Good. Now don't let that prick back into any office other than janitorial.

Why do Americans hate America?

one lobbyist down,60 something to go.

Gramm, of Texas, told the Washington Times last week that the nation's economic troubles are only a "mental recession" and said that the U.S. economy is "not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day."

Yeah, I'm just imagining the prices at the gas pump, grocery store, retail, not to mention the power bill and other utilities.

Plus, my roommate is just imagining that, though he's working for the same company and does the same job, his pay has been cut twice as an alternative to being laid off. And I'm just imagining not being able to find a technical job to save my life.

Mental recession my ass.

didn't know it was a republican requirement to release ALL embarassing statements after hours on friday.

McCain doesn't need a young 66 year old whipper snapper anyway.

Subby missed his/her chance for greatness.

What a waffler.

Damn!
We almost kicked another scumbag out of Texas and into Washington.
.

so close.

I wonder if McCain will change all of his economic stances back to what they were right before Gramm became an advisor. Some of them weren't half bad.

good.

Now STFU and disappear from the public eye.

Only two weeks too late, too.

Cewley: didn't know it was a republican requirement to release ALL embarassing statements after hours on friday.

Pretty much anything that's true, as well.

I think this is McCain trying to reach out to the Bush vote. He'll hire the same group of lobbyists and incompetent insiders, but he's willing to fire them when they do something stupid.

That's called being a maverick in Washington

eqtworld: I never got the pancakes joke

The source of the joke is this article from the Onion

Ed Willy: I think this is McCain trying to reach out to the Bush vote. He'll hire the same group of lobbyists and incompetent insiders, but he's willing to fire them when they do something stupid.

That's called being a maverick in Washington

Right. He's so Maverick he and Bush are adopting Obama's foreign policies. Timetables for troop withdrawal in Iraq. Negotiations with Iran and a surge in Afghanistan with strikes inside Pakistan.

how many officals have resigned from McCain's campaign now?

Has there been a post about the Time Horizon yet?

bulldg4life: I wonder if McCain will change all of his economic stances back to what they were right before Gramm became an advisor. Some of them weren't half bad.

The current ones or the previous ones?

I enjoyed the part about Phil Gramm that his wife was on the board of Enron making $400,000 a year for attending four meetings a year at, coincidentally, just the time that Gramm pushed through legislation legalizing Enron style thievery.

Zimbabwe or Washington, DC....which is higher on the corruptometer?

pistol1557: Has there been a post about the Time Horizon yet?

Love the Orwellian flavor that one has, Luntz is outdoing himself.

a horizon is something that you can move towards forever and never reach. so a time horizon is a time that will never come.

Hobodeluxe: Right. He's so Maverick he and Bush are adopting Obama's foreign policies. Timetables for troop withdrawal in Iraq. Negotiations with Iran and a surge in Afghanistan with strikes inside Pakistan.

I don't get it and it sort of scares me. Maybe they are hoping that it all backfires so then can argue that Obama's policies would be a disaster. I really dunno.

At any rate, it will make the transition to an Obama WH very easy if all his policies are adopted before he gets there.

SpinStopper: Mental recession my ass.

I suppose I'm imagining that my company has had a hiring freeze for almost a year now.
I'm imagining that one of the ladies in my office has been a temp for over a year because they can't hire her.
I'm imagining that my accounts are pissed off because their shipments are going out late. Why? Because the warehouse staff have been cut to the bone.

Yep.

I hear that it's a largely psychological resignation.

He should be OK, there's plenty of whiners on Wall Street.

"Gram quits McPancakes campaign. What a whiner winner."

Sorry, pet peeve.

Wait a minute...I heard Sean Hannity tell a whiny liberal caller that Gramm was removed from the campaign days ago. Surely that Great American (insert little TM thingy here) Mr. Hannity wouldn't tell a fib, would he?

/yeah, I listen
//he's the funniest thing on the radio for my drive home
///thankfully my drive is only 20 minutes

Ed Willy: The source of the joke is this article from the Onion

HAH! Thanks! I missed that one, but was going to keep my trap shut. Figured I'd let somebody else ask. And, eventually, someone did ;)

After all, we've sort of become a nation of Gramm.

