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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBarbara Bush is shocked that "compromise has become such a dirty word"????
Are these people incapable of introspection? Does she not see the role her husband and sons have had in fostering this type of discourse? I nearly threw the remote at the teevee.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)Go jump in a lake Barbara..........mother of the worst President to ever walk the Earth
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)The woman is such an elitist that Rmoney would tell her to tone it down a few notches.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)she finally realized just how destructive the monster her family and friends created has become.
rexcat
(3,622 posts)she and the rest of the family is not that introspective!
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,447 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)libinnyandia
(1,374 posts)bad as their husbands. Though that isn't saying much.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)ability. "Nobody hates like Barbara Bush" or something like that.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"Once he became president, however, Bush raised taxes as a way to reduce the national budget deficit. Bush refused many times but was making no progress with a Senate and House that was controlled by Democrats. Bush eventually agreed to a compromise with Congressional Democrats to raise several taxes as part of a 1990 budget agreement."
but then because he compromised, he got stabbed in the back - by Democrats
"Bush's eventual opponent Bill Clinton used the broken pledge to great effect late in the campaign. In October 1992 a television commercial, designed by campaign strategist James Carville, had Bush repeating the phrase to illustrate Bush's perfidious nature. It was regarded[by whom?] as one of the most effective of all of Clinton's campaign ads. The tax reversal played a central role in reducing the public's opinion of Bush's character."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_my_lips:_no_new_taxes
Seems to me that the Clinton betrayal helped to set the stage for - no compromises, because if you do compromise, they will use it against you.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)They are very much so responsible for this situation.