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Politics

Bill Clinton Slams George Bush for Raising Taxes

Matt Welch | 12.17.2012 12:15 PM

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That's George H.W. Bush, in 1992. Your latest reminder that politicians will grab any club that's available (and that raising taxes usually isn't very popular):

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  1. Almanian.   14 years ago

    Read my lips - no new parallaxes! Although I guess it depends on how you look at it....

  2. Red Rocks Rockin   14 years ago

    Nothing really new--FDR slammed Hoover for doing the same things that FDR escalated once he took office.

  3. LTC(ret) John   14 years ago

    BOOOOOOOOOSH (the Elder)!

  4. califernian   14 years ago

    shocking news today. Boner caves on taxes. What a shocker.

    1. Gladstone   14 years ago

      I thought more than a few commenters are willing to trade higher taxes for spending cuts? However that assumes that any "cuts" are going to happen.

  5. Corning   14 years ago

    Republicans are the worse sort of monsters!!

    They are behaving like the 1992 head of the Democrat party.

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