So the media are now reporting that Democrat leaders, bent on taking over health care at any cost, are plotting to set aside customary procedure by using parliamentary dirty tricks to ram through their multitrillion-dollar health care takeover, whether the American people like it or not. If Obama and congressional Democrats do indeed pull the trigger and “go nuclear,” it will not be against congressional Republicans or moderates in the Democratic Party. It will be against the American public, who have had it with politicians in both parties whose solution to every problem has been to grow government and their own power.

If and when this happens, the Democrats may suffer at the ballot box, but even if they lose in the near term, they know that eventually they will come back to power and will again be able to build on their socialist experiment. Lose the battle; win the war.

Labor leader Samuel Gompers, when asked what organized labor really wanted, famously answered, “More.” That just about sums up the goal of the left more broadly. If the government takes over health care, does anyone seriously believe that will be it? That no other industry or company or service will become the next target? Has liberalism anywhere ever been satisfied with its current level of control over human and economic activity? Why do you think government grows as fast and as large as it does? To some, government can never have enough control.