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	OnlineColumnist®.com: Read My Lips
		Little did anyone know in 1992 that the occupant of the White House — George H.W. Bush &; mouthed his now infamous words "Read my lips" [no new taxes], betrayed his base and proceeded to raise taxes.
		With the economy stuck in neutral, the electorate crossed over and elected Democrat William Jefferson Clinton.
	www.onlinecolumnist.com /081199.html (956 words)

	Read My Lips - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Read My Lips is the first solo album released by pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
		The title was presumed to be based on a quote by US president George H. Bush from before his election in which he said he wouldn't raise taxes; actually, it's simply based on a line from the song "The Universe is You".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Read_My_Lips (194 words)

	Encyclopedia: Read my lips: No new taxes
		The exact phrase "Read my lips: No new taxes" was used first in the New Hampshire primary, and throughout the primary Bush's pledge not to raise taxes was a consistent, if not central issue.
		"Read my lips: No new taxes" was a famous pledge made by Republican Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush at the 1988 Republican convention in his acceptance speech on August 18.
		The impact of the speech was considerable and helped Bush win the 1988 United States presidential election, but when he raised taxes during his time in office the clips became potent ammunition for his adversaries during the 1992 presidential election campaign.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Read-my-lips:-No-new-taxes (1128 words)

	Read my lips: Taxes going up
		When he says: "Read my lips: no new taxes,'' he wants us to make no mistake about it - there will be no new taxes when he is in the White House.
		I mean, George Bush is always saying "read my lips,'' so I assumed that this was a common Republican skill.
		Read my lips: You are worse than chicken.
	weber.ucsd.edu /~vcrawfor/Royko.html (516 words)

	Taxation, A Preface, by Joseph J. Minarik: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Taxation was a principal issue in three consecutive presidential elections—with a large tax cut as a winning issue in 1980, a tax increase a losing issue in 1984, and a pledge of "Read my lips: no new taxes" providing one of the enduring images of 1988.
		In recent years taxation has been one of the most prominent and controversial topics in economic policy.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/TaxationAPreface.html (2750 words)

	Campaigns & Elections: Peggy Noonan
		Noonan wrote his "1,000 points of light" acceptance speech and is credited with the infamous '88 line "Read my lips--no new taxes" that returned to haunt the president in the '92 campaign.
		Read her lips; Peggy Noonan is back in the game.
		Noonan, a speechwriter in the Reagan White House, announced a three-month sabbatical from her Wall Street Journal column to volunteer for the Republican '04 cause.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_8_25/ai_n6330557 (2750 words)

	Newspeak in Richmond
		Our good governor campaigned on a “read my lips — no new taxes” promise and is now actively thwarting the will of the people who elected him based on his “no tax increase” platform.
		Orwell would have loved the fact that our governor insists that we need to increase taxes to be able to afford additional tax cuts.
		He now seeks even higher taxes, while making sure that voters are not given a choice or allowed to participate in the debate.
	www.baconsrebellion.com /Issues04/02-16/Newspeak.htm (740 words)

	AlterNet: It’s Still the Economy, Stupid
		But where his "read my lips" father was famously forced to raise taxes, the son is stubbornly sticking to an extreme conservative mantra: Spend more money on the military while cutting taxes for the wealthy and running a huge budget deficit.
		We all remember the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” It was made famous by political strategist James Carville, who hung it on a sign in Bill Clinton's Little Rock campaign office to keep everybody "on message" in the 1992 election.
		In the end, the big question is not whether Bush will push his tax cut through, but whether it will have any significant impact on the job problem in the United States.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=15917 (1802 words)

	Responsible Wealth
		BOSTON—A group of wealthy Americans today announced that they would turn down their share of the $69 billion in tax cuts that went to the wealthy in 2004, and they called on other wealthy people to redirect their federal tax breaks to support fairer taxes through a campaign called the Responsible Tax Pledge.
		"If you want to give out tax breaks, if you want to prime the economy, then do it for working people," she says.
		Read their lips: Taxpayers are willing to pony up more
	www.responsiblewealth.org (1802 words)

	Homefind.com
		New England’s top banker is apparently challenging President Bush to read her lips - and raise taxes.
		Despite a recent slowdown, Greater Boston’s housing market isn’t on the brink of repeating its 199...
		That familar Boston storyline may get played out again as Teradyne prepares to shutter its longtime Boston headqua...
	hf.heraldinteractive.com (281 words)

	Sen. Gore Scores White House on Bush Tax-Pledge Flip-Flop
		The White House, however, dispatched Fitzwater Thursday to make clear that the statement was not a revisiting of his 1988 "read my lips, no new taxes" promise.
		Fitzwater for being such a good lip reader and interpreting the president's comments because otherwise the nation might have been fooled into believing the president meant what he said."
		Gore was in Kentucky to meet with a panel of families who had risked losing their jobs by taking time off to care for an ill or injured family member.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V112/N39/gore.39w.html (530 words)

