AMERICAblog: McCain & Phil Gramm: Happy Together, again
donotmakemecomedownthere
· 1 year ago
"Gramm apologized to McCain for his remarks..."
When will Gramm apologize to the 300 million Americans that he actually insulted?
tick, tock, tick, tock....
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
good. he's sticking by Gramm, the subprime mortgage lobbyist, and rape jokes. hope that works out for ya, gramps.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Now I hear Bush says we are all experiencing mental breakdowns of what is happening to our country. We heard it from McCain that it is in our minds. And we heard Gramm say we all are a bunch of whiners. It is obvious that they don't understand the working class people because they wouldn't say that. How can they govern when they don't get it. We all know better and they should be ashamed of themselves for preaching to the people. What a bunch of bastards.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Oh, they get it.
They're just trying to control the conversation, make the facts fit their agenda, stop dissent, try to convince us that we're just whiners without reason for our complaints. And why shouldn't they? Their tactics have worked thus far.
But change gonna come...
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Boy I hope you are right.
Sugapea
· 1 year ago
Chris...Either I missed this mentioned in our US Media or we've been blacked-out on this latest 'Bush Embarrassment'!
Are they whining in Alaska? They should be! Now what was that about saving our butts via drilling -- offshore and on --all over the U.S., and yet ever more in Alaska?
“ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Think you're feeling pain at the gas pump? Consider the residents of Lime Village, Alaska, an isolated Denaina Athabascan Indian community where gasoline prices have hit $8.55 a gallon . . . Alaska, despite its status as a major crude oil producer, has the highest average gasoline prices of all U.S. states, according to the American Automobile Association. Alaska prices averaged $4.65 a gallon for regular gasoline on Friday, compared with a national average of $4.10, according to AAA."
Wonder how long it will be before we all will be paying for our gas with our Whiners' Club Card?
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
Here in Whatcom County in Washington State we have a refinery and STILL have some of the highest gas prices in the state. $4.10 sounds cheap to me when I am seeing an average of approximately $4.50 a gallon.
The powers that be are blaming it on the Canadians.
Blame Canada!
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Hell, we've got FIVE refineries and our gasoline is usually tops in the lower 48.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
Someone jokingly said that gas is more expensive the closer live to a refinery because you are getting the "freshest" gas
I am still laughing at that (not!)
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
How long did Phil Gramm have to whine before Grampa McSame forgave him for being such an elitist dolt?
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Frankly I'm glad he's back. As a member of McSame's campaign, he'll be an inexhaustible source of embarrassment.
munjoyfan
· 1 year ago
Let's see some discussion of the Keating Five incident. Time to bring that front and center.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Wonder how old Phil will make out in the UBS investigation? Lots of criminality going on there, protecting billions for American tax cheaters. How much of Cindy's money is he holding for her?
(McBush's favorite group is--ABBA. Why, that's downright unAmerican besides being 30 years behind the times. But they ARE white, which is why he probably chose a Swedish group, and gives him more "foreign policy" bona fides, eh? Should help with the youth vote.)
dad
· 1 year ago
mccain = bush gramm = cheney republican = failure
jr
· 1 year ago
McCombover is singing Can't Stop A Heartbeat by Tiffany to porn mogul Gramm
"During that 1984 campaign, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) began investigating Gramm's campaign finances. He had paid Jerry Stiles, a Texas builder, $63,000 to complete his waterfront house in rural Maryland. The builder also ran three troubled savings and loans. The cost of the work he did on the house was $117,000. FBI agents who later investigated Stiles on S&L-related charges found this discrepancy suspicious. Gramm was involved with the owners of at least three Texas S&Ls that later failed at a cost to taxpayers estimated at $160 million, and had previously contacted federal regulators on behalf of Stiles and his savings and loan.
"When the Gramm learned of the probe, he quickly sent the builder $50,000 to cover the difference, then took back the check when the Senate Ethics Committee noticed. Gramm, who later advocated full disclosure of embarrassing records by President Clinton, sued the FEC and waged a costly fight to seal his own records. In 1987, the Senator was fined $30,000, one of the largest ever handed down by the FEC. Stiles' corrupt S&L deals collapsed in 1989, costing taxpayers an estimated $200 million. Stiles was sentenced in Texas to 55-years on 11 counts of conspiracy and fraud. The investigation originally began as the result of a complaint filed by Donna Mobley of Austin, a crusader for economic justice, civil liberties and good government who met an untimely death ten years later.
