McCain campaign official tells me that McCain himself will address Gramm's comments to reporters on his plane today.

Probably over a plate of fucking barbecue.

Good old Phil--still an idiot after all these years. And yet the Republicans are going to try to pin the elitist tag on Obama when they're the ones who are clearly out of touch.

Memo to Obama Camp.

Will you please take this gaffe and beat McGoo over the head with it about fifty thousand times?

McCain keeps talking up his gas tax pander. What has he actually done to accomplish it.

Does anyone know if he has even drafted the legislation and offered it up, in the Senate.
After all, he is talking about just a reduction for the summer months, and they will soon be gone.
Where does it stand. If he has not done the
the work required to get it voted on, then shouldn't the media challenge him on that point every time he mentions his gas tax pander bear.

Here's the response from the Obama campaign at firstread.msnbc.com:

*** UPDATE 2 *** The Obama campaign is pushing the issue now: “One of Senator McCain’s top economic advisors may think that when people are struggling with lost jobs, stagnant wages, and the rising costs of everything from gas to groceries, it’s merely a ‘mental recession’. And Senator McCain may think it’s sufficient to offer energy proposals that he admits will have mainly ‘psychological’ benefits. But the American people know that our economic problems aren’t just in their heads. They don’t need psychological relief -- they need real relief -- and that’s what Barack Obama will provide as President,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton writes.

"mental recession" is what the Repukes have inflicted on us! That Phil Gramm is such a wascally scalawag, he's blaming us for what his party did to us.

ya whining fuckers...ya'r poor ain't dead, learn to live with it...fucking whiners...heee

John McCain should invite America over for some BBQ and a sleep over. There's plenty of room in the 8 mansions.

Mental recession? Hmmm. Who would that remind you of? One clue: he's running for president.

Does Gramm's Nation of Whiners include the shareholders who complain about declining profitability, and whose interests Gramm has tirelessly represented?

I don't mean to whine -- I really don't -- but yesterday I learned that my retirement account has lost 10% of its value in the last six months. I didn't just imagine this economic insecurity, Sen. Gramm, and I lay the responsibility for it at your party's feet... of clay.

It's probably past time for the media to provide some background on Gramm to voters.

Voters should probably find out Gramm's central role in the very economic troubles they are "whining" about. That might be instructive.

Maybe the happy reporters on the Straight Talk Express could offer some insight.

Once they finish their donuts.

"nation of whiners" is good, but "social security is a disgrace" is better since it came from the candidate's mouth.

how about "george w. bush tried to dismantle social security; john mcCain says social security is a disgrace." etc. you could also throw in the GOP's historical hostility to SS. mcSame's response would probably be "i knew FDR; you're no FDR!"

But the American people know that our economic problems aren't just in their heads.

He was smart to include the word "just" in there. Fact is, a lot of our economic status is psychological. When people feel confident they spend more. Economic stimulus is what gets us out of recessions. But Gramm's way of stating it was clumsy and condescending. But he's preaching to the choir. Most Republicnas think Democrats are a bunch of immature whiners. And on the far progressive side there does seem to be alot of that.

Without any doubt if an Obama surrogate had said anything remotely like this the MSM would be up in arms and blast the airwaves for days on end with endless banter and faux analysis about meaning. But, of course, for McCain we shouldn't expect such thing to happen from the MSM. McCain really is way past his prime and out of touch. The only thing he has are his military and national security credentials. Well, if Iraq is going so well, then why do we even need those? We need a completely serious and intelligent man to run this country, and that's Obama. I don't want to have a beer with the Prez or laugh at a crude joke he made, I want him to run the country and make sure my life is safe and secure, and that will require a serious intellect. The GOP failed with Bush and they don't deserve to keep the WH with McCain.

Perhaps Phil Gramm was referring to a personal "mental recession" he experienced when he characterized us as a "nation of whiners."

What vivid imagery there is in McCain responding to Gramm's comments while aboard his plane. Here is the news report I visualize:

John McCain, with his head in the clouds, addressed Gramm's comments. Staring out of the window at the Americans beneath him, the Senator said, "I am with my fellow Americans in feeling economic pains. Have you seen the credit card debt accumulated by me and my wife? How about the property taxes that we owe on our place in California?"

Gazing down below, literally out of toucb with the country, McCain fielded some questions about his economic plans. Unfortunately, the session had to be cut short, as the plane was experiencing some turbulence. As everyone was rushing back to their seats, McCain was heard saying, "This bumpiness is making my stomach do flip flops."

A nation of whiners, huh?
I don't think this nation has been whining enough for past 8 years. The nation should be OUTRAGED by the way the Department of the Lobbying scumbags running everything in the country.

Americans are going to be whining once mccain becomes president

If this had been Obama:

"Obama Does Complete Flip-Flop on Recession; Throws Valued Colleague Under the Bus; Decried by All as Politically Expedient Move to Center"