Brushed by a scalpel of greatness

[captainsblog]

I didn't stay up long enough to watch the Republican response to Obama's healthcare address last night, so I didn't hear about Dr. No until the wee hours of this morning, but as soon as I saw the name, long before reading about his stellar records as both a physician and a politician (including him being a Birther and having been duped into buying a fake British Peerage), I realized something incredibly frightening:

I used to work with the guy's wife.

Naturally, this Good Ole Boy has completely excised the fact of his Yankee past from his official House bio, but Doc Boustany spent several years among us bad old liberals in Rochester, New York in the late 1980s, as he chose Strong Memorial Hospital for his cardiac residency. His wife Bridget answered my original firm's ad for a collections paralegal, and she toiled away in that job, as many did in my almost ten years there, handling the smaller collection cases, answering unopposed motions at court calendars and, in her case, tellin' the colorful stories of Life Back Home.

Bridget, we already knew, was politically connected- but not on the side you'd expect. Her uncle was long time Democratic Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards, and I think he was between governorships (he served from 1984-88 and again from 1992-96) when she was with us. Her uncle shared more than longevity with his more famous predecessor Huey Long: ol' Eddie got busted on corruption charges after his final term and is, at last report, still residing at the Club Fed facility in Oakdale, Louisiana. 

Eventually, her husband completed his indentured servitude and it was time for them to move back home to the land of cotton, where malpractice suits and attempted purchases of peerages are, unfortunately, not forgotten.  If I ever met the guy, I've forgotten it, but if this is the best you've got to announce your opposition? For Crysake, the guy wanted to be a British Lord. WHERE THEY HAVE SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE!

Comments

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I weep for my Party.

[i-beckygardens.livejournal.com]

When Jim and I were first married we were poor, dirt poor, he worked as a janitor and despite birth control I got pregnant. Yes, his company offered ins, and it would have been half his paycheck, we could have ins, or eat. He made 7.00 to much a month for welfare. I have real problems with forcing people into buying health ins and penalizing them for not being able to. Also, if the gov't wants to do a luxury tax and so on as they do in europe, then have gov't health care for everyone, don't tax us more then make the middle class pay for health ins too. People don't need ins, people need healthcare, it's not the same thing