72 percent of Americans stand in support of our children's health, and Kansas Democrats such as Governor Sebelius and Representatives Moore and Boyda are continuing to call upon members of the US House and Senate to override President Bush's irrational veto.

Todd Tiahrt supports the President in leaving 34,000 Kansas kids without health care, and it looks like a trio of GOP candidates are willing to do the same.

...Nick Jordan, a Republican seeking to unseat Moore in 2008, says if he were in Congress, he would support Bush's veto.

Meanwhile, the campaign of Republican Jim Ryun, who wants to unseat Boyda, criticized the proposed SCHIP bill. And Treasurer Lynn Jenkins, another Republican who also wants to challenge Boyda, declined to say whether she supported the SCHIP bill or Bush's veto.

Blue Tide Rising made an astute observation last weekend...

Last year Jim Ryun entered a classic car in the Topeka Labor Day parade and covered it in campaign magnets. Jim Ryun, however, couldn't be bothered to be on hand himself. This led one area Labor leader to publicly lament Ryun's parade entry as "an empty gesture, from an empty [House] seat."This year was different. This time he didn't even bother to send an envoy. Neither did Lynn Jenkins. Nor was Sens. Pat Roberts or Sam Brownback. In fact, the Kansas Republican Party was nowhere to be found.

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