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Title: McCain Campaign Pulls Plug on Gramm
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Washington Post
URL Source: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the- ... ulls_plug_on.html?hpid=topnews
Published: Jul 13, 2008
Author: Juliet Eilperin
Post Date: 2008-07-13 17:21:43 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 176
Comments: 11
Sen. John McCain is definitely done trotting his friend and former Senate colleague Phil Gramm out on the campaign trail, and he is minimizing the Texan's role among his team of advisers. Gramm had played an important part in crafting McCain's economic plan, and he occasionally appeared at rallies or spoke to editorial boards on the presumptive GOP nominee's behalf. But no longer, according to two key McCain advisers, after Gramm told the Washington Times that the country was filled with "whiners" and the United States is merely in a "mental recession." On Friday McCain's domestic policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin told Darren Gersh, a PBS "Nightly Business Report" correspondent, that Gramm is no longer giving advice to McCain or his aides on the economy. "I haven't spoken to Senator Gramm since the comments took place, and I'm not expecting to," Holtz-Eakin said. Today, McCain economics adviser Carly Fiorina chimed in on NBC's "Meet the Press": "I think John McCain has been real clear that Phil Gramm wasn't speaking for him and in fact John McCain has said now for many months that he believes the economy is in a recession. ... I don't think Senator Gramm will any longer be speaking for John McCain. I think John McCain was crystal clear about that this week." McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in an e-mail that the campaign has "no announcement to make on [Gramm's] role as a volunteer with the campaign, other than to say his remarks were regrettable and are completely inconsistent with the message and mission of John McCain's economic plan."
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
McCorpse is not all that bright: but at least he's this bright. (How can Texas manage to send so many jerk-offs to deecee?)
Oh, that's OK Senator McCain. Your GOOD BUDDY Phil Gramm has VERY clearly told ALL of us EXACTLY what YOU and your fat assed RepukingCon cronies think about us proles. I do hope that you and your RepukingCon pals enjoy the horrifying ass-kicking you are going to get at the polls this fall.
#2. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
 | Gold and silver are REAL money, paper is but a promise. |
#3. To: lodwick (#1)
How do I answer that and not piss you off for insulting your country...errrr...state? ;-D
"How can Texas manage to send so many jerk-offs to deecee?"
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy
#4. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Why they keep trotting her out is beyond me. She ran HP into the ground and got fired.
McCain economics adviser Carly Fiorina
I've already said too much.
#5. To: MUDDOG (#4)
Ran into Carly a few times in Silicon Valley. If you ever see her, bring knitting needles. Her ego knows no bounds and she is a complete ass.
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
It's beyond pathetic - we're approaching CA in the mindless department.
#7. To: mirage (#5)
If you ever see her, bring knitting needles. Her ego knows no bounds and she is a complete ass. After what that hag did to Lucent and HP, I wouldn't take her advise on what to have for breakfast, let alone on how to run an economy.
Ran into Carly a few times in Silicon Valley.
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
#8. To: lodwick, Ferret Mike (#1) (Edited)
The reason Texas is doing so well is we GOT RID of these A-holes. They are now the nation's and the world's problem. I wish there were a way to keep the Chimp from moving back to Dallas next year (no, he's not going to live in Crawford). I'm hoping he'll go ahead and move to the family compound being established in Paraguay.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
#9. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Another quisling pops his squishy head up and gets thrown under a straight change express.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#10. To: lodwick (#1)
When you catch up to CA let me know.
(How can Texas manage to send so many jerk-offs to deecee?)
"You have delusions of adequacy."
#11. To: Sam Houston (#8)
Pre-NAU or Post-NAU? ;-)
I'm hoping he'll go ahead and move to the family compound being established in Paraguay.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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