Wait, that's not quite right...

The only cliche more frequently used than McCain/Pancakes is "I don't get the correlation between John McCain and pancakes."

What a shocker...

Funny, all the folks who were defending Gramm seemed to be absent this time.

Or maybe they're travelling.

milk_plus: I hear that it's a largely psychological resignation.

Someone should put him out of his psychological misery.

Fart_Machine: Funny, all the folks who were defending Gramm seemed to be absent this time.

Or maybe they're travelling.

It's Friday.

Selected quotes.
What a warm heart that man has....



* "Has anyone ever noticed that we live in the only country in the world where all the poor people are fat?" - During his first Senate Campaign against Democrat Lloyd Doggett.

* "Most people don't have the luxury of living to be 80 years old, so it's hard for me to feel sorry for them." - In response to a claim that a Social Security proposal would hurt people over 80.

* "We're going to keep on building the party (the Texas Republican Party) until we're hunting Democrats with dogs." - As quoted in Mother Jones, August 1995

* "If you are willing to tackle the tough issues, you don't need to worry about stepping on anyone's toes; they will stand aside and shove you to the front." - As quoted by former Gramm staffer Wayne A. Abernathy[16] September 12, 2002, before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

* "I have as many guns as I need, but I don't have as many guns as I want."

* "We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness."

Where the hell did the Pancakes thing come from again?

Goetz

Selected quotes.

Which all beg the question: does this guy have any farking clue what he's talking about? Is he really an expert in any field, or have any knowledge or skills that warranted the position of trust and authority he was granted?

Goetz: "Has anyone ever noticed that we live in the only country in the world where all the poor people are fat?" - During his first Senate Campaign against Democrat Lloyd Doggett.

Isn't that true? Hell "the poor" people where I live have cable tv, a car and air conditioning.

/I go to work each day to make sure they can maintain the life of leisure they enjoy.

Sweaty Jerry: Where the hell did the Pancakes thing come from again?

Sweaty Jerry: Where the hell did the Pancakes thing come from again?

nowhere

Sweaty Jerry: Where the hell did the Pancakes thing come from again?

I asked the same question:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29738

soy_bomb: Goetz: "Has anyone ever noticed that we live in the only country in the world where all the poor people are fat?" - During his first Senate Campaign against Democrat Lloyd Doggett.

Isn't that true? Hell "the poor" people where I live have cable tv, a car and air conditioning.

/I go to work each day to make sure they can maintain the life of leisure they enjoy.


Really? the poor people where I live sleep on heating grates.

Hobodeluxe:
Love the Orwellian flavor that one has, Luntz is outdoing himself.

a horizon is something that you can move towards forever and never reach. so a time horizon is a time that will never come.

Gotta remember the GOP is full of flat-earthers....

Falcc: The only cliche more frequently used than McCain/Pancakes is "I don't get the correlation between John McCain and pancakes."

Can someone tell me where the "Where does the pancakes thing come from?" come from?

Falcc: The only cliche more frequently used than McCain/Pancakes is "I don't get the correlation between John McCain and pancakes."

Still beats that stupid milkshake meme.

Phil Gramm was right in the first place. We whine while people in third world countries starve to death. Phil has done a lot of great things for our country and its ashame he quit.

It's too bad he quit, because he was absolutely right. Many Americans are whiners. They are too stupid to realize it.

Funny thing is, alot of those whiners will be voting for the democrat party this year. So sad.

My guess: 99% of the people that use that retarded "pancake" meme in headlines referring to McCain have absolutely no idea why they're using it, other than "I saw some other guy use it."

I listened to the Phil Gramm speech, and that ranked as one of the dumbest things I ever heard out of a politicians mouth.

cut and run by a sorry sack of crap politician

Corpus Delecti: My guess: 99% of the people that use that retarded "pancake" meme in headlines referring to McCain have absolutely no idea why they're using it, other than "I saw some other guy use it."

Either way, I already ate McCain's pancakes and support his campaign.