Phil Gramm Resigns From McCain Campaign

NEW YORK — Phil Gramm, a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, is resigning from the role as campaign co-chairman after his comments that the United States had become a "nation of whiners" who constantly complain about the state of the economy.

The former U.S. senator from Texas and past presidential candidate made the remarks earlier this month. McCain immediately distanced himself from the comments, but they have been criticized constantly as McCain tries to show he can help steer the country past its current financial troubles.

Gramm had also suggested that the country was facing a "mental recession" instead of real economic problems. Gramm said in a statement late Friday that he is stepping down as a co-chair of the campaign to "end this distraction."

Comments

[separatingwheatfromchaff]

He's getting rid of him because together they look like two old fogies at a retirement home.Jeez.........what am I thinking,they are.

[kay]

He's getting rid of him because the future Treasury Secretary is probably a crook.

So much for "experience".

[CrankyCurmudgeon]

Probably? Really?

[SCG]

If they have to pass that bar (crooks), it will really thin out the ranks.

[Monkeytime]

Or..... The two grouchy old dudes in the balcony on the Muppet Show.

[SouthPrairie]

OMG! That's where I've seen them before!

[wmbear]

I BELIEVE THAT "OLD FART"...

Is the correct technical term....

[racom]

The charter members of the 'Repug Funny Farm & Rest Home'!!! All repug retards welcome, skivies optional!!!

[jeffp26]

Resign: rhymes with whine.

I want Phil to go to Miami (to pass away).

[kittycago]

He isn't resigning he is hiding in hope that McSame ges elected so he can complete the rape of middle and lower income America.This man and his wife are like cockroachs just hiding because the lights are on them..If McSame gets elected they will move into their new offices in DC in the middle of the night as McSame appointees.

[wedgie]

Gollum.

**

[scouserinlondon]

I had Carville down for Gollum.

[Anciano]

Quit whining Phil, you're not a distraction, you're the main attraction.

[watchingthings]

Gramm......McCwho.......it's all the same........best be forgotten.

[carex]

Just the fact that Gramm was the Finance Chair of this Campaign says so much about who McCain is.

Gramm has spent his entire career gaming every system he encoutered to create profit personnally
and for his friends. Dear wifey Wendy left the government and ran straight to the waiting arms of Ken Lay at Enron where she profitted even more.

Any legitimate candidate would not touch this guy with a ten foot pole.

But alas, I whine.

[darthdarcy]

McCain only got rid of Gramm because Gramm embarrassed him, not because he is a lying cheating criminal swindler and enemy of the America people...

McCain is a total fraud...

[kay]

The timing is suspicious. Is something horrible happening at UBS?

[Anciano]

Senator Levin has said that they'll lose their banking license in the U.S. if they don't stop allowing people to hide wealth from the IRS. Other than that, I can't think of anything.

[philipwitak]

i can't recall where, at this particular moment, but sometime within the last 48 hours, i heard that ubs will no longer be offering general banking services to the public, here in this country... wait a minute...here it is:

"UBS, the world's largest private banking group, stunned the financial world yesterday when it shelved all its offshore banking services for US residents and appeared to rip up the traditional Swiss franchise of secrecy, saying it was co-operating with the US's tax authorities to expose tax cheats."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24042054-643,00.html

[kay]

Several state attorney's general are after a section of UBS.

Thank goodness for state attorney's general, huh?

Now that the DOJ is staffed with campaign aides.

Filling a void, those state prosecutors.

[pizzmoe]

Good riddance. He is league with Satan, I mean, Cheney.

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

Chris Hayes from The Nation on Countdown was a classic talking about Phil Graham. Record it if you missed it.

[CrankyCurmudgeon]

Would you be so kind as to explain how we can record it . . . if we missed it??????

[storeyy]

Watch it on MSNBC.com

[Bongborg]

Listen... am I mentally recessed,or is that the sound of whining drifting across the prairie?

[ObamAtomic]

The pornographer(Truck Stop Women) family values Phil Gramm,
under the Bus,well his last gaffe about whiner American was his last
Family Values Type of Guy,merci....

[RobinLandseadel]

. . . .or Family Guy type of values, either.

[suntzu]

It's about Phil Gramm's follies. Go read it.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/145011

[SwingVoter]

I don't see why he needed to resign. McCain should have been a maverick about it.

[scouserinlondon]

Bush told McCain "You should have Maverickified him, you need to be more Maverickatious in future"

[Chas53]

There once was a senator named Phil
Who found that porn was a Thrill
But then he went "Mental"
Cuz' his brain was a Lentil
So McCane cut him out of his will

[JiminNC]

There once was senator named G.ramm
Who excelled at the flim and the flam
He insulted the masses
It chapped all our ass.es
And he left J.ohn Mc.Cain in a jam.

[scouserinlondon]

There once was president named Bush
Who twice into war he did rush
He sent kids to die
For his piece of the pie
And now Obama will give him the push.