A LITTLE TRUTH TELLING - AT 9:18 A.M. ET:  Ah the spin, ah the noise, ah the anguish.  The liberal Dems are beside themselves trying to condemn those who have come out to town meetings on health care.  And the main argument is that these are sinister people who don't represent the country.

Problem is, they probably do, as the Washington Times notes:

The White House's claim that large and boisterous protests against health care reform over the past week have been scripted performances, underwritten by industry lobbyists and the Republican Party, continues to run into a stubborn reality check: public polling on the matter.

For more than two weeks, polls have consistently shown growing resistance to President Obama's reform proposals, largely because of concerns about the nation's deficit and debt.

"There are a number of statistically valid public opinion polls that show that there has been a dramatic increase in public concern about escalating deficits and debt levels and our nation's increased reliance on foreign lenders," said David Walker, the nation's former comptroller general.

COMMENT:  What is so hypocritical about the liberals' performance is their refusal to deal with some of the greatest abuses that drive health costs up - like out-of-control malpractice suits, the kind of suits that made John Edwards a multimillionaire.  There is absolutely no malpractice reform in the health-care bill now before the House, largely because of the power of trial lawyers in the Democratic Party. 

Again, though, we must urge caution:  Defeating Obamacare is not good enough.  There are serious problems in the health-care system that cry out for solution, and our side must present an intelligent, workable plan of its own, not simply say "no."  The decline in the polling fortunes of the Democrats has not been matched by any increased love for Republicans.  That love will have to be earned.  So far I don't see the effort being made.

The great conservative columnist, Charles Krauthammer, who is a medical doctor, wrote recently of the vast inefficiencies in our current system.  If the GOP focuses on eliminating those inefficiencies, it will have made an enormous contribution, without wrecking American medicine in the process.  There's work to be done.

August 10, 2009