MATT WELCH: “After two months of relentless scaremongering by the nation’s elite politicians and journalists, how’s that whole bailout thing doing at the polls?” Not so well. . . . Matt concludes: “Like Dick Cheney, I don’t believe in governing by poll. But that won’t prevent me from taking heart in the fact that, once again, Americans seem to have more instinctive faith in capitalism and less enthusiasm for government blank checks than their elected representatives.”