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No, what I meant was that he faced the fact that Reagan left him a debt that could not be sustained by existing tax revenues, so he manned up and and agreed to raise taxes in exchange for spending cuts, in direct opposition to the lunatics in his own party who were scampering around Congress screaming their little heads off.
Bush I was actually a fairly good president who did what was necessary for the country. It's really too bad he didn't get a second term.
He and his son proved that there is little relation between doing a decent job and getting reelected.