The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto. 

Pelosi’s Pig in a Poke
Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned up yesterday at the Washington conference of the National Association of Counties, and she engaged in a little cheerleading for ObamaCare:

You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention–it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.

But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Yes, reader, she really said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” If you don’t believe us, ask YouTube. And Pelosi is not alone in equating knowledge of the bill’s contents to enactment of it. Consider the lead paragraph of this Associated Press dispatch about Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, who cast the deciding vote allowing passage of the Senate’s version of ObamaCare;

A moderate Democrat insisted Tuesday she remained opposed to pushing a health care bill through the Senate with a simple majority vote, despite saying she wanted to see what was in the legislation.

These people are trying to sell us a pig in a poke. Actually, that’s not quite right: They’ve failed to sell us a pig in a poke. At nearly every opportunity, voters have responded to the ObamaCare sales pitch by shouting “No!”–even going so far as to elect a Republican to the Senate from Massachusetts.

But if Pelosi and President Obama have their way, we will get their pig, and will we ever pay for it. Is it any wonder that, as the Associated Press reports, “Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care”?

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