Looks like the State Children's Health Insurance Program might have a second shot at life, after all. Or maybe not.

President Bush's budget proposal for 2009 – his last – reached Congressional computers last week just before the Super Tuesday drama swept the announcement into yesterday's news pile. (For the first time, the budget shipped via e-mail in a bid to save a few trees.)

Predictably, nearly every Democrat – and editorial page writer – groused about the size of the plan, and the deficits it would continue to ring up. Like that's never happened before.

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