Our take: Delmar and Louise talk politics
Posted by Clyde Middleton
on Aug 9 2009 Filed under Politics.
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Since the dems have brushed off the health-care experts nee commercial actors Harry and Louise to lead us all over the ObamaCare cliff, we may as well trot out our own experts.
Delmar is unemployed, and has been since the Oil Embargo of 1973. It’s a political stand more than an inability to find a job. He lives in rural Kentucky. The nearest employer to his home is 14 miles. He refuses to buy gasoline because, he says, “the money just goes to them Arabs. That ain’t good.” He’s a Vietnam vet with a bum left leg that prevents him from walking or riding a bike long distances, so he just stays home.
When his unemployment ran out in February 1974, he applied for welfare. His application was delayed because he sent it to Saudi Arabia. After a few months, Louise, a county case worker, was sent to conduct a home study and skills assessment.
After a year of paperwork, Delmar zeroed out on welfare, but did start receiving a military disability check (which he had not previously applied for because, he says, “People get hurt in wars. It’s part of the job. At least I came home. I left too many friends behind.” He sends 10% of every check to the local VFW until he has enough money saved to make it through the year – then he sends the entire check).
Since Delmar never leaves his several-acre plot left to him by daddy, Louise began to do his banking and bring him groceries. The visits became more than supporting a member of the community. Soon, Louise was working his land, which Delmar was converting to a completely self-sufficient farm from electricity to food to water. She moved in during late 1977 after a marriage at sea: Delmar insisted they ride a fishing boat as far as the captain would go. They caught their wedding dinner 29 nautical miles off the North Carolina coast.
Now it is 2009, and Delmar and Louise, in their late 50’s, sit in their backyard talking. A cistern echoes in the background after Delmar tossed a rock at it to check the water level. The garden is ready for another wave of harvesting. A pail of goat’s milk rests between them. Discussing politics is their after-work passion.
Delmar: You catch the O-Factor’s latest Rasmussen Daily, sugarplum? Minus eight.
Louise: Serves him right. First he tells cops they’re stupid for a by-the-book arrest, and now he’s sending union thugs to disrupt town halls.
Delmar: Ayep.
Louise: I just don’t understand how people can see protests where one side has hand-made signs and the other side has pre-printed signs and is directed by a guy with a bullhorn, and then not understand who the real grassroots folks are in this country.
Delmar: There’s a very real uprising among us common folk, isn’t there?
Louise: There sure is, Old Hand.
Delmar: I was looking over the Rasmussens, and something else caught my eye.
Louise: Do tell.
Delmar: Seems the dems don’t like what they got in Congress.
Louise: Oh?
Delmar: Well, last October the legacy media and O-Factor were in high gear on handing over the reigns of government to community-organizing liberals. The ratings for Congress were down. You recall that the dems picked up 21 seats in the House and 8 in the Senate.
Louise: Not counting the traitor from Pennsylvania and that man that wears a diaper.
Delmar: That’s right. Well, in October, the disapproval ratings of Congress was at 56%. Then they got their election and all those seats. Guess what the disapproval rating is now.
Louise: Oh, I love it when you just tell me.
Delmar: 56%.
Louise: Do tell.
Delmar: Did you see, precious, that the dems have converted those two actors that did the “Harry and Louise” commercials 15 years ago to come out in favor of O-Care?
Louise: That’s sad on two levels.
Delmar: What do you mean?
Louise: Well, first of all that our Socialist Overloards have to resort to actors as if they were experts, and use them to convince us that O-Care isn’t the clusterf–k we all know it to be.
Delmar: And?
Louise: That two actors, commercial actors no less, think they are experts on anything but camera angles and vomiting words off a script with an appropriate range of affect.
Delmar: That is sad, yes.
Louise: What do you make of O-Care, Del?
Delmar: Well, I’m presuming it’ll be much like my VA care. The people sure are nice enough, but it’s like they’re operating a run-down car. You gotta give a worker the best tools when you want the best product, and that just isn’t there. I sure feel badly for my doctor sometimes.
Louise: And now they want to take the entire Medicaid-Medicare-VA system and apply it to everyone.
Delmar: It’s a frightening thought. Do you mind if I fart, precious? I’m down wind from you.
Louise: Go right ahead, Old Hand.
Delmar: Thank you. Very kind. RRRIIIIPPPPP!!!!!
Louise: Oh my.
Delmar: Just lost a pant size.
Louise: You scared the rabbits.
Delmar: Happens, yes.
Louise: Where were we? Oh, did you see the Cash for Clunkers fallout?
Delmar: Must have missed that.
Louise: Seems that car donations are down.
Delmar: That’s what happens when you add artificial stimulus to the economy.
Louise: And just watch, next year the unions will be complaining because no one will be buying new cars because they’re getting them all now.
Delmar: Car sales are a bump in a rug, dear. You might create a few new ones, but most are just shifted from one time to another.
Louise: The O-Factor just needs to stop messing with our economy. He’s trying to change everything.
Delmar: From lightbulbs in our home to cars in our driveway to requiring old folks to talk to doctors about dying every few years. It’s shameful.
Louise: Well, the dems got what they voted for.
Delmar: They sure did.
Louise: Good for them. Pass me the ammunition, dearest, I feel like shooting something.
The camera pans out as Louise rises from chair, checks that she has her Bowie knife, and walks into the woods with shotgun pointed to the ground.
To be continued …
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