The Plain Dealer’s Thomas Suddes looks past the smoke and mirrors of Ohio Gov. Strickland’s veto of a special ed voucher program.

With a history of Ohio’s aid to private and parochial students to get the reader into the right frame of mind – for examples they’ve been getting busing since the 1960’s, they have a fully constitutional voucher program in Cleveland etc. Suddes points out, without a hint of irony that “Yet predictable though it was, that line-item veto told Ohio parents that Republicans are more likely to empower them than a governor who belongs to the party of choice on abortion – but not on schooling.”

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