when it counted. Me, I didn’t think it should be about the political party; I thought it was about the people who voted in the primary — wrong. Almost 13,000 votes in the primary shouldn’t have been discounted so quickly.
What does Trebesh do now? He’ll have to get his foot in the door at another time by winning an election, and not simply come in second. That should remove the “outsider” tag he’s been given.
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I have a football bet with my son-in-law, Scott, on how many regular season games the Detroit Lions are going to win. He says three, I say at least six. If he wins, Betty fixes him, Renee (she won’t eat it), and the McCausey kids a corned beef brisket dinner. And if I win, we get a chicken dinner, 2011 season tickets to the Lions on the fifty-yard line, plus he’ll take me to every game. I hate driving in Detroit.
Scott will be glad to read that the bet is above board and I won’t be backing off. No matter how bad it looks at the start of the season.
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When we start talking about being born in the last century, we began to sound old. Whenever I mention that I was born during World War II, young folks look at me kind of funny. I imagine some day a kid will come up to me and ask, “Did you know Abe Lincoln?”
Get lost kid.
Until the next time . . .