Seeing What You Want To See

 

South Carolina has given the nation Lindsay Graham, Fort Sumter, the first shots of the Civil War and Congressman Ralph Norman, who appeared on the PBS Newshour to answer questions about the Big Beautiful (for Billionaires) Bill which President Trump wants to sign on July 4th.

Asked about cuts to Medicaid which will shutter many rural clinics, including those in South Carolina, the man who has had briefings at the White House and who has, unlike Mad Dog, presumably read the 940 page bill, said that Medicaid will not, in fact, be cut, except for denying Medicaid payments to illegal aliens who don't deserve to get Medicaid anyway.

When Jeff Bennett, the PBS anchor said that illegal aliens have never been eligible for Medicaid, Congressmen Norman informed the viewing public that they may not have been eligible for Medicaid but they got it any way, and that's what's been bankrupting the program and Mad Dog caught a scent of a long ago stench which found some part of his doggy brain.

Oh, right! The Welfare Queen, that lady Ronald Reagan told us about so long ago, who managed to manipulate the welfare system so expertly that she drove around the ghetto in her Cadillac, wearing a mink coat. No need to say what color she might have been, although there was speculation about whether the Cadillac may have been pink.

And Congressman Norman then swung from talking about the BBBB to a panegyric about how President Trump had stopped illegals from crossing the Mexican border. 

Lisa Murkowski, from Alaska, had held out against the bill until Trump did the art of the deal to exempt Alaska from the Medicaid cuts, so she voted for it, in a patriotic act which could be described as "I got mine, to hell with the rest of the country," or simply this is what pork barrel politics is all about, and besides Iowa gets its way when it comes to adding corn alcohol to gas, which has by now become counterproductive as an environmental move, so it's every state for itself, no matter what we call the UNITED States.

Oh, that swamp done been drained. 

Behind the Congressmen, rushing across the halls, one could see kids and their parents in shorts touring the Capitol on their vacations, just normal tourists, like those fresh faced legions who toured the Capitol on January 6, 2021.