From: popec@rivdell.sccsi.com (PopeC)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Pritchett's fantasies
Date: 10 Sep 92 03:24:03 GMT
Organization: Rivendell BBS / Hou, TX. / +1 713 941 2236

Back on Sept. 3rd, I promised to dissasemble one of Jim Pritchetts posts 
most thoroughly.  Well, it is time for that.  

Pritchett's post:
>The Democratic leadership could care less about the deficit.  They 
>wanted the tax increases so that they could embarress the president.
>It worked!

Pritchett is here talking about the outcome of the famous 1991 budget 
summit that Bush called when the deficits were sky rocketing and the 
economy was going down the toilet.  I have seen lots of letters to 
editors in papers and magazines and heard lots of oafish radio call ins 
where this myth is passed on gleefully.
  Lots of idiotic neoconservatives believe that Bush was but a little tax 
virgin.  And that he unwarily let the big burly brutish tax demon 
democrats into the Whitehouse, where they savagley yanked up his little 
virgin's pinafore, yanked down Bush's little no tax panties and bruatlly 
rammed a tax increase down the prez, much against her will.  Then 
chuckling fiendishly, they left for the election campaigns while poor 
little Bush cried his eyes out, reputation unfairly besmirched.  Merde!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Lets go back to january of 1990.
  Houston, Chronicle  January 27 1990
NO NEW TAXES PLAN MAY HOLD SURPRISES
  While the president proclaimed that his 1991 spending plan would slash 
the deficit in half without raising taxes, the budget (taht Bush 
proposed) actually included a hodge-podge of increases in taxes and user 
fee that would bring in an additional $21.7 billion in the 1991 fiscal 
year, which starts in Octaber.
  The bush budget propese $15.7 billion in new tax revenue, which is 
offfset by $1.8 Billion in tax cuts.
  In addition, the president has proposed raising $5.6 billion in new 
user fees ..... $1.6 billion in the sales of government assets and $600 
million in other new reciepts, bringing the total to $21.7 billion.


Here we have it.  Our lil tax virgin is not exactly a virgin.

Let's go to May.
May 9 1990 Houston Chronicle
Washington - With the "no new taxes" taboo lifted by the Whitehouse, 
president Bush and REPUBLICAN congressional leaders began the treacherous 
task of considering tax increases according to a participant in the 
talks.  A range of suggestions for revenues - including a national 
lottery, a one cents federal sales tax and higher taxes on tobacco and 
alcohol are a "part of the mix" said ..... Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming.
  
Note that the Prez was talking tax increases here, with his Republicans, 
Jim.  Not the Dems.  He's now obviously a shameless lil tax whore.

Houston Post  Feb. 9 1990
  At theJoint economic Committee, chairman Lee hamilton, D. Ind., 
Challenged Bush's CLAIM OF HAVING MET HIS CAMPAIGN PLEDGE OF NO NEW 
TAXES. 
  "in the budget, you submitted 33 revenue changes and 20 of them raise 
revenue.......

And the Prez was a shameless liar to boot, Jim.  No surprise here tho'!

And this!  Jan 27 1990 
  Bush proposes to use the growing surpluses in the Social Security trust 
fund to reduce the debt accumalulated over more than a decade.
 
In other words, our payments to S.S. that were supposed to be invested 
for our future when all us babyboomers retire were instead turned into 
another damned tax.  And that is exactly what it is too.  A tax!

Now, I know ol' Jim here will probably bellow that them damned ol' demon 
Dems were MAKING our little tax virgin do all these things. It's their 
fault!  Yeah?  Let's see wht the reaction in the Democratic Congres was 
to Bush's call for raising taxes.

Houston Post, May 10, 1990
  Some democrats have voiced concerns that the administration may be 
trying to trap them into advocating election year tax increases

Houston Chronicle  May 16 1990
  Republicans and democratic leaders emerged from the meeting with little 
to say of substance, having agreed to say little in public, until some 
kind of agreement is near.  But the Democrats wary of being blamed by 
Republicans for tax increases as part of the overall remedy, said that 
they were looking to Bush to maje the first move.  that includes any talk 
of a tax increase.

