It's for the Children

Don't you know it...

...it’s worth asking: how may kids who sent a letter to the president asking him to solve a gun violence issue sent their letter because they wanted to, and not because some Democratic candidate-supporting teacher union goon forced the kid to do so?

And if we're using kids as political props, how about this...

John Boehner sits in his office. He is surrounded by children and heaps of letters from other children.

He smiles and bounces one of the children on his knee.  The camera comes into sharp focus on Boehner's face. He explains that all these children surrounding him, and all the children who sent these letters that are piled before you, have only one wish. 

Stop the deficit spending by holding the debt ceiling.

DB says, forget about abusing the poor kids, our current fiscal path will blow up in our faces within ten years easily, maybe much sooner.  The kids have a hope of crawling out of the wreckage by the time they hit adulthood, it's us we're royally screwing.