Bushlips

English Alternative forms en bushlips en Bushlip bushlip Etymology From en Bush lips, with allusion to en bullshit. Alludes to the pledge Read my lips: no new taxes by then-U.S. President George H. W. Bush.Pinker Steven Steven Pinker 2007-09-11 The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature Penguin Books Words and Community 9780670063277 2007026601 263667454 7641752M 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=jylSITT9ZNUC&pg=PA17&dq=bushlips But most silly coinages go nowhere, such as bushlips for “insincere political rhetoric” (after George H. W. Bush’s 1988 campaign slogan “Read my lips: No new taxes”)...Steinmetz Sol Sol Steinmetz 2010-04-27 There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900 Harmony Books 9780307717634 2009034943 290470352 24269632M 194 http://books.google.com/books?id=DpjjHTN-y-UC&pg=PA194&dq=0375426175+bushlips 1990: Word of the Year Bushlips “insincere political rhetoric” (alluding to George H. W. Bush’s pledge “Read my lips: no new taxes” as he accepted the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in 1988; once in office, he reneged on his pledge)... Noun - en politics derogatory dated Insincere political rhetoric.Metcalf Allan 2004-07-14 Presidential Voices Boston Houghton Mifflin 9780618443741 2004005742 60386369 3290625M 310 http://books.google.com/books?id=Dh0wM9DNjbAC&pg=PA310&dq=bushlips Someone promptly coined bushlips and said it meant “insincere political rhetoric.”http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bushlips Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon bushlips Dictionary.com, LLC 2012 January 26, 2012 en 1990-03-24 Paul Taylor Democratic Leaders Talk Tough on Taxes;President's Promise Not to Impose New Levies Is 'Pure Bushlips,' Sen. Bentsen Declares w:The Washington Post 0190-8286 A6 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72577580.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+24%2C+1990&author=Paul+Taylor&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=a.06&desc=Democratic+Leaders+Talk+Tough+on+Taxes%3BPresident%27s+Promise+Not+to+Impose+New+Levies+Is+%60Pure+Bushlips%2C%27+Sen.+Bentsen+Declares "As one of our colleagues recently put it, this Republican pledge of no new taxes is pure Bushlips," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen (Tex.), said in the toughest language he has used to attack the administration's fiscal policy. "It's Bushlips when the president says 'No new taxes' and sends a budget requiring the Finance Committee to raise $20 billion in new revenues: $15 billion in taxes and $5 billion in user fees." en 1990-09-18 Associated Press Gardner Hoping For No New Taxes w:The Spokesman-Review B1 w:Booth Gardner http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19900918&id=XpIyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_fADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6666,5498148 I'm trying to avoid doing the 'Bushlips' stuff (about blocking tax increases). By saying it's not part of our thinking and planning, I'm obviously not saying it won't occur at all. en 1999-05-20 Bucky Re: Ballot box whores (Was:Take away all guns NOW) alt.current-events.clinton 7i1s5g$s8g$1@garnet.mint.net http://groups.google.com/group/alt.current-events.clinton/msg/56ada71bf2c80f85 Bushlips! en 2002-03-04 The Angry Liberal Social Security Reform, Part I: Bush is Lost in Des Moines BuzzFlash.com http://www.buzzflash.com/theangryliberal/2002/03/tal030402.html Anything short of that is just a lot of Bushlips. 30 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120730033321/http://www.buzzflash.com/theangryliberal/2002/03/tal030402.html 30 July 2012 en See also en bullshit Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year References Further reading American Dialect Society, Word of the Year (1990) en 2-syllable words eponyms