Word: tooism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which means Labour is fairly seen as a Tory clone. Thatcher's success, especially, made reforming Labour both necessary and possible, and she regularly complains about a "conversion of convenience" while insisting that "imitations are still fake." Newspapers like the Independent rail about new Labour's "miserable, defensive me-tooism...
Forbes' rise in the polls has led to a case of me-tooism among his G.O.P. rivals, several of whom quickly announced their flat-tax plans last week even while attacking Forbes' scheme as favoring, in Pat Buchanan's barb, "the boys down at the yacht basin." Buchanan and Senator Phil Gramm offered single-rate tax plans that would retain the popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions and would tax investment income. A long-shot candidate, self-made tire magnate Morry Taylor, asks why Forbes would charge him nothing on the $15 million he collected last year...
...details. Tsongas' writings are full of "we should consider this" and "we should think about that," and the latest addendum to his 85-page booklet, A Call to Economic Arms, casually borrows some of Clinton's stronger proposals -- but only, it seems, for political cover, since Tsongas' transparent me-tooism is only sporadically fleshed out. On some matters, however, like the wisdom of a middle-class tax cut (which Tsongas opposes and Clinton supports) and the idea of adjusting entitlement-program payments like Social Security to a person's income (which Tsongas is more willing to consider), Tsongas is clearly...