Darn-Breaking news-Phil Gramm resigns as campaign co-chairman

[jenmito]

Per MSNBC. No commentary yet. I'm sure Keith will cover it.

ETA Obama campaign's response: "The question for John McCain isn't whether Phil Gramm will continue as chairman of his campaign, but whether he will continue to keep the economic plan that Gramm authored and that represents a continuation of the policies that have failed American families for the last 8 years."

[PresidentObama]

1. Awwww, but he was the gift that keeps on giving.

Resigns my ass. McCain forced him out.

[jenmito]

4. I know. I'm upset about this...

but it's too bad for McCain that he didn't SAY he forced him out. Now Obama can STILL use Gramm against him, since he didn't force him out publicly.

[Blarch]

2. On KO now.

[jenmito]

6. Yup. Thanks.

:hi:

[redstate_democrat]

3. Why did he have to RESIGN? Why didn't McCain have the BALLS

to kick him out. This isn't good for McCain. McCain just looks like a dumbass as usual. He should have tore into Gramm last week instead of waiting to be handed a resignation.

FUCKTARD.

[jenmito]

8. I agree. I think Obama should still use Gramm against him since McCain didn't publicly force him

out, implying he didn't disagree with him enough to do so.

[cbc5g]

5. This is bad news for McCain...shows weakness

Why didn't he fire him and why did it take so long? WEEAKKNESSSS

[sniffa]

7. I knew someone would beat me to this thread

:patriot:

[jenmito]

12. I've been beaten by other people many times on threads I wanted to start...

Now it's YOUR turn to be beat. :P :D

[blogslut]

9. B-B-But I thought they made up!

Fickle, fickle McSamers!

[jenmito]

13. That story probably didn't go over too well, so they had to flip-flop on that.

:D

[eleny]

And with apologies

I guess the porn stuff was the straw? :shrug:

[KaryninMiami]

10. I'm curious about whether the porn story is only a portion of the things

yet to be uncovered about this guy. Hopefully some good reporters are working on this now- would sure be interesting to unravel more stuff about him- even if he is off the campaign.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Ties to the Swiss Bank Tax Fraud for American Billionares

UBS vows to expose tax-cheat
Geoff Elliott, Washington correspondent | July 19, 2008

UBS, the world's largest private banking group, stunned the financial world yesterday when it shelved all its offshore banking services for US residents and appeared to rip up the traditional Swiss franchise of secrecy, saying it was co-operating with the US's tax authorities to expose tax cheats.

Caught up in the same document sweep from the LGT Bank in Liechtenstein that exposed the private banking dealings of Australia's Frank Lowy, a UBS executive fronted a congressional inquiry in Washington DC and announced a stunning about-face.

"I am here today to make it absolutely clear that UBS genuinely regrets any compliance failures that may have occurred," said Mark Branson, UBS's Zurich-based chief financial officer of global wealth services.

"We have decided to exit entirely the business in question," he said of questionable banking services for US residents. "That means UBS will no longer provide offshore banking or security services to US residents through our bank branches."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,2404...

[AllentownJake]

14. LOL

Goodluck finding someone with a clean record to co-chair your campaign Senator McCain after the past 8 years :rofl:

[jenmito]

15. Yeah...

maybe the liar Carly Fiorina will take over. She's much better. :rofl:

[AllentownJake]

18. Destroying two great American Companies

One that is now owned by the French and the other that hasn't been the same since her departure.

I want her to be VP so bad because my father worked at Lucent and she was involved in the process that led to his early retirement. Would love for her to be exposed for the corrupt evil person she is.

[jenmito]

22. I know! I REALLY hope she takes his place AND becomes VP!

:D

[mikiturner]

16. Can't wait for the Obama Response nt

[jenmito]

17. I hope they pound the fact that McCain was apparently happy with Gramm staying, since he didn't

get rid of him. He just resigned on his own out of embarrassment.

[jenmito]

23. See my post below-they responded already. n/t

[MzShellG]

19. Oh so McSame threw Gramm under the bus huh? nt

[Major Hogwash]

20. This is the 3rd shakeup of the McCain campaign in 7 months!!

If McCain can't run a national campaign for President, then how can he run the country?

[jenmito]

21. OBAMA CAMPAIGN'S RESPONSE: "The question for John McCain isn't whether Phil Gramm

will continue as chairman of his campaign, but whether he will continue to keep the economic plan that Gramm authored and that represents a continuation of the policies that have failed American families for the last 8 years." :bounce:

[NatBurner]

27. they need to hammer this

like, ruthless left hooks to the noggin-

make him renounce, and reject, and repudiate and alla that other bullshit. several times a day.

[jenmito]

31. It sounds like they will since they're implying McCain is still using Gramm's

policies. And that response came out damn quickly.

[NatBurner]

24. throw the rascals out (!)

bye, mickeyfickey!! don't let the doorknob hit ya!!

[ErinBerin84]

25. haha, the Gramm statement was so, dare I say it, whiney.

"It's apparent that the Democrats would rather attack me and its distracting from McCain's economic plans and solutions, blah blah blah whatever". Gee, why would someone ever attack the person who wrote the candidate's policies?

[jenmito]

30. Yeah-he blamed the DEMS.!

:rofl:

[mloutre]

36. Yupperdoodles. Meow, meow, meow, meow.

Paging Dr. Phil, paging Dr. Phil:

[PBS Poll-435]

26. F***!!! Now he is going to be back here hangin' out in my neck of the woods.

Or at least the same state.

:evilgrin:

[jenmito]

28. Sorry to hear it...

but I'm sure you won't run into him (unless you WANT to)! :D

[PBS Poll-435]

29. Maybe at the Country Club...

or the live Kitteh sacrifice.

:shrug:


ETA-I can't spell for nothing after Happy Hour

[ErinBerin84]

32. I went to Chris Cillizza's blog The Fix on the Washington Post

and he had written about Phil Gramm something like "Phil Gramm, joining Susan Rice and Geraldine Ferraro in the tradition of campaign surrogates forced to leave for saying impolitic things.." Uh buddy, don't you mean Samantha Power? Talk about lazy fucking reporting. The website screwed up my computer for a minute, so I don't really feel like checking back to see if it was fixed . Of course, no mention of the Enron loophole, etc.

[jenmito]

33. JEEZ! I can't believe that!

They BETTER fix it! And I can't believe he put them in the same category. Just like everyone was putting Gramm in the same category as Jesse Jackson.

[ErinBerin84]

34. yeah, it really pissed me off. And then I got even more pissed off because

the site made my computer crash.


Fuck Chris and his twin from the New Yorker :)

[jenmito]

35. I guess it would make it worse...

Yeah-Ryan Lizza. :)