Sen. Ben Nelson
Mike Johanns, the other Senator from Nebraska and a Republican, takes on Nelson at The Corner.
UPDATE: Nelson getting a lot of heat back in Nebraska for his sell out. He tells his constituents to stick it. The Nebraska Republican party started a website to collect funds to defeat Nelson when he is up for re-election in 2012.
The Wall Street Journal calls the Senate healthcare bill, “A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve.”
In its latest editorial the WSJ says,
The rushed, secretive way that a bill this destructive and unpopular is being forced on the country shows that “reform” has devolved into the raw exercise of political power for the single purpose of permanently expanding the American entitlement state. An increasing roll of leaders in health care and business are looking on aghast at a bill that is so large and convoluted that no one can truly understand it, as Finance Chairman Max Baucus admitted on the floor last week. The only goal is to ram it into law while the political window is still open, and clean up the mess later.
Obama is sticking to his claim that this government-run healthcare scheme will lower costs for individuals. He says, “Anyone who says otherwise simply hasn’t read the bills.” To that the Wall Street Journal replies, “This is so utterly disingenuous that we doubt the President really believes it.”
The editorial concludes,
The tragedy is that Mr. Obama inherited a consensus that the health-care status quo needs serious reform, and a popular President might have crafted a durable compromise that blended the best ideas from both parties. A more honest and more thoughtful approach might have even done some good. But as Mr. Obama suggested, the Democratic old guard sees this plan as the culmination of 20th-century liberalism.
So instead we have this vast expansion of federal control. Never in our memory has so unpopular a bill been on the verge of passing Congress, never has social and economic legislation of this magnitude been forced through on a purely partisan vote, and never has a party exhibited more sheer political willfulness that is reckless even for Washington or had more warning about the consequences of its actions.
These 60 Democrats are creating a future of epic increases in spending, taxes and command-and-control regulation, in which bureaucracy trumps innovation and transfer payments are more important than private investment and individual decisions. In short, the Obama Democrats have chosen change nobody believes in—outside of themselves—and when it passes America will be paying for it for decades to come.
Read the whole thing here.
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