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Is it troubling at all that this paragraph, the third in a piece tomorrow’s Post, appears to be the White House’s own description of how they’ll sell their Social Security <$NoAd$> phase-out plan?

The campaign will use Bush’s campaign-honed techniques of mass repetition, never deviating from the script and using the politics of fear to build support — contending that a Social Security financial crisis is imminent when even Republican figures show it is decades away.

Hmmm.

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