	Taxation, A Preface, by Joseph J. Minarik: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Taxation was a principal issue in three consecutive presidential elections—with a large tax cut as a winning issue in 1980, a tax increase a losing issue in 1984, and a pledge of "Read my lips: no new taxes" providing one of the enduring images of 1988.
		Taxation was also the subject of two major, and largely inconsistent, policy changes.
		Efficiency means that taxation interferes as little as possible in the choices people make in the private marketplace.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/TaxationAPreface.html (530 words)

	Read my lips: Taxes going up
		Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, Nov 3, 1988, p.
		He stared at my face for several seconds, then said: "What's wrong with you?
		PUT UP OR SHUT UP; AND STOP THOSE LIPS
	weber.ucsd.edu /~vcrawfor/Royko.html (516 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Read my lips �
		Editor's note: In collaboration with the hard-hitting Washington, D.C., newsweekly Human Events, WorldNetDaily brings you this special report every Monday.
		Last week, Human Events Associate Editor Joseph A. D'Agostino and Assistant Editor David Freddoso were able to pose the question to 13 of these senators and hope to question the other 17 soon.
		But thanks to the First Amendment and offices located on Capitol Hill, the editors of Human Events are able to at least partially fill this news vacuum by putting the question in person to incumbent lawmakers seeking re-election.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28943 (516 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Tapped:. by . May 20, 2002.
		Lieberman's pre-emptive defense against GOP charges of wanting to "raise taxes": "Read my lips: keeping current tax rates is not a tax increase." Not great, but it'll have to do.
		The Washington Times, normally a reliable defender of GOP interests, comes out and says what no other paper quite does: Recent vague warnings by Dick Cheney, Robert Mueller, and Don Rumsfeld are politically motivated.
		If Lieberman keeps this up, Tapped will have to take back all the mean things we said about him.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2002/05/tapped-s-05-20.html (9625 words)

	Encyclopedia: Richard Darman
		He is criticized by some economists for being too focused on the budget deficit and is sometimes blamed for convincing Bush (41) to renege on his promise of Read my lips: No new taxes, which is widely believed to have contributed to Bush's defeat in the election of 1992.
		Richard (Dick) Gordon Darman was born May 10, 1943.
		Darman was regarded as provocative and intelligent by Washington insiders.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Darman (919 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Buchanan's highly original reading, Bush père got in trouble not by famously reneging on his read-my-lips-no-new-taxes pledge but by embracing--you guessed it!--"the Hong Kong values of the Wall Street Journal." Likewise his son, whom we are told has now fallen under the same spell.
		But those who lived and worked in Hong Kong in its glory days (and there are a number of us here) knew it as something far more elevated: a dynamic testament to the unparalleled peace and opportunity delivered by the marriage of open markets and the British common law.
		Buchanan's mind, no doubt, "Hong Kong values" is not so much about any of these specific differences but about a shared ideology that elevates profits over people.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra?id=110004311 (949 words)

	1988 Bush v. Dukakis
		He called for cuts in the capital gains tax, and promised voters, “Read my lips, no new taxes.”
		The campaign of 1988 was centered on social and cultural issues, such as prisoner furloughs and capital punishment, rather than domestic and foreign problems.
		The Presidential Election of 1988 was one of the most negative.
	www.kennesaw.edu /pols/3380/pres/1988.html (1004 words)

	Memo on the Margin: Vote for Pat Buchanan! 03-27-2000
		I agonized up to the last minute in 1992 and voted for Bush, knowing he was a sure loser, being punished by the electorate for having needlessly broken his "read my lips, no new taxes" promise of 1988.
		Of course, your vote is yours and you can cast it for anyone for any reason, and not have to justify it.
		At the moment, he could not get three votes for it in the Senate and I suspect the House would be even cooler.
	www.polyconomics.com /searchbase/03-27-00.html (902 words)

	Reviews: Predicting New Words
		Who, for example, now remembers bushlips, for “insincere political rhetoric” (after George H Bush’s phrase “read my lips, no new taxes”), chosen as the Word of the Year in 1990, or newt, “to make aggressive changes as a newcomer” (after Newt Gingrich) which tied for first place in 1994.
		You may know that I spend a part of my time browsing publications in search of new words—some of the results appear as Turns of Phrase pieces on this site.
		He points out that successful new words often have multiple births, and shows that words are surprisingly often created as jokes (couch potato, gerrymander, soap opera, big bang) but later become serious and settled terms.
	www.worldwidewords.org /reviews/re-pre1.htm (902 words)

	New Jersey
		New Jersey's Robin Hood; Governor James Florio has a radical idea for this read-my-lips era: face reality and raise taxes.
		New Jersey became a united crown colony in 1702, administered by the royal governor of New York.
		Today, New Jersey, an area of wide industrial diversification, is known as the Crossroads of the East.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108246.html (527 words)

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