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 didnt agree with him and even proposed a position in a McCain administration -- ambassador to Belarus, though Im not sure the citizens of Minsk would welcome that, McCain said.
I dont 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, isnt suffering from a mental recession. The mother here who is trying to get enough money to feed her children, isnt whining.
Phil Gramm doesnt 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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You seem to have scored some really good acid! Sometimes I miss the 60's.
Go out to the swing voters in my neck of the woods and tell them that. They see their jobs leaving. Those with jobs see their paychecks getting smaller and a higher share of their paychecks going to required costs. Gasoline. Food. Etc.
If you think that is dumb, just remember which part of the country decides elections. It's the Midwest.
Glad Tuscon's in better shape. Around here, I expect unemployment to hit 10%+ with GM and Ford about to go bankrupt and an idiot governor who I voted against every single time she was up for election.
You said it less harshly than I did, but that's exactly the case. Granted, we are a special case of recession here in Michigan going on 7 years, but the whole Midwest has problems right now. That's also where elections are decided.
McCain threw Gramm under the wheels of the Straight Talk Express to prove his fealty to the lords of "malaise". He forgot that his base, infinitely more important to him in the election than liberals who will never vote for him, believes in Reagan style optimism, not Carterism. A major, if predictable, blunder.
Before I pull the lever, I would really, really like for McCain to give me one reason to vote for him. Just one.
With every day that passes, it becomes more obvious McCain is not going to give me that reason.
In retrospect, Bob Dole looks really good.
Before I pull the lever, I would really, really like for McCain to give me one reason to vote for him. Just one. Would that be asking too much?
But, with every day that passes, McCain makes it increasingly obvious that he is not going to give me that reason.
In retrospect, Bob Dole looks really good.
McCain thinks that by becoming a nattering nabob of negativism, he will impress the effete corps of impudent snobs. They'll never support him against a leftist. His only hope is to really turn out the conservatives. He seems not to grasp that.
I know. Dole looks downright charismatic in comparison to McCain. I look at John, and it’s like phenobarbitol. I want to nod off. I’ve seen corpses with more life in them.God, please help us.
How about just exiling McNuttcase to Belarus?
Can this guy be any more politically tone deaf?
Oh, wait. La Raza’s speech is next week. Hold that thought.
It's not the journalists that "duped" the people. You can call the economic conditions whatever you want, but the people are all experiencing their own personal recession right now. You can deny it. You can use technicalities. You can browbeat them. However, these people are going to vote their pocketbooks. I've already made my decision. I'll be voting for McCain kicking and screaming because of the Supreme Court, but I'm not the person we need to convince.
Supreme Court is my reason I’m voting for McCain. After the 5-4 Heller decision, I can not risk Obama appointing the replacements for Ginsburg, Souter, Stevens, or Scalia.
Gramm used the term recession, I didn’t. He said we had a mental recession, and americans were whiners.
House values down 20%. Stock prices down 20%. Milk, gas twice as expensive. Costs a thousand dollars to fly up and down the east coast. Unemployment up by 1%. GM possibly going bankrupt. Almost a million people out of work.
For the most part, people are not whiners. And this is not in our mind. It’s not a recession, although I wouldn’t discount the possibility that we have one in the next 6 months or so.
Things are not that bad, but they are not good either. I’m sure they are good for Gramm, with his cushy Senate retirement.
Gramm had a valid point to make about how the economy is strong, how the setbacks are relative to large gains, how gas prices are the Democrat’s fault.
Instead, he blamed the American people for making up their hardship, and for whining about it.
Because of Gramm, we will have at least two days when the story won’t be Obama being an idiot, or the Democrats messing around NOT doing anything about gas prices. Instead, it will be about how out-of-touch Republicans still are.
The quicker he disappears, the better. Worse, because of what he said, I’ve had to listen to Gingrich disagreeing with him. Which almost, but not quite, makes me want to agree with Gramm.
PHIL GRAMM: WHAT AN IDIOT!!!
The GOP can no longer throw into the face of B. Hussein, his statement about rural Americans clinging to God and guns with McCain’s advisors making stupid statements like this.
Let me say it again: WHAT AN IDIOT!!!
Phil Gramm is an idiot, true. Then again, McCain hired him so that speaks volumes about his level of wisdom.
When thing were a lot worse than now, the Gipper was talking morning in America.
Folks, the technical and correct definition of a recession is two or more quarters of negative change in GDP. From the current official figures, there is no recession at the national level, though I have my suspicions that the official figures are doctored. However, Darren, I'll agree with you, per an earlier post of mine: at a a regional and state level, Michigan appears to be in a localized recession. There may be other states like this (Ohio comes to mind, too). Where I live (Virginia) the economy is still chugging along, so we're not in any sort of recession.
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