Exile him to Belarus??? What a comeback.
Posted on 07/10/2008 12:54:41 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
McCain slammed economic adviser Phil Gramm for his “mental recession” and “nation of whiners” comment. He said he didn’t agree with him and even proposed a position in a McCain administration -- ambassador to Belarus, “though I’m not sure the citizens of Minsk would welcome that,” McCain said.
“I don’t agree with Sen. Gramm,” McCain said at a news conference this afternoon. “I believe that the person here in Michigan who just lost their job, isn’t suffering from a ‘mental recession.’ The mother here who is trying to get enough money to feed her children, isn’t ‘whining.’”
“Phil Gramm doesn’t speak for me, I speak for me. I strongly disagree,” McCain continued, speaking of the man who some speculated could be Treasury Secretary in a McCain administration.
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Exile him to Belarus??? What a comeback.
Juan should be exiled to Mexico for his stupidity.
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Good. Now I’ll believe all of them when they give up their lifetime healthcare benefits, free cars, and other perks that the citizens that they are supposed to be SERVING don’t have.
Until then, there are two parties. Them and us.
For an entertaining thread on this, see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043410/posts
Oh my. McCain decide to get tough...with his own people. As for Barry and the Party of the ASS, why their just peachy keen.
What a great example McCain uses. Michigan. Liberal overload. That State could be used for example of how NOT, but to throw Phil Gramm under the bus with Michigan as example is blatantly stupid. Same if he were to have used California.
Concerned for this November folks, very concerned.
Phil Gramm is a fine man. He was an excellent senator with many good ideas. He does not deserve this lambasting from McCain. McCain does not need to demonstrate his empathy for those in difficult times by trashing a good man like Phil Gramm.
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May we presume you prefer Obama? Because barring hell freezing over, that’s the only other choice.
Running over all of those advisers has to be rough on the tires and suspension system of the bus.
The worst nominee in GOP history keeps showing his stuff.
I hate this election.
The Drive Bys make it sound like we are in a 1929 Depression.
People are moaning and groaning about the cost of gas, but they will show up in numbers to buy the new Iphone at $200 a pop. Likewise they will wait at their local Gamestop for the latest game console and spend $$$$ over and beyond the cost on Ebay if they can't get one .
The economy sucks. Housing market is rough. Gas prices are at record levels. Food costs increasing. Energy costs increasing. Taxes increasing. All these are stuff that I live with at home every single day. That's not mental recession. That's what we see with our wallets close to home.
Until the politicians realize that, than they have their heads up their asses.
Juan McAmnesty MeCain- "I distance myself from everyone but myself and I pledge to even rebuke myself if asked by my friends across the isle."
Please add me to your ping list.
Hell no.
Because barring hell freezing over, that’s the only other choice.
With all of McCain's talk about climate change, who knows, hell might freeze over this year.
Done! Welcome aboard.
McCain’s very tough and aggressive.
Against Republicans.
Remaining to be seen: can he be tough and aggressive against Democrats?
Maybe we’ll find out if he ever starts campaigning.
Actually McCain was right to blast Phil Gramm...but of course silly to let him get near the campaign in the first place. Their politics are just the same
Gramm has a PhD in Economics....which means he doesnt understand economics. What a bonehead, making comments like that
Bet that Gramm is a liberal free trader whacko “America sucks” nutty Globalist.
America is not full of whiners. We are tired of anti-American politicians trying to masquerade as conservatives loving America...while trashing our borders and sucking up to the narco-terrorists, petro-terrorists, and the Commie Chinese
*Sigh* Both of you. This isn’t helping.
Quite possibly the dumbest thing I've read all day.
The people outside the ivory tower believe whatever the box in their air-conditioned living rooms tells them to believe. They don't even know what a recession is.
Another McCain dissappointment.
Geeze,
The lose that McCain and the republicans are about to face is going to be staggering.
Funny that McCain referenced Belarus. I see the US government as becoming more like the Kremlin as time goes on. The elite in government take from the citizens and disperse it how they see fit, while they live in privilege. I guess even McCain sees the similarity.
He can only disappoint you if you expect anything from him. He consistently lives up to my expectations.
Cheap political theater? Get Gramm to make some kind of ridiculous off-the-cuff remark so McCain can ride in on a white horse and play the hero?
The last line is right on target. Back a year or so ago when all economic indicators were up and gas prices albeit high, didn't keep people from buying that SUV, polling showed that people thought the economy sucked. Why? Because the Drive By Media said so and never reported the correct news about the economy. Sort of like they are going silent about the good news in Iraq right now.
