Voters send a message to Washington, and get an ugly response.

By Peggy Noonan, in Wall Street Journal

• At the moment the Democrats are looking like something they haven’t looked like in years, and that is: desperate.
• They’re citizens. They’re concerned. They deserve respect.
• But you can’t get people to leave their homes and go to a meeting with a congressman (of all people) unless they are engaged to the point of passion.
• This is democracy’s great barbaric yawp.
• ...there comes word that John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO has announced he’ll be sending in union members to the meetings to counter health care’s critics. Somehow that doesn’t sound like a peace initiative.