Can Obamacare withstand the August heat? When House Republican leader John Boehner left Washington less than two weeks ago, he predicted Democratic lawmakers would face a long, hot summer of discontent on health care with the folks back home. His prognosis now looks like a precise political CAT scan.

Town hall protests dominate the news–not discussions about public plans, employer mandates, or bending the cost curve. Did scores of Americans add Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals to their summer reading list?