I mediate public disputes and a key tenent of working with the public is that you have to work with where the public is, not where you wish they were. This is a loosing strategy for the republicans- Keep it up guys. Every comment like this just shows how out of touch you are. It's sickening.

Awesome. Glad to see McCain and Co spouting their real views.

I keep trying to not get too cocky about the upcoming election, but every time someone from the repub side opens their mouth, something like this comes out...

To paraphrase the immortal Fran Fragos Townsend: It's not a recession. It's just a period of sustained economic prosperity that hasn't happened yet.

This is McCain's equivalent to Barack's 'bitter voters' comment from a bit ago. though this was said by a high profile surrogate of McCain's. hey, what the surrogate says, so means the candidate. this doesn't wash at all. and the MSM, to be consistent, should play this up and report on it fairly. but i'm not going to whine about it if they don't.

Phil Gramm is pure evil. He helped pass laws that allowed Enron to rape California, then his wife got a nice cushy job on Enron's board. Then he helped pass legislation that allowed predatory lending and to make it harder for people to file for bankruptcy. He was a lobbyist for UBS while being McCain's adviser, though he recently 'resigned' from UBS. He may look like a kindly old grandfather, but evil often has a pleasant face. Except for Dick Cheney.

Talk about chutzpah! Phil Gramm was the architect of the subprime fiasco. That, and his lack of a chin coupled with his beady eyes, makes me wish he was more of a public spokesman for McCrazy. What a great target for the Dems to go after. His creepy wife was involved in equally shady machinations. The Gramms are about as appealing as the Ceausescus.

Yes, it's all in our heads. So if we just close our eyes, click our heels three times and say "there's no place like home," all those trillions of dollars that guys like Phil Gramm and his colleagues at UBS flushed down the toilet during the subprime lending bubble will magically reappear!

Statements like these from Phil, who along with the help of his wife Wendy, brought the US the Enron disaster, just go to show that the extremely wealthy are different from the rest of Americans.

It shows that they don't really share the same world that we are forced to live in. They live in some tangental time/space warped place that only exists in their minds, and then they tell us this existence is only in our minds.

But you're all correct on one thing. The MSM won't touch this. They will find some way of blaming Obama for it though. Bet's anyone?

Am I the only that thinks this is good news? It's a relief to find out that I only imagined spending $60 on gas this morning. Phew!

The tons of ordnance dropped in Iraq and Afghanistan is the only "export BOOM" I am aware of.

these comments are not only offensive to the nation as a whole with respect to the economy, but they are also offensive to those suffering from depression.

his statements make it seem as if people that are depressed are somehow just imagining it to be so (and we think the same way about the economy) even though clinical depression is something people often have no control over.

Americans are "whiners"? Why does Phil Gramm hate America?

If the MSM covers this at all, it'll probably be to admire how mavericky and straight-talkin' the McCain campaign is.

FUCK YOU Gramm. While you're mak'n sausage in Washinton I'm here in Nebraska trying to sell steel and make brakets that I sell mostly to the construction and manufacturing industries. Business sucks and is getting worse!

I live in Omaha. Though I don't own any Birkshire Hathaway stock (wish I did), when The Oracle of Omaha (Warren Buffet) says it feels like a recession to him from where he sits it's a FUCKING RECESSION!!!

FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING, FUCKER!!! YOU PUSSY!!!

Saugsage makers. geeze.

After all our homes have been foreclosed on, we can live in vans down by the river. Of course we can't afford to drive them there, so we'll have to get out and push. No need for whining though, things could always be worse, like if Obama gets elected and raises that capital gains tax.

When your neighbor loses his job, it's a Recession.
When you lose your job, it's a Depression.

When Phil Gramm loses his job it's Justice...and it's about time. (But such things don't happen to Plutocrats buffered by the Socialist System they've set up to enrich themselves on the upside and protect themselves from the downsides of their behavior.)

Gramm is evil, and this is just wrong on so many levels.

Let's put that one percent growth in GDP in one column. And then let's put the stagnant wages and energy-driven inflation rates that are likely going to be the highest we've seen since the 1970s in the other column. Let's see which of those columns has more clout at the voting booth.

I am America! Hear me whine!

That whine is gonna throw your pasty Republican ass out on the street where it belongs!

One day comment is accepted, next day it isn't, it does discourage commenting.

WOW, so those high gas prices are all in my head? Great! Now I can stop over-paying at the pump.

It's easy for a millionaire to call the rest of us "whiners" when he doesn't have to worry about the "gas vs. food" dilemma so many Americans face.

Now that I know today is a comment day my thoughts are:

Hope this statement by Gramm is at least heard by the people truly feeling the crunch The elitest telling them to stop whinning don't have a clue how our half lives. Problem is the MSM usually makes sure we hear very little about anything negative concerning Mc Cain. For example, this week has been all about Obama & all of his flips, so far only finance & visa can qualify. As Rachel Maddow pointeed out, the list of Mc Cain flips is a mile long & not a blip. To add to that taking credit for Webb's bill should have been shouted to the roof tops by every progressive alive.

If there were a Democrat in the White House, Gramm would be saying the exact opposite.

I recall during George H.W. Bush's presidency there was a slight recession, and they started running TV ads saying (essentially) "The recession is over if you want it to be-- go out and spend and the recession will be over"-- seems this is cut from the same cloth.

Who're ya gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?! - Phil 'Down On My Knees To Please' Gramm