Sun
11
Jul
2010
Words Fell From My Drawers & 'Partial Martial' Law
As I looked to write a story for today I found some words scribbled that fell and sat shadowed in unlight I sometimes call it or shadowed light more accurately. I saw the word 'details' scribbled in crayon and it reminded me of a friend who had a kid with a bad illness that had trouble getting his medical problems corrected appropriately. That's a detail. It's not a word you can fix with a Pat Buchanan approach to politics for instance. In his case his friends hold a forum of well dressed--on tv so we can appreciate them--and focused wealthy people who agree that details need to be worked out--on tv. When they work out an agreement on tv to agree among themselves that details need to be worked out they all toast in their mind to the idea of feeling good about details and the detail is solved. So when the people who voted their candidates/idea into action get to Washington can be appreciated for having details in mind. They are there for something. It's about details and perhaps they're written in crayon by your son or by a friend whose son has details in mind as he sits waiting for paperwork to be resolved to get proper medical treatment. THAT was a detail that was resolved by Congress recently without Republican support of any kind--that's also a detail. The happenstance of writing in crayon a medical problem or unresolved medical isurance crisis reminds us that stories have people attached and the unresolved details are what Republican political candidates live for--details, details, details. It took almost a hundred years for fair medical coverage to be addressed by Congress and it wasn't for a lack of trying. The idea of medical coverage to the Republicans is like giving a gun to an opposing soldier because now he can recuperate after a battle. To give an American coverage is to take a war funding off the gravy train. They really want power more than anything and starting a war is a small price to pay to keep Americans at home unsatisfied. Medical coverage is a big detail but when it comes to being charged with being unpatriotic by the Republicans I guess I deserved it. I didn't know how much they loved the Iraqis and the Afghans. They equally loved the Vietnamese and the Koreans. Do they love the Appalachians and the Kansans as well or the Nevadans and the Idahoans because they suffer for lack of options. You might say they are in a fight against tyranny these people are. Oppose tyranny on the homefront--the war is being fought in your front yard but the bullets are being spent overseas.
There's another detail the Republicans have forgotten to talk about out loud--in voice--on a televised forum. Perhaps Al Hunt can talk about the 'partial martial' law in effect in Virginia's 7th Congressional District. Curiously enough it's the home of the Republican House Minority Whip Eric Cantor. I hear The Whip is actually unable to visit the outward reaches of his district because it includes having to pass by me--Tommy Hayfield--a man the Republicans consider satanical. Like a teddy bear I wait for the Whip to tell us the details of the improved medical coverage that was voted into law under Obama's leadership. There are hundreds of teddy bears in the eastern end of the 7th Congressional District if not thousands. The Whip has the authority to fix the 'partial martial' law in effect in his district if he chooses to lift it so he can go to the pharmacy on Brooks Road. What is wrong?

