[rottndog]

Whining applies here. Too many people are whining. They have gotten the results they voted for.

Heating oil too expensive??? Too bad—this is a result of the refusal to utilize our own domestic resources and ensure that an adequate supply of oil increases with the increase in the population.

Take home pay value dropping??? Too bad—this is the result of decades of runaway government social spending, which is the result of too many whiners with their hands out demanding the government take care of them. The government prints more money to cover its’ spending, the value of the dollar drops.

Again, the people are getting what they have asked and voted for. They are whiners. Phil Gramm was right....just not politically correct.

[dirtboy]

Last I checked, a GOP Congress spent thru the roof. So don’t act like the people are to blame. Pubblies like Gramm sold them down the river for their own coin, and then have the gall to say the people are whiners.

[1rudeboy]

I think the most interesting (and typical) thing about this entire episode is that no one is discussing the veracity of Gramm's comments, gaffes or not. Instead, we are discussing UBS, Enron, Gramm-Rudman, etc.

Mission accomplished. If a Dem political consultant could capture this dynamic and take advantage of it, like Morris perfected his Third Way "triangulation" stuff, or the way Rove developed the technique of attacking an opponent's strongest attributes (instead of weakest), then you'd never see a conservative in the White House again, Republican, Independent, third Party, or from the Planet Zod.