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On the issue of whether to call the individual mandate a "tax" or a "penalty," Republicans—like Democrats before last week's Supreme Court ruling—are trying to have it both ways. In a Tuesday morning interview, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus joined the conflicted chorus. Appearing on CNN, Priebus insisted that, like Mitt Romney, he disagreed with Chief Justice John Roberts' ruling that the individual mandate was constitutional under Congress' power to tax, but that that disagreement would not stop Republicans from accusing President Barack Obama of hiking taxes. "Even though I don't agree with it, and even though I agree with the dissent of that opinion, it doesn't mean that the truth is not the truth once the Supreme Court speaks," Priebus said. "And the Supreme Court has stated that Obamacare is a tax, and so since they have ruled that it's a tax, it is a tax." So in election season attack ads—despite top Republicans' on-the-record statements to...