Last week I wrote about the Wall Street Journal’s execrable, embarrassing Wednesday columnist, Thomas Frank, a man so wrapped up in his own imagined brilliance that he couldn’t think his way out of a paper bag.

The Journal didn’t run my letter assailing him, but these two are awfully good:

LETTERS

Why We Normal Taxpayers Joined Tea Party Protests

In regard to Thomas Frank’s op-ed “From Televangelism to the Tea Parties”:

I, like Mr. Frank, was there, but in my lab coat, on Saturday in front of the Capitol in Washington. I am a physician and this was my first protest, not against reform, but against this reform. This reform does nothing to make insurance more affordable, improve patient choice or allow physicians to make patient focused decisions. Now the government will be in the examination room with you and your physician, and if this was not bad enough, there will be exploding costs, which, in the end, will result in rationing and oppressive taxation at the very least and not just for the wealthy.

This “reform” was done against the public will and made a sham of representative democracy. We were not a group of right-wing protesters chanting slogans in 18th-century diction?anachronistic romantics. There were many Democrats there (many sought me out for my opinion) and these individuals understood that the tentacles of ObamaCare would fundamentally change America. Our exceptionalism is in decline, as we are now on the path to becoming just another debt-laden European socialist backwater.

Erik Dahl, M.D.

Bethesda, Md.

I am a mathematics professor and confess I have also been a “tea partier.” I take offense at Mr. Frank’s characterization of tea partiers as “TV citizens, regurgitating TV history lessons.” For the record, Mr. Frank, I know my history and didn’t learn it from my TV set. What I do know is that history is being made as President Obama adds more to the debt and deficit than all past presidents combined. I also know from my history that no president in power has ever bashed a previous administration in public as Mr. Obama is so fond of doing.

Mr. Frank then goes on to say that, “They seem to care little for the give and take of the legislative process.” Really, Mr. Frank. Really? Where exactly has the “give and take” happened with this health-care bill? Congress voted along party lines with virtually no GOP input, except a few empty gestures of a get-together and a “study” of tort reform.

The “give” part, I suspect, is the ramming and jamming of the bill through in a hurry without even posting online.

I guess I get the “take” part, too, Mr. Frank. The senators and congressman who were “on the take” to cut deals like the “Cornhusker” deal, the “Louisiana Purchase,” and who knows what else.

People like me are angry and tired of the arrogant way this administration and Congress has been governing. We’re not here to entertain you (or journalists like you) acting like reality TV celebrities. We are normal taxpayers who want less government in our lives, not more, and want our voices to be heard.

Mimi Rasky

Professor of Mathematics

Southwestern College

Chula Vista, Calif.