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July 2008
- 'Venal' Phil Gramm No Big Loss to McCain Camp
  
  Huffington Post | Jul 15, 08 8:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - "Nation of whiners” adviser Phil Gramm was simply an "accident waiting to happen" for the McCain campaign, writes Max Blumenthal in Huffington Post. Blumenthal runs down the “reactionary, venal and destructive” senator’s foibles—which run from enabling Enron to investing in porn. Gramm “left a massive heap of wreckage…in his wake,” Blumenthal asserts, helping former campaign co-chair Ken Lay build the shadow banking system that aided the mortgage meltdown. More »
  
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  John McCain • mortgage crisis • gay rights • pornography • Phil Gramm • Enron • white supremacism • Whinergate
- Mac Pushes Gramm Into the Background
  
  Washington Post | Jul 14, 08 7:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain’s camp has considered Phil Gramm persona non grata since he called Americans "whiners" in a "mental recession" last week, the Washington Post reports. One adviser says he hasn’t spoken to the former senator, a confidante of the Republican on economic matters, “since the comments took place, and I’m not expecting to.” More »
  
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  John McCain • Carly Fiorina • gaffes • Phil Gramm • Whinergate

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