Honestly, if I’m going to be badgered and browbeat by the president every day, kids should suffer a bit as well. The president has been treating the American people like schoolchildren for more than seven months — with another “major address” on health care coming right after he talks to the kids.

When my own brood comes home next week, I’ll explain that in this remarkable nation, anyone can become president — though, hopefully, they’ll choose something more constructive — and that daddies will often hope the president fails. I may even help them with their homework: