Democrats damn themselves with no-shows at hearing on fraud

As Republicans expose fraud in the tens of billions in Medicaid and other welfare programs, Democrats’ response is to ..

. duck.They made it glaringly obvious last week as Sen.Rand Paul chaired a Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting: Nearly all the panel’s Dem members were total no-shows; only Sen.

Gary Peters attended at all, and only long enough to ask a few questions before heading for the door.The hearing actually covered two very different fraud topics:Strange: Dems have extremely strong views on both issues.They’ve been slamming Republican moves to trim Medicaid and other welfare outlays for years now, denouncing anti-fraud measures as “savage cuts”; Senate Dems are even now using the filibuster to prevent a floor vote that would pass the SAVE Act to counter voting fraud.Yet they simply boycotted a hearing where they could have poked holes in GOP claims as they grilled the witnesses.Do they think their own case is so weak that they don’t dare even try to make it?...