ROGER KIMBALL: “The most popular journalist in America at the moment is probably Rick Santelli. . . . When Mr. Santelli spontaneously attacked the administration’s plan to step in and rewrite the contract terms for some–but only, of course, some–mortgages, you could tell that his colleagues at the other end of the video feed were a bit taken aback. Hey, wait a minute: this fellow is calling the whole redistributionist scheme into question! He called for a referendum on the question of whether people like the idea of in effect helping to pay for their neighbor’s mortgage!”