Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon as George Bush won the presidency in 1988, he began planning how and when he would violate his most memorable campaign promise, "Read my lips: no new taxes." Even as he unveiled that pledge in August 1988, Bush knew -- and was reminded by Darman -- that he, like Ronald Reagan, would end up raising taxes to avoid cutting popular middle-class spending programs. In preinaugural interviews, Bush pretended that he was only just discovering the economic time bombs represented by the federal budget deficit and the national debt. "I've started going into the numbers, finally," Bush told TIME...
...from Bush until November 1991, when the economist threatened to resign in protest. Granted an audience, Boskin told the President that the economy was not recovering as quickly as it had from previous recessions because it was struggling under unprecedented burdens, including the huge debts left over from the Reagan era. Among the new hardships were the steep regulatory costs of the Clean Air Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Boskin later bluntly told Bush that he was unlikely in 1992 to see a recovery as strong as Reagan had enjoyed in 1984, or Ford in 1976. Unemployment probably...
...sense, the comet of Limbaugh's rise is the traditional American success story, rewritten for the Reagan-Bush era. Less than a decade ago, he was out of radio and out of work; he was fired from five jobs, broke twice. Now he is rich and famous; this June he was an overnight guest at the White House, and the President carried Limbaugh's bag. His juicy fulminations against "feminazis" (militant pro-abortionists), "commie libs" (pretty much anyone to the left of Archduke Ferdinand) and "environmentalist wackos" (tree huggers) have won him the admiration and courtship of many...
...premium these days," Lear says. "In the land of the sitting and reading dead, Limbaugh's got passion, and thus he's watchable." To columnist Alexander Cockburn (the Nation), Limbaugh's is "a funny act. Humor always helps. But he seems to me the last surviving idiocy of the Reagan-Bush years. It's like those stars that give off light long after they've died. Long after everything Reagan-Bush stood for has collapsed into disaster, the sound waves continue, and you hear this mush peddler carrying...
CRITICS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRAtion call the affair "Iraqgate." The Administration's defenders call it a "witch hunt." Others call it a confusing mess. But whatever the term, the overeager attempts by the Reagan and Bush administrations to make friends with Iraq in the years before the Persian Gulf War -- and later attempts to contain the political damage of that failed policy -- have become yet another problem for George Bush as he struggles against increasingly heavy odds to win a second term...