Word: flopped
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Although it may seem as if the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, President Bush's reneging on his campaign promise to curb CO2 emissions is far more significant than his father's campaign flip-flop over no new taxes. Taxation of our citizens is, over time, an insignificant event, but this President's reversal presents long-term and life-threatening consequences that are being ignored under the pretext of U.S. economic viability. While his father's about-face was regarded as a political blunder, this President Bush's decision may facilitate a global environmental disaster. CARY GLICKSTEIN...
...embrace the idea that you can?t take seriously the pronouncements of the U.S. president. And that's a very serious situation. When you have policy makers in Beijing trying to decipher the new Bush administration's China policy, you can't afford to be seen to flip-flop - President Bush says something at 5pm, at then at 8pm another official is talking, toning down and revising what the commander-in-chief just said. That is confusing and scary for policymakers in Beijing...
...Bush flip-flop on carbon-dioxide emissions: Looks as though we can't read Dubya's lips either! Like father, like son? SUE HEIGELE Duncanville, Texas...
...album titled Forever, and you're just setting yourself up. Four months after releasing that eternity-promising flop, the SPICE GIRLS may have been struck a fatal blow. Last week Melanie Chisholm (second from left) revealed that while she will "always be a Spice Girl," she doesn't actually want to be in the Spice Girls. "It doesn't really feel that natural to me anymore," said Chisholm. The Spice Girls weathered the loss of Geri Halliwell in 1998, but Chisholm is believed to be the group's best singer--faint praise, perhaps, but when you're an act more...
...fact, this is probably how Bush should have sold his CO2 flip-flop - as a crisis-induced, temporary delay until the skies clear a little (no pun intended) - and it's how a big tax cut can make everybody, from Armey to Bush to Gephardt, look like they're actually reading the financial pages instead of just skimming over the headlines and moving on with their own ideological agenda...