Word: flip-flopped
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After months of clamoring for more high-tech aircraft, Saudi Arabia has reversed the throttle and quietly backed off its request for 72 more F-15 jet fighters. KING FAHD's surprising flip-flop may prove to be a pragmatic move. The Saudis relish their role as Washington's pre-eminent Arab partners in the Middle East peace process, so they would rather not risk embarrassing GEORGE BUSH. The $4 billion transaction would have undercut the President's vow to scale back arms sales to the Middle East and would surely launch a bruising battle between the White House...
Taxes. Well, this one can never work for the Democrats--not with their spend, spend, spend reputation--but at least this time it will not work against them either. Bush's rather sudden post-election flip-flop from "Read my lips: No new taxes" to "Just ignore this tax increase" has robbed him of legitimacy on this very touchy subject. America is not likely to forget the greatest campaign lie in recent history...
...care legislation and a tax-rate cut for middle-class Americans -- will resonate among voters. But like any other incumbent President, Bush has an almost limitless ability to co-opt the agenda. The Democrats have already been forced to respond to Bush's vision of education reform, and his flip-flop on the issue of extending unemployment benefits proves his political suppleness...
...Neil called for area motorists to drive with their headlights on during the day as a sign of their support for the troops. He also derided the "Mickey Mantle congressional delegation" of Massachusetts--a reference to the switch-hitting Yankee Hall-of Famer--for its flip-flop on support for President Bush's policies after the war actually began...
...member states to cut off trade and financial dealings with Iraq. Only nine days later, George Bush said in a speech at the Pentagon, "Sanctions are working." But last month Secretary of State James Baker was telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "They haven't worked." Behind this seeming flip-flop were differing interpretations of what it means for sanctions to work...