Backin’ to Burkesville

By Randy Walters
At realhottea.com

He sure didn’t see it going this way
Beaten by Beshear in a hard fought game
He can identify now with Duke’s coach “K”
And he’s Backin to Burkesville with doubts about May. rw
　
　
Like a Barker at an old time carnival Governor Beshear called the senate in and made Senate President David Williams his personal Rube. Beshear and the house voted to accept the senate bill in dealing with Kentucky’s massive Medicaid problem, a bill that called for cuts from programs the house did not want.
It must have appeared that house democrats had come to their senses and decided the wisdom of Williams and his cohorts in the senate was so great and mystical that they just had to go along. It may have seemed that way to Williams, but alas it was StevO who got the last laugh.
According to news reports the governor had assured house democrats that he would line item veto the cuts. So, they had nothing to lose by voting for the senate version. Senate President Williams, on the other hand, had everything to lose, and he lost it.
StevO got the best of him with a swift kick to the softer region that surely made Williams run for the Pepto. Ouch Williams, that has to hurt with dreams of fat cat gubernatorial pay based pension riches. The best laid plans…….
The ever so confident Williams is now news fodder for everyone in the Commonwealth. News service providers are heralding the move by Beshear, but not because they agree with either of the choices on Medicaid, but because of the sheer beauty of the political move Beshear pulled off in Frankfort. It was a real bipartisan effort to solve one of the state’s most pressing issues, Frankfort style.
Of course the people of the Commonwealth were put completely out of the picture on this, and it became just another political move by the folks on both sides of the isle we have come to expect, politics as usual. The significance being the timing of StevO’s whack on his real good buddy, David Williams. Somehow it seems we deserve better, but we elected the Barker and the Rubes, and for now we’re stuck with them. It may take a little while, but eventually their types are being weeded out of the process.
Don’t be surprised to see the Williams-Farmer Campaign Bus going down the highway in reverse. They might as well be “Backin to Burkesville” as far as this race is concerned. It’s too late to change the sign to read, “Farmer-Williams.”