Houston Chronicle  May 11 1990 
Washington - The White House Thursday disavowed comments by Chief of 
Staff John Sununu that President Bush would reject all tax increase 
proposals.............

"It's safe to say they're going off the wall" over Sununu's comment 
observered a Senate aide close to one of the Democratic leaders.

"Sununu's saying that the Democrats are going to push atax increase on 
the president.  That's exactly what the Democrats feared they'd start 
saying. So he's comfirming their fears.  
  Senator Lloyd Bentson .... who will participate in the White House 
budget talks ......  also expressed concern that Sununu's remarks are a 
contrdiction of what the president has said.
  "What is amusing about the whole thing is that the president, in the 
budget he sent us back in January had several billions of dollars in tax 
increases in ti........

Well, now does this sound like a congress bound to ram taxes down an 
unwilling president?  No?  Sound more like a bunch of nervous nellies 
holding back until the President in the private sessions does that 
himself.  They suspect another Reagan type dirty trick and ain't bout to 
push taxes.  

Houston Chronicle May 13, 1990
"We're not going to be the first one jumping through that hoop of raising 
taxes" said one Senate aide
The aide said that the Democrats are suspicious that Bush's call for a 
summit may be no more than an election year ploy to draw them into 
supporting a tax hike.  They want the president to make the first move.
  "We've been burned one too many times to stick our necks out again" 
siad the aide.  "This is a test of Presidental leadership".


And so then dear friends, where did all the tax increaes ideas come from?

Houston post May 21, 90   Evans & Novak
The Republican floor leaders, Senator Robert J. Dole and Rep. Robert H. 
Michel, exited the preliminary session releasing pent up desires for 
higher taxes.  Attempting to modify that impression, Senate Minority Whip 
, Alamn Simpson ruled out income tax increases and ruled in every other 
levy known to mankind.

But then this is only what Bush himself did in January, wasn't it?
Actually, Bush earlier ruled out Income tax increases.  Appaently Simpson 
was only following white House orders here.  

May 8 1990,  Houston Chronicle
  House republican leader Robert Michel of illinois said Sunday, after 
the meeting with administration officials and other Congressional 
leaders, that all parties agreed that tax increases would have to be on 
the table.  
 
This of course includes the republican congressional leadership, and the 
White House.  Thye Democrats in congress did not force this on the White 
House.  More the other way around.

Houston Post  June 27, 1990
A BUSH REVERSAL - RAISE TAXES
  Washington - Less than two years after he dramatically told American 
Voters to "read my lips", president Bush on Tuesday acknowledged on 
tuesday that the Nation's budget woes can't be tackled without tax 
increases.

On Tuesday, Bush issued a statement saying it is now clear to him the 
size of the deficit and the need to reduce it required several things - 
including "tax revenue increases."

The President has concluded that tax increases are neccesary.........

Smoking Gun!   THe Dems had made it clear that THEY WERE NOT going to 
raise taxes for Bush, that they did not trust him, and Bush did indeed 
officially do the deed!  Here It Is Jimbo!   

"It is clear to me that both the size of the deficit problem and the need 
for a package that can be enacted require....tax revenuue increases.
President Bush    June 26 1990

Bush started out 1990 raising taxes and when challenged, stuck his neck 
out and asked for raised taxes.  Bush Jim.  Not Congress who POINT BLANK 
REFUSED TO DO HIS DIRTY WORK FOR HIM!
No more of yer revisionist neocon slander and smear pseudo histories of 
the big tax increase of 1990.  The Congress did not do this jsut because 
they wanted to screw Bush.  Bush screwed himself.  You know nothing at 
all about this, never did never will probably, judging by yer posts.

Actually i have a lot more clippings here that are germane, but I tire of 
reading 'em and fiding the juiciest bits and typing 'em for this post.
maybe a few more later.  Just think of that tho' before you come back and 
shoot off yer keyboard on this subject.  You don't no horse doody about 
what went on in 1990 and you might further embarress yerself.


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