"In 1985, Gramm was linked to a campaign contribution shakedown run out of a Small Business Administration (SBA) office in El Paso. He was never subjected to a complete investigation or negative press coverage, however, because on February 19, 1988, a leased Rockwell Aero Commander 680 crashed and exploded shortly after taking off from El Paso International Airport. All aboard, the pilot, his wife and son, were killed. The pilot was local businessman Don McCoy who, a day earlier, had agreed to give testimony in an FBI investigation that had threatened both Senator Gramm's protégé at the SBA, and some of the city's most prominent business leaders."
So I guess he DOES know a thing or two about overcoming political pitfalls.
clytemnestra
· 1 year ago
Good! Let him keep the soft porn producer in his ranks . . . it gives us more to hammer him with and makes his more un-palitable for the religious right.
lauren1959
· 1 year ago
Phil Gramm is out! Happy, but not together anymore!
MElouise
· 1 year ago
Even odds that Phil was told to resign; ie, re-thrown under the bus.
jerryflower
· 1 year ago
McCain and Phil Gramm are old American politicians, they are known as the best friends in American political galleries. McCain is being helped by Gramm in elections. ____________________________________ jerry Addiction Recovery New Hampshire
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When will Gramm apologize to the 300 million Americans that he actually insulted?
tick, tock, tick, tock....
hope that works out for ya, gramps.
They're just trying to control the conversation, make the facts fit their agenda, stop dissent, try to convince us that we're just whiners without reason for our complaints. And why shouldn't they? Their tactics have worked thus far.
But change gonna come...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/22772...
“ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Think you're feeling pain at the gas pump? Consider the residents of Lime Village, Alaska, an isolated Denaina Athabascan Indian community where gasoline prices have hit $8.55 a gallon . . . Alaska, despite its status as a major crude oil producer, has the highest average gasoline prices of all U.S. states, according to the American Automobile Association. Alaska prices averaged $4.65 a gallon for regular gasoline on Friday, compared with a national average of $4.10, according to AAA."
Wonder how long it will be before we all will be paying for our gas with our Whiners' Club Card?
The powers that be are blaming it on the Canadians.
Blame Canada!
I am still laughing at that (not!)
(McBush's favorite group is--ABBA. Why, that's downright unAmerican besides being 30 years behind the times. But they ARE white, which is why he probably chose a Swedish group, and gives him more "foreign policy" bona fides, eh? Should help with the youth vote.)
gramm = cheney
republican = failure
"During that 1984 campaign, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) began investigating Gramm's campaign finances. He had paid Jerry Stiles, a Texas builder, $63,000 to complete his waterfront house in rural Maryland. The builder also ran three troubled savings and loans. The cost of the work he did on the house was $117,000. FBI agents who later investigated Stiles on S&L-related charges found this discrepancy suspicious. Gramm was involved with the owners of at least three Texas S&Ls that later failed at a cost to taxpayers estimated at $160 million, and had previously contacted federal regulators on behalf of Stiles and his savings and loan.
"When the Gramm learned of the probe, he quickly sent the builder $50,000 to cover the difference, then took back the check when the Senate Ethics Committee noticed. Gramm, who later advocated full disclosure of embarrassing records by President Clinton, sued the FEC and waged a costly fight to seal his own records. In 1987, the Senator was fined $30,000, one of the largest ever handed down by the FEC. Stiles' corrupt S&L deals collapsed in 1989, costing taxpayers an estimated $200 million. Stiles was sentenced in Texas to 55-years on 11 counts of conspiracy and fraud. The investigation originally began as the result of a complaint filed by Donna Mobley of Austin, a crusader for economic justice, civil liberties and good government who met an untimely death ten years later.
"In 1985, Gramm was linked to a campaign contribution shakedown run out of a Small Business Administration (SBA) office in El Paso. He was never subjected to a complete investigation or negative press coverage, however, because on February 19, 1988, a leased Rockwell Aero Commander 680 crashed and exploded shortly after taking off from El Paso International Airport. All aboard, the pilot, his wife and son, were killed. The pilot was local businessman Don McCoy who, a day earlier, had agreed to give testimony in an FBI investigation that had threatened both Senator Gramm's protégé at the SBA, and some of the city's most prominent business leaders."
So I guess he DOES know a thing or two about overcoming political pitfalls.
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jerry
Addiction Recovery New Hampshire