Oh by the way, I think that budget deal ( aka that broke “No new Taxes” ) was pushed by Darman and Sununu. They were the Establishment we are rebelling against now, we were to stoopid to know they were Shtuping us back in the day....
Well that didn’t help either. Bush never should have given absolutes. That is the dumbest thing any President can do. You never know what the environment is going to be when you get into that seat. It is EASY to say whatever you want while campaigning, but when reality hits you over the head, you are screwed if you promised something that is impossible to happen.
“Oh by the way, I think that budget deal ( aka that broke “No new Taxes†) was pushed by Darman and Sununu.”
It is said that Darman came running into to the Oval Office screaming: “We got them, we got the Democrats!”
He was SO HAPPY with the promised budget cuts and that he FINALLY put to bed the “gridlock” claim of the media that he didn’t even care about the tax increases, or more likely, was clueless regarding the political cost.
The ONE PERSON that could have saved Bush on that was Lee Atwater, but the Dems managed to take him out with brain cancer (not sure how they did that, but it worked - maybe got something hot placed in his home).