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The Wichita Eagle editorial board’s grip on the obvious remains an iron one:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wasn’t kidding Tuesday when she referred to the legislative body as “the Children’s Congress” in trying to persuade President Bush not to veto the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. As Dana Milbank of the Washington Post noted, this year alone there have been hundreds of bills “for the kids,” including the “Kids Come First Act, the Protect Our Children First Act, the Prepare All Kids Act, the Early Childhood Investment Act, the Play Every Day Act, the Safe Babies Act, the Children’s Dental Health Improvement Act, and the Early Detection of Dyslexia in Children Act.”

But of course — it’s the best way to get all of the liberty-choking legislation for the cradle-to-grave entitlement state rammed through, not to mention the rafts of crap that are attached to them, while the rest of us sit slack-jawed watching American Idol or fricking Survivor. Oppose it for any reason at all and you’ll be painted as “anti-children”.