The only Republican to vote for Nancy Pelosi’s disastrous health care bill was Joseph Cao, from inner-city New Orleans.

I have two things to say to Mr. Cao:

First, in supporting your vote, you argued that you did it because health insurance costs “are exploding". But anybody who’s been paying even the slightest bit of attention would know that the Democrats’ bill will cause health care costs to increase even more rapidly.  Therefore, what you must be saying is that you voted for the bill because you believe it will give hand-outs, paid for by others, to your constituents.  There is a name for that sort of economic thinking, which brings me to my second point:

Your father was an officer in the South Vietnamese Army.  How many of your relatives fought and bled and died – and how many young Americans did the same for your family’s country – in an effort to defeat precisely the sort of economic thinking (and the same sort of megalomaniac, ego-driven statists) whom you just joined?

The idea that someone like you, with such close and personal ties to the battle against communism, would now vote like a communist is nothing short of shameful.