Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
Bloomberg | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics
Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm, who stepped aside as John McCain's campaign co-chairman in July after an uproar over comments that those worried abou...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics
I know that just about the entire blogosphere is talking about John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin (who?) for his running mate, but I, for one, refuse t...
Johann Hari | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics
McCain has Herbert Hoovered-up his slivers of economic theory from this man -- but who is Phil Gramm? His chuckle-headed ideological fanaticism nearly brought the global economy down -- twice.
Karen Nussbaum | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
As the executive director of Working America, the two-million-member community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, I like to encourage people to complain, and even to whine, about the problems they face on the job.
Joe Cutbirth | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics
McCain wants us to put him in charge of the world's leading economy, but he is outsourcing his intellectual and philosophical responsibilities in that area. It seems to be part of who he is, just like Bush.
Chuck Idelson | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
Although McCain has tried to distance himself from utterly detached economic adviser Phil Gramm, McCain has his own "let them eat cake" approach to healthcare, a major concern for voters across the country.
Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Robert Novak reports that all is well between John McCain and Phil Gramm once again: After Sen. John McCain publicly repudiated his close friend and...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
Phil Gramm obviously had the quote of the week. Voters dealing with skyrocketing gas prices and collapsing home values just love being called "whiners" by a millionaire. This kind of out-of-touch condescension comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed Gramm's career. He's left his fingerprints on some of the worst economic debacles in U.S. history. He was a champion of energy deregulation, which gave us Enron and blackouts and price gouging. He was a champion of deregulating the savings-and-loan industry, the bailout of which cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. And his leadership on banking deregulation helped create the current sub-prime mortgage crisis. Republicans love to talk about Obama's lack of experience. I'll take fresh blood over Gramm's kind of track record any day of the week.
Huff TV | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics