Ted Cruz was right. Once Americans get hooked on a benefit, it is all but impossible to take that benefit away.

Which prompts us to recall another lawmaker who was proved right about ObamaCare: Nancy Pelosi. Google the words “Pelosi” and “ObamaCare.” You’ll find all manner of contemporaneous commentary about the then-House speaker’s remark that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” At the time — 2010; lordy, how long ago it seems — the conservative infotainment complex pounced on Pelosi’s words as an unintentional confession that she and other Democrats were unfamiliar with the contents of the Affordable Care Act. In context, however, it was clear Pelosi was saying that voters were being subjected to misinformation about the bill — and that they would like it once the partisan dust settled. She was saying that — follow me out on a limb here — voters would like ObamaCare once the “sugar” kicked in.