21.  Responding to the Democratic attacks, Treffinger denied that he had manipulated the budget figures.

22.  Rep. Phil English has been in office for one year and has managed to survive vicious Democratic attacks during the Medicare debate.

23.  Republican insiders argue that voters are sick of the Democratic attacks on the Speaker, and they say that GOP Congressional candidates can readily deflect the attacks.

24.  Republican strategists, however, dismiss the effectiveness of the Democratic attack.

25.  She was angered by Democratic attacks, and she drew comfort from sympathy calls from her prominent Republican friends.

26.  So far, the ongoing Democratic attacks do not seem to have stuck.

27.  So what, exactly, are those fearsome Democratic attack ads going to say?

28.  Surprisingly, even the most aggressive Democratic attack dogs have so far tended to blunt their assaults on McCain.

29.  That strategy helped House Republicans defend themselves two years ago against Democratic attacks when they passed a similar bill to add drug benefits to Medicare.

30.  The change, they said, would limit the interest paid to the Social Security trust fund, leaving Republicans all the more exposed to Democratic attacks.