Phil Gramm

Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com --- 6 days ago
From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-TreworgyFormer Sen. Phil Gramm -- the beleaguered McCain campaign surrogate who infamously called America a nation of "whiners" and the current economic crisis a "mental recession" -- is in attendance at McCain's event today at the Aspen Institute. ...( read more ) ...

Source: blogs.abcnews.com --- 5 days ago
ABC News' Bret Hovell reports: Former Sen. Phil Gramm, formerly a national co-chair of the McCain campaign, made his first appearance back with the candidate Thursday in Aspen, Colorado. Gramm removed himself from the campaign after making controversial statements at... ...

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 6 days ago
By Michael D. Shear Turns out, the exile to Belarus was not permanent. Former Sen. Phil Gramm, the lawmaker-turned-lobbyist who was unceremoniously sent to the cooler by his friend, Sen. John McCain for saying that the recession was "mental," appeared in Aspen with the GOP nominee today. After Gramm's comments, McCain had joked that Gramm would be "in serious consideration for ambassador to Belarus although I'm not sure the citizens of Minsk would welcome that." Gramm told reporters today that he's just a volunteer, but his presence was enough to prompt howls from Democrats. "Heeeeeeee's back!" read the subject line of an e-mail from an Obama spokesman. ...

Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 6 days ago
Laura Meckler reports from Aspen, Colo., on the presidential race. Ousted John McCain campaign co-chairman Phil Gramm is back with the campaign’s top advisers this weekend, as the campaign gathers top supporters for a series of briefings in scenic Aspen, Colo. The former Texas senator stepped down from his position after he said in an interview [...] ...

Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 5 days ago
David Brooks goes to the quake area of Sichuan, and discovers what it's like to talk to people who have a tragic sense. Excerpt: These were weird, unnerving interviews, and I don't pretend to understand what's going on in the... ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 6 days ago
Phil Gramm, who stepped down from the McCain campaign after revealing that he believed America had become a “nation of whiners,” is “back with the campaign’s top advisers this weekend.” Gramm was seated in the front row during a McCain event in Aspen, Colorado today. “I am a supporter of John McCain,” said Gramm. “I [...] ...

Source: www.dallasnews.com --- 4 days ago
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Source: www.nationalledger.com --- 11 days ago
You won't hear me straining to defend Phil Gramm, the Texas Republican whose penchant for grating commentary sunk his 1996 bid for the presidency before the New Hampshire primary. It was really just a matter... ...

Source: www.americablog.com --- 4 days ago
Well that didn't take long . But associates say the senator still dials up former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, who forfeited his title of campaign co-chairman after a controversy over his remarks that the United States is “a nation of whiners” and is merely in “a mental recession.” Current and former advisers say they still consider Mr. Gramm, now UBS investment bank vice chairman, a top prospect for treasury secretary in a McCain administration. Let's take a walk through memory lane: Phil Gramm recently said that America is a “nation of whiners” going through a “mental recession.” "‘You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,’ he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices... ‘We have sort of become a nation of whiners,’ he said.” John McCain thinks the challenges facing our families are “psychological" - gee that sounds an awful lot like Phil Gramm. At a town hall in Florida McCain said of economic challenges facing American families “A lot of this is psychological. A lot of it’s psychological. Because I believe the fundamentals of our economy is still strong.” More evidence of Gramm's influence - McCain thinks Americans are “better off” economically than they were eight years ago. At a January 30th CNN debate during the Republican primary John McCain was asked if he t ...

Source: wizbangblue.com --- 3 days ago
After Phil Gramm called Americans a "nation of whiners" he was quietly and unceremoniously dumped from the McCain campaign. At least, that's what the liars in McCain's camp wanted you to believe... Lo and behold, Gramm is back : Phil Gramm didn't stay in the dog house for long. Reports from Aspen, Colo., where McCain was attending an Aspen Institute event today, are that the former Texas senator was in the front row, and says he'll spend today and tomorrow with his pal, the GOP's presumptive nominee for president -- in an "informal" capacity, naturally. Makes you wonder just who is running the McCain campaign organization, and why the apparent insistence that someone who dislikes everyday Americans as much as Phil Gramm stays involved, right? Well it shouldn't.... Gramm is a tool of the Bush/Republican energy cartel, plain and simple, so he outranks McCain, and now he's slithering back... Gramm was partly caught up in the Enron scandal when it emerged that his wife Wendy had in part written an exemption for Enron from federal oversight while she was serving on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She then accepted a directorship at Enron (for 1.85 million dollars). Phil Gramm was personally involved further when it came to light that he had helped to turn the exemption into law as well as push through the deregulation of energy markets that led in part to the Enron scandal. During this period Enron was a major contributor (actuall ...

Source: notionscapital.wordpress.com --- 3 days ago
What could be more secure than a Swiss bank? Perhaps a Swiss bank without former Republican Senator (and McCain economic adviser) Phil Gramm on the board. Zurich-based UBS AG (founded 1747), a global financial giant, wrote down (lost) $43 billiondue to the subprime mortgage catastrophy, but you won’t hearUBS whining for a U.S. government bail-out like Bear-Stearns, [...] ...

