Comments on: McCain campaign originally stood by Gramm’s comments.

By: jay_severin_has_a_small_pen1s

jay_severin_has_a_small_pen1s — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:48:38 +0000

Geesh! Am I bitter or a whiner? Why doesn’t anyone in power like me?

By: BloggerRadio.com

BloggerRadio.com — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:39:59 +0000

Talk about flip-floppers! McCain and Gramm are both weasels. They should either say what they mean, and mean what they say on the first try of they should shut the hell up!

By: regular_joe

regular_joe — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:52:33 +0000

First, Gramm claims that America is a “nation of whiners.” When it finally dawned on him that his remarks had ignited a fire storm, he backtracked and told us that what he really meant was that “the whiners are the leaders.”

Yeah, right. What an clueless moron!

If the “fruit” of seven years of brain-dead, Republican policies, i.e. stagnant wages, run away inflation, a tanking economy, and $4/gallon gas, upsets you, then you’re a whiner.

So, according to Gramm, over 80% of the American people are whiners. Good to know.

And the McSame campaign stood by that remark — until they flip-flopped… again.

It think McSame should make Gramm his running mate. He’s a bigger horse’s ass than Holy Joe Lieberman!

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:46:52 +0000

Well, of course McLame stood by what Phil Gramm said!!

Until someone told him that it pissed people off…

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:39:55 +0000

Every time we the people see the dollar drop further in value, we know where the problem is. Every time we see Exxon Mobil post record profits, we know where the problem is. Every time we see Congress pass another trade agreement, we know where the problem is. The problem is with the Bush Crime Family. They can try all they want to place the blame for the tanking economy on everyone but themselves, but “we the people” know what is going on, finally….

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:35:21 +0000

But in an initial statement published by Politico and then, seemingly, removed from its site….

If this isn’t proof positive that Political is a right wing tool, I don’t know what is.

By: upside99

upside99 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:06:41 +0000

Maybe Gramm will be his running mate. Seeing as how Jesse Helms kicked the ol’ Bigot Bucket.

By: trollsbwild

trollsbwild — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:55:36 +0000

Gramm could be caught with farm animals and John McCain would still have him in his campaign.
Funny, but I do not recall this much flip-flopping by anyone, yet the MSM keeps trying to paint Obama doing more of it than ol’ Johnny boy.
Hard to believe the polls are as close as they are.

By: Linus

Linus — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:55:11 +0000

Re #4:

misshusseinmolly says: “Lemme guess — all the talking points in this campaign are written in pencil, aren’t they?”

More like an Etch-A-Sketch, or one of those kids’ drawing boards with the plastic film — write, lift the film to erase, write again.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:54:41 +0000

Not only did he insult everyone, when given the opportunity to at least take back the insults, he refused. McCain should totally separate from this ass, including discontinuing all contact for advise.

Mr Gramm, there’s a Rev. Wright on the phone for you.

By: JMOHR

JMOHR — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:50:20 +0000

Gramm is entirely correct. The economy is in good shape with increasing exports. Actually, the balance of trade deficit is only about $700 billion down from nearly $800 billion. GDP is growing. THIS IS THE POINT TO REMEMBER, REPUBLICAN ELITES ONLY CARE ABOUT THE GROSS ECONOMIC NUMBERS AND NOT ABOUT PEOPLE.strong>

What is the purpose of the economy? Republicans believe that it is to generate the most amount of money and growth for a certain segment of the population. It does not matter whether individuals do well. Democrats believe in economic growth as well. However, they also believe that the economy should grow in a manner which enhances the economic well being of the people in general.

How do we get the point across?

1. We have had the most anemic economic growth coming out of a recession since WWII. Bush has lagged behind in term of GDP growth, employment growth and income distribution.

2. We have seen the benefits of this economy go almost exclusively to the to .05% of the United States.

3. Republican economic policies have been good at growing certain areas: Poverty, the uninsured, the unemployed, the under employed, foreclosures.

4. How can we measure the success of lare tax cuts to the wealthy and to corporations?

a. We have seen low levels of retained earnings used for investment.

b. We have seen most investment in operations overseas along with the offshoring of our jobs.

c. We have seen retained earnings go to buy back stock and enrich the wealthy.

d. We have seen a failure to develop new industries and new products for the rest of the world. MFG accounts for only 12% of our economy. The financial industry (giving those wonderful credit card debts, subprime mortgages and Enron style stock valuations) accounts for more than 20%.
The economy exists to better enhance all people and not the small, selfish rich. Look at our deficits. Who will pay for those? Not those who can best afford or benefit from our corporate oriented government and military ventures. It will come from the wage earners.

By: shawnfassett

shawnfassett — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:47:38 +0000

Politico removed the statement?? They are such freaks over there…its like a dignifed version of Drudge.

By: enough

enough — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:47:01 +0000

Gramm has all that money the fat cats stole from Enron investors and employees. The world probably does look just fine from his perspective.

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:33:59 +0000

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Off topic questions:
(sorry, not satisfied with the lack of coverage)

~ Does the vote and signing today mean that Richard M. Nixon was correct?
~ Does it mean it’s not illegal when the president does it?
~ Was Watergate a sham?
~ How will Obama work to override his vote as a Senator IF he becomes president?
~ Who can guarantee that ANY Congress will pass a legislation that undoes this unconstitutional violation of the Republic’s Right, Freedom and Liberty?
~ Who can guarantee that the Supreme Court will ever take up a case challenging this law?
~ Who can guarantee that a Supreme Court will find this law, unconstitutional, thus undoing it.

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By: kassandrasduplex

kassandrasduplex — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:31:47 +0000

The Gramm Economic Plan: Let them eat cake.
The last thing a public figure, celeb, politician etc. wants to do is poke an already pissed off public. Can you imagine the insular self righteousness of this boob? Some 80% of the American public think the country is going wrong and he tells us basically to go stuff it and stop whining.

By: ralph the wonder llama

ralph the wonder llama — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:27:19 +0000

Gramm is standing by his comments, telling the Washington Post, “I’m not going to retract any of it. Every word I said was true.”

Sometimes, that right-wing “steadfastness” can actually work to their detriment, and to the advantage of the American people.

Gramm is gonna stick by his claim that the economic pain of ordinary Americans is all in our heads. Hell, if things is so bad, why don’t we all dip into our trust funds? That’s what they’s there for, right?

By: 5th Estate

5th Estate — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:23:09 +0000

A-Pat…

funneee! :)

By: paleolib

paleolib — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:22:25 +0000

Now Gramm is whining about being misquoted. Excellent. Amazing how these people can keep talking with both feet in their mouths.

By: 5th Estate

5th Estate — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:22:04 +0000

And next week we’ll be laying out another economic plan that will probably be the opposite of this week’s plan, but it won’t be a flip-flop because it will still be based on pure fantasy and therefore it will be exactly the same! So neener neener!

When is the MSM going to acknowledge how erratic clueless, disingenuous and dishonest ( not to mention politically inept and downright stupid) McCain is? Should I hold my breath?

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:18:12 +0000

Sorry for the O/T but is that McCain’s niece in the “The Progress Report” ad on the upper right on this page?