Word: antitax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budget proposal headed to a House vote, Bill Clinton fended off assaults in Congress from his own party. Fearing an antitax backlash among voters, moderate and conservative House Democrats demanded more spending cuts, in particular caps on Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement programs. Clinton tried to put down the revolt at a meeting with the House Democratic caucus and the party congressional leadership. "If you'll go out on a limb," he told them, "I'll go out with you." But a more dangerous mutiny began in the Senate, where a bipartisan group led by Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma...
...City, New Jersey, five days after the Houston convention, Bush said, "The big point I want to make in this working state is high spending and higher taxes will not do any favors to the American worker." Though Bush helped to almost double the deficit in four years, his antitax , message, says g.o.p. state director Palatucci, "is one that we're going to make over and over again. The contrast on taxes is what's giving us our legs right...
...people turned out at an antitax rally. When you ventured into the crowd, you were spat on and the state police had to hustle you away...
...wife Shelley has a role limited to "taking care of the man running for office," Bay's presence looms large. She is largely responsible for the seat-of-the-pants strategy that complements her brother's smooth stump manner and plays to his strengths. She helped create the effective antitax TV spot that parodied Bush's "read my lips" pledge on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. And it was Bay who advised Pat to pillory the President for < delaying the $500 middle-class tax cut he had promised in the State of the Union address...
Elsewhere the message was mixed, but dissatisfaction with the status quo was the unifying theme. In Mississippi, Texas, New Jersey and Virginia, incumbents were washed out of office by a wave of antitax, antirecession, antigovernment sentiment. Though both parties posted gains as well as losses, the results reflected a sour, throw-the-bums-out mood that threatened officeholders everywhere. Only Washington State seemed to buck that trend by turning down a ballot initiative that would have imposed strict term limits on the state's congressional delegation. But milder term-limitation measures applying to local officials were approved in Houston...