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Bushlip
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Etymology
From en Bush lip.
Refers to the pledge "Read my lips: no new taxes" of then-U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
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en politics dated en Bushlips insincere political rhetoric.
en Issues: American humor; Bush bashing with broccoli: what next? Mike Jacobs w:Grand Forks Herald 111th year 273 Grand Forks, N.D. 24 March 1990 Michael Maidenberg 4A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1128530715/ 1 0745-9661 In a House speech, Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman of New York called the president’s “no new-taxes” pledge a “pure, unadulterated crock of Bushlip.”
en 1992-09-25T10:37:50 Glenn Berg talk.politics.misc What will BO GRITZ do as President? BERG.92Sep25103750@malice.cass.usu.edu http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.misc/msg/3764bb3d1ae504a4 It's time to STOP THE "BUSHLIP!"
en 1996-09-20 John Walker Re: NRA Shoots Blanks - Wake Up Gun Owners talk.politics.guns 51ursq$4l9@lurch.isi.edu http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.guns/msg/c7c6df4f6af36bf9 This is Bushlip.
en Robert Landauer New tax ideas only extend states’ pains Sandra Mims Rowe The Sunday Oregonian Portland, Ore. Fred Augustus Stickel 1 September 2002 D4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1090339406/ 3–5 8750-1317 Bushlip (n.) a psychological abnormality, found mostly in politicians, in which a perpetrator expresses concern for a victim’s plight, then compulsively behaves in a manner to aggravate it. The new tax-reform ideas would make matters worse for the states and “could further offset any stimulus benefit,” a Brookings Institution working paper said last week. In other words, Bushlip. By proposing to make the changes permanent, they also work against the long-term revenue picture and make it tougher to deal with Social Security and Medicare. In other words, Bushlip.
en Anthony Callender [Letters] What Bushlip! w:Newsday 63 288 New York, N.Y. Newsday Inc. 18 June 2003 A30 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/709259125/ 3 0278-5587 What Bushlip! It was the father who started it. As a presidential candidate, Vice President George Bush asked the nation to read his lips. “No new taxes,” he said. Later, as president, Bush introduced new taxes. We now know that he was talking Bushlip. Then came the son, George W. Bush, who said we must attack Iraq because it was a threat to the United States. He told us that Saddam Hussein was linked to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Where was the proof? None has been found, and do you know why? Because there was no proof. It was just the same old Bushlip.
en 2008-01-12 1X2Willows Re: Danu/Dana alt.religion.druid fmcbf1$auh$1@news.albasani.net http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.druid/msg/ad515a71c3f1b2ab Jesus was an Aryan and got killed by the inferior Jews only because they were envious and unable to accept his spiritual superiority yadda yadda and similar bushlip.
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