I know it may look like I’m beating a dead horse, or at least a fatally wounded possum, but there are some revelatory comments in this Los Angeles Times piece about Democratic efforts to sneak their health plan into law against the manifest will of the American people. For example:

Almost all of the proponents of a healthcare overhaul are desperate to avoid a repeat of the contentious public debate and deal-making that consumed Capitol Hill last year.
“In a 24-hour news cycle, with the Internet and bloggers and cable news, sometimes a lot more can be accomplished, especially with healthcare, when it happens behind closed doors,” said Drew Altman, a healthcare policy expert who heads the nonprofit Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

That contentious public debate can be a bother. Now really, if any right-leaning foundation president had similarly argued that major legislation ought to be fashioned in secret and enacted through parliamentary tricks, in order not to alert any pesky “bloggers and cable news,” the political class would have (properly) erupted in anger.

As should you.