Word: buchananism
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...Weren't you for Pat Buchanan when he was running against Bush in the primaries...
...going to be like Buchanan and go from being a pundit to a politician...
...Union address proposed a grab bag of tax breaks for favored investors and industries including real estate. Bush's proposals fell flat with Congress and the public, in part because of their tardiness: 17 months after the recession had begun. His poll ratings continued to slide. And when Pat Buchanan made headway against Bush in the Republican primaries by chiding the President for his turnabout on taxes, Bush repudiated the breaking of his tax pledge in 1990 as "a mistake." This was yet another refusal by the President to sell the public on the need for sacrifice and compromise...
...much that Bush regretted the substance of what he had done. Mostly, he admitted, he regretted the political "flak" he was getting for the move. Nor did Bush wish he had done more to cut spending instead of raising taxes; running against Buchanan, Bush now posed as the defender of Social Security and Medicare subsidies...
...This is a time when we all need to become friends of Somalia," said Buchanan. "We must contribute from our own pockets even though some of us are having difficult economic times right...