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We have seen this tactic before. Last January, Democrats in Massachusetts sent out a mailer accusing Scott Brown of wanting to deny medical care to rape victims, because he had introduced state legislation providing health care providers with a religious conscience exemption to providing abortion-related services, so long as alternative arrangements were in place. The provision proposed by Brown was almost identical to a provision which was in the Democratic health care bill crafted by Harry Reid. Since such exemption would have applied even to circumstances where the abortion services arose out of a rape, the Democrats played the political...

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Frankly, this is a surprise. Usually Democrats wait until much closer to the election before they start trying to scare the hell out of senior citizens over Social Security and Medicare. This is an unusual election year, though. The Democrats just haven't come up with another issue … so it is apparently time to roll out old faithful. The first scare barrage was fired last week by Richard Gephardt. He says that the Republicans have a "secret plan" to reduce Social Security benefits if they gain control of the House in this election. As soon as Gephardt mentioned the "secret...