Latest Rasmussen Reports Polls:

• 71% Say Obama’s Policies Have Driven Up Deficit
• 54% Favor Middle Class Tax Cuts Over New Health Care Spending
• Generic Ballot: Republicans 43%, Democrats 38%

In case you missed it, Fox All Stars – Last Night (8/4/09), here is  Charles Krauthammer on the healthcare debate and the characterization by the administration of those town hall meetings as ‘organized’:

- There is a certain irony in an administration denouncing ordinary Americans who get together to express what they believe and to confront authority, when that administration is led by a man who began his career as a community organizer, whose job, as I understand it, is to take ordinary Americans, get them together to express what they believe, and express demands against the authorities.

So it’s unbelievably hypocritical. And, of course, as we just heard, this only happens when you have a conservative protest. It is called a mob. If it’s a liberal protest, it is called grassroots expressing themselves.

Remember, just a year ago under the Bush administration, dissent was the highest form of patriotism. And today it is a kind of either organized anger, it’s a facsimile of anger, it’s unpatriotic, it’s whatever.

Look, there is a genuine revolt against the idea of remaking a [health-care] system when over 80 percent of Americans have health insurance. Five of six of those are happy with their health care, and four of five are happy with their health insurance.

You have an administration arrogantly deciding it is going to tear it all up, start all over, and people are surprised that there are protests, and say that it had to be manufactured? Of course it is spontaneous. [If] people go together on a bus, that’s entirely legitimate, and it ought to be encouraged.

The editors of National Review Online remind us of what is not seen in this piece on The Billion-Dollar Car Crash.

• What is seen?
  • Car sales. 
• What is not seen?