At the health-care summit: "President Obama won. So did congressional Republicans."

That means the losers were the congressional Democrats.

Among the Republicans, it seems that Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan was especially good:



If that's characteristic of the Republican's vigorous, incisive style — and that's the way it looked to us as we streamed the video — the Democrats came across looking frenzied and not well-grounded in sound policy. There were these random hard-luck stories. This is typical:



One feels sorry for the woman who wore her dead sister's dentures, but it doesn't establish that one policy is better than another. It's just a nervous cry to hurry up and do something. Do something... anything! That's not the way I think.