John McCain's Gramm Gamble

Texas Observer by Patricia Kilday Hart | Jun. 4, 2008 (Special Report)

The GOP presidential nominee is relying on the ex-senator who helped bring you the mortgage crisis and Rick Perry.

Gramm serves as co-chair of the McCain 2008 presidential campaign. As one of the candidate's chief economic advisers, he is mentioned as a possible secretary of the treasury in a McCain administration. Their friendship was forged in the Senate as they worked against the Clinton health care proposal, and cemented when McCain served as national chairman of Gramm's own (ill-fated) 1996 presidential bid. Full Story »

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by robert rothman - Oct. 1, 2008

Excellent article! It presents the ugly, awful truth of not only Phil Gramm, but more importantly, John McCain and where he is really coming from, and it ain't pretty. The Usual Suspects are at play here: Phil Gramm, George Bush, Ken Lay, John McCain, Karl Rove, just to name a few. Some of the most blantly anti-democracy, anti-capitalism, pro-monopoly people and politicans in the country today behind the scenes and upfront are part and parcel of John McCain. He is no more of a so-called 'maverick' than Ken Lay was. The general public needs, more than ever before, to hear and read story's like this!