re: #103 recusancy

And there you have it. We have a huge deficit because republicans wanted to put party before country.

The Republican party had made campaign promises of lower taxes. Moreover, George W. Bush was well aware of the damage his father took for signing a tax increase after promising not to. For him to go back on such a central campaign promise would have crippled him politically, no matter how good the reasons for doing so were. So he kept the tax cuts.