Birmingham Blues

Former Sen. Phil Gramm resigned from his position as co-chair of the McCain campaign today, a week after he called the US a “nation of whiners” and declared the current economic troubles a “mental recession”. He blamed Democrats, of course.

“It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Senator McCain on important economic issues facing the country,” Gramm said. “That kind of distraction hurts not only Senator McCain’s ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country’s problems, it hurts the country. To end this distraction and get on with the real debate, I hereby step down as co-chair of the McCain campaign and join the growing number of rank-and-file McCain supporters.”

I guess it was just too hard to say, “Look, I said something really stupid.  I belittled people who are suffering real difficulties covering the ever-increasing costs of gasoline, utilities, food, and health care while seeing little to no growth in their paychecks.  I’m sorry.”

Oh well, it’s not like I was holding my breath.

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