The old man affectionately mussed his grandson's hair.

great-uncle (an uncle of one's mother or father)

"Watch was drunk; I crawled down ahind the whiskey.

Instead of helping to educate his constituents or move the debate ahead, he provided more red meat for fulminators, erroneously insisting that the rival House health care bill features “a government program that determines if you’re going to pull the plug on grandma.”