mr beagles goes to lansing

You're right, it is the Affordable Care Act, not the American Care Act, i knew that, but it's hardly ever called that and I saw the A and went with American.

I've heard that sometimes Americans cross the border to help themselves to that free health care, but it seems to me that if i was a Canadian I would want people to show proof of Canadian citizenship before i would treat them.  Speaking of which what does consist of proof of citizenship.  Lyin' Ted could show a Canadian birth certificate, but he has just lately renounced that citizenship, but is renouncing enough?  Don't you have to sign some paper, get a lawyer? 

What about drugs?  Can you get cheaper prescription drugs by going north?  I've heard anymore you have to show a passport to cross the border, is that true?  How do you cross the border up there, is there a particular bridge?

I heard there is some chicanery around where the state picks the delegate after the vote.  The state party chooses the people who choose the delegates and if they are Lyin' Ted people they will select the same for the delegates, who will have to vote for Trump on the first, and sometimes the second or the third, ballot, but then they can tear those awful orange wigs off their heads and vote for Lyin' Ted. 

Well you just said that, didn't you?  Sometimes I get so fired up I forget parts of your post.  But I want to say it's not like a caucus where the lowest vote-getter has to drop out after the first ballot, Uncle Johnny can stick around as long as he likes.

Depending on the rules committee.  I did a little reading on this.  There are two committees, one is permanent and I am not sure what they do.  The other consists of 112 members.  Each state selects two and there are a couple more from the district of Columbia and Puerto Rico and Guam, and places like that.  They meet a week before the convention and hammer out rules for that particular convention.

These are the guys who four years ago put in that eight state rule so that they wouldn't have to bother with your man Rand.  This year they could vote that the guy with the most delegates wins it, period.  Or they could vote that nobody who was born in Canada can get the nomination.  If they were smart (har) they would vote to let anybody get it.

But of course that would bring howls from the Trumpists and the Lyin' Tedders.  And of course there are battles in each state capital to see who gets selected to be on the committee, with the Trumpists and Tedders and the party bosses trying to get their man in.  These would be the fabled smoke-filled rooms, if anybody smoked anymore.

I still think that if Trump doesn't take it on the first ballot he won't get it, and the party bosses will realize that they won't need Cruz to beat Trump and drop him like a bad habit, and pick somebody like Uncle Johnny who polls show has the best chance of beating the big girl or the commie.  Of course then the Trumpists and the Tedders will be up in arms, and there will likely be a third party, maybe a fourth, but there are no good outcomes for the reps this year.  That's just my theory and I haven't heard any of my pals, the pundits, suggest it, so maybe there is more to this than I think there is.

I do want to hear the story of your adventure in elective politics.  In what election were you elected precinct captain, the primary convention? 
Well tell the story, I am all ears.

I was just telling my cats this morning as I was coming out of the shower how, the weather being frightful, I may not leave the building today, so I will be around to cater to whatever whim may come their way.  If I was president I would be off on some trip to some exotic place or be in one of those now not smoke-filled rooms, or I would be so aggravated that when they ran across the keyboard and changed all my settings and erased a few files i might raise my voice to them.

Looking up the Capital of Michigan for my title to this post I was surprised to see that it is Lansing. Lansing?  I must have known that pack in grade school days when he had to memorize that stuff but it has fallen out of my mind since then.  How come such a podunk?