But it is not all the Drive Bys fault. The GOP and this White House have been the most incompetent at tooting their own horns about the good news. The Drive Bys will automatically report the good news when a Rat is in charge because it's not in their nature to report bad news about them. The next GOP leader that can grasp that concept will be the next Reagan like figure in our party. The Bushies thought the Drive Bys would help them. They thought wrong.
Another McCain dissappointment.
Bingo.
Look, Senator Obama. My bus is just like yours! And I’ve got people under it, just like yours! And I am for amnesty, just like you!
And this election is about what?
When you have two people foisted upon us by the media, shame on us if we elect either one.
I do not vote for unopposed candidates and I will not vote for Tweedle Dee/Tweedle Dum.
My vote, wasted though it may be, will be a write-in for Ann Coulter.
McWhacked only attacks those who are trying to be on his side. He never attacks those who are theoretically the opposition.
But hey, that’s why I call him McWhacked.
Read muh tagline.
I'm not sure McCain can beat Obama. In his fossilized thought process, he can only really slam his own side -- not b. Hussein Obama.
He is also pretty stupid, too. What Phil Gramm said was absolutely correct.
Got a winner. Us and them. Perfect.
America is indeed full of whiners. Of course, they’re all in the democratic party-—whining about Iraq, about the 2nd amendment, about Limbaugh and Savage, about tax cuts, about polar bears......
I’d rather have Gramm advising McCain on economic policy than some semi-socialist compassionate conservative. In the unlikely event McCain does win, he’d be smart to make Gramm Treasury Secretary and leave economic policy to him.
McCain does not want to be POTUS, that is unless he can run on the Democrat ticket. The fix IS in. This really proves it.
It is us & them.
Gramm’s statement was stupid. He’s already been a thorn in the campaign, because of his work to pass the Enron loophole, which is being used to cloud up what should be an easy path to drilling.
Does Gramm really believe that nobody’s house has dropped in value, that the stock market is NOT down 20%, that gasoline does NOT cost over twice what it did a couple of years ago, that heating oil is NOT through the roof, that our food costs aren’t soaring, or that a million more people are out of work?
We are not in a recession. But the economy isn’t hunky-dory either, and Gramm’s comments that we are whining did a disservice to the candidate he is claiming to support, as well as showing a callous indifference to the many people who HAVE suffered over the past two years of Democrat rule.
Which of course is the reason Gramm should be booted now — while the official message is that the Democrats have screwed things up and made everything worse, it doesn’t help to have an advisor saying that everything is great and the Democrats haven’t messed things up at all.
There is not a recession. Words have meanings, and if you redefine recession to be “I’m unhappy”, then there is no word to describe a real recession.
The economy doesn’t suck. Here in Tucson, unemployment has just edged up to 4%. Housing prices are about what they were 3 years ago. You can rent an 800 sq ft apartment for $650. Gas is going up - no shock there, since we’ve restricted production for 30 years. Taxes do not need to increase - try voting republican, if you can find a real one.
McCain is pandering to people like you, who care more about someone feeling your pain than solutions. It doesn’t help.
what a joke of a candidate MC cain is. . I just can’t believe how badly this is going. horrible, McPainful.. is this the same guy who stood up to torture for 5 years? sheesh, what has happened to him? .. in fact I’m surprised he didn’t issue a formal apology for the Graham statement. “my friends, I know you are hurting”, etc..
I through with it.. we will lose in November because McCain didn’t bother to sit down and watch a few speeches from the gipper. ( it might have reminded about the proper care and feeding of a liberal nation ).. you lead them... you tell them to quit whining.. that we are going to be just fine... that we will deal with it... that we will drill drill drill..
uggh... I’ve had it with this guy. it’s completely hopeless.
Home prices falling from stratospheric to merely ridiculous is not a recession. It's a correction, and one that was badly needed.
Other than those two things, there really isn't much wrong with this economy.
Fox reporting now, Gramm stands by his comments.
Conservatives will be glad to hear that John McCain will be getting economic advice from Phill Gramm. Never mind.
Juan mccain just saved me from making a stupedo donation, with his continuation of his “maverick” stupidity of slapping his own side.
I’m with Phil on this one. We do whine. Then we look to the government for a fix. Its not good for us.
Former senator Phil Gramm, a top economic adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), referred to the economic slowdown as "a mental recession," and referred to the United States as “a nation of whiners.” Juan appears to possess an innate ability to pick idiots for advisers. First it was Lindsey Graham, then a failed CEO, and now Phil Gramm. Gramm to Americans: 'Shut up and Drink the Kool-Aid!'
Now when McCain criticizes Gramm for his comment, you slam McCain. You can't have it both ways.
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