Source: www.argmax.com --- 26 minutes ago
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Source: lonesomemongoose.wordpress.com --- 4 days ago
Laura Meckler, The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2008 Aspen, Colorado - Ousted John McCain campaign co-chairman Phil Gramm is back with the campaign’s top advisers this weekend, as the campaign gathers top supporters for a series of briefings in scenic Aspen, Colo. The former Texas senator stepped down from his position after he said in an [...] ...

Source: www.rodneyhopper.com --- 2 hours ago
Former Sen. Phil Gramm was back on the campaign trail with John McCain today at McCain’s event at the Aspen Institute. Guess McCain thought we wouldn’t notice. Remember, this is the same Phil Gramm that helped deregulate oil futures, leading to the out of control oil speculation we enjoy today. This is the same Phil Gramm that [...] ...

Source: news.google.com --- 6 days ago
No whining, Gramm turns up at McCain's side Dallas Morning News - 2 hours ago Phil Gramm didn't stay in the dog house for long. Reports from Aspen, Colo., where McCain was attending an Aspen Institute event today, are that the former Texas senator was in the front row, and says he'll spend today and tomorrow with his pal, ... Phil Gramm returns MSNBC Phil Gramm spotted at McCain event CNN Political Ticker CBS News  - Forbes  - Wall Street Journal Blogs all 10 news articles ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 2 days ago
I moved to Tucson seven years ago and I have voted for and supported Senator John McCain since I became an Arizona resident. I got to hear and talk with McCain this week for the fourth time. Three of those meetings have been here in Aspen which should tell you something right off the bat about why so many Arizona residents aren't so fond of him. I've only heard him in Tucson once. Presidential candidate McCain was here at the Aspen Institute to address a crowd of about 1,000 people. It was a mcuh older, whiter, cleaner-cut crowd than we normally see in Aspen. They wore a lot of outfits decked with flags and McCain stickers with red, white and blue definitely the colors of the day. I didn't think there were that many Republicans in Aspen but I learn new things every day here. During the last month, the national news coverage has focused on McCain's apparent confusion over a number of pretty important facts and the sharp negative tone his campaign has taken since Karl Rove-trained Steve Schmidt took over the campaign several weeks ago. I noted that the front rows of the venue were filled with GOP stalwarts such as Jack Kemp, Senators John Thune and Lindsay Graham, and McCain economic advisor Phil Gramm who is apparently back after being chased out of the campaign a few weeks ago for calling the American people "whiners" for complaining about the economy. I settled in and waiting for McCain to embarrass himself by stumbling and spre ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 3 days ago
He's back! In Aspen last week, John McCain gazed into Phil Gramm's eyes and said, "Thank you Phil, for all your friendship and support." For years, Gramm has been the economics lobe of McCain's brain -- and it seems he is still mighty proud of the fact. This is shocking -- not because Gramm called Americans a nation of "whiners," but because more than any other politician, he caused the Enron implosion and the credit crunch. McCain has said: "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should... To be honest, I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." This is a man who can't tell his Sunni from his Shia, and who opposed the Northern Ireland peace process as a capitulation to terrorism. And he admits he knows even less about the economy than that. On one occasion, he let his irritation with the subject slip by referring to it as "the credit cunt." But when he is forced to talk about the economy, McCain has always given the same answer: "I rely on the circle I have developed over many years -- people like Phil Gramm." He has Herbert Hoovered-up his slivers of economic theory from this man -- but who is Gramm? Until he briefly sputtered into the headlines over his "whiners" gaffe, few had cared to look. Phil Gramm is an ornery old ex-Texas senator who seems to have swooped out of the most scathing H L Mencken sketch. He became McCain's ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 6 days ago
Our guest blogger is Amanda Logan, a Research Associate at the Center for American Progress. Last month, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) economic adviser Phil Gramm accused America of being “nation of whiners.” But Americans aren’t whining, we’re hurting. Inflation hit a 17-year high last month, and home foreclosure filings increased 55% in the past year. As [...] ...

Source: www.daytondailynews.com --- 10 days ago
Sen. Phil Gramm got into political trouble when he declared that when it came to the economy, "we have sort of become a nation of whiners." ...

Source: www.kansas.com --- 5 hours ago
B y rights, John McCain should be getting hammered on economics. After all, McCain proposes continuing the policies of a president who's had a truly dismal economic record -- job growth under the current administration has been the slowest in 60 years, even slower than job growth under the first President Bush. And the public blames the White House, giving Bush spectacularly low ratings on his handling of the economy. Meanwhile, according to associates, McCain still "dials up" Phil Gramm, the former senator who resigned as co-chairman of the campaign after calling America a "nation of whiners" and dismissing the country's economic woes as nothing more than a "mental recession." And Gramm is still considered a top pick for Treasury secretary. So McCain would seem to offer a target a mile wide: a die-hard supporter of failed economic policies who takes his advice from people completely out of touch with the lives of working Americans. But while polls continue to show that the public, by a large margin, trusts Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy, recent polling shows that Barack Obama has at best a small edge over McCain on the issue -- 4 percentage points in a recent Time magazine poll, and he is 1 point behind according to Rasmussen Reports, which does automated polling. And Obama's failure to achieve a decisive edge on economic policy is central to his failure to open up a big lead in overall polling. Why isn't ...