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ROGER KIMBALL: The bad news is that Senator Ben Nelson is not up for reelection until 2012. Th?

By Glenn Reynolds

ROGER KIMBALL:

The bad news is that Senator Ben Nelson is not up for reelection until 2012.

The good news is that today, December 19, 2009, is the day we got clarity on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid effort to steal medical care and call it ?reform.?

I hope that Ben enjoys his final two years in the Senate.

OK, that?s not quite right. Since it was Ben Nelson of Nebraska that finally got Harry Reid his desperately needed 60th vote for socialized medicine, I hope 1) that the next two year are unpleasant for Sen. Nelson and 2) that he loses in 2012 by a landslide.

I?m still not being entirely candid. Nelson is a pathetic pawn in this game. He?s history and I hope he has plans for a new day job. He?ll need ?em.

The really bad news is that the American people are just about to find that their medical care got a whole lot worse and a whole lot more expensive and cumbersome. . . . I suspect that the ?tea parties? of the last several months will look like modest dress rehearsals once people get a handle on what the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate are attempting to do to us.

I hope they’re properly angry.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 20, 2009 (boomark / email).