The Buckeye Institute's Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow Ken Blackwell weighed in on SCHIP last week. He had an interesting take on it, likening it to something out of Alice in Wonderland:

"In 'Alice in Wonderland,' during the tea party, the Mad Hatter sat down to a beautiful white linen tablecloth. He proceeded to make a mess in front of himself, but instead of cleaning up, he just moved to another spot and made another mess. And so on down the table.

"The other day, I realized that parable was applicable to the government-run State Children's Health Insurance Program.

"If Lewis Carroll were writing today, he might include members of Congress along with the fantastically unusual beings on the other end of the looking glass. Carroll's narratives seem to peg the essence of big government. His characters certainly embody government run amok. They often worked mindlessly, creating messes that others had to clean up."

Of course, Alice's adventures end with her realizing it was all a dream. Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury with the surreal SCHIP debate.