McCainwatch for July 10, 2008
Sometimes it seems like McCain is pandering harder than a speed-crazed pimp with a stable of twenty-dollar hookers. His latest? He feels Michigan's pain...

No-one who has seen downtown Detroit can doubt that Michigan is going through hard times. But I dare any committed Republican to show me the real doctrinal difference between what McCain just said there and what Obama has said recently.

And then there is his flaccid response to Phil Gramm's statement that, economically, "We have sort of become a nation of whiners." After disavowing Gramm, McCain either pandered harder or misinterpreted Gramm, take your pick, by saying "I don't agree with Senator Gramm. I believe that the person here in Michigan that just lost his job isn't suffering from a mental recession."

Uh... John, Phil wasn't talking about the people who just lost their jobs. He was talking about the people with money who run companies and who took the other guy's job away because they believe we are in a recession and are therefore making cuts. The one is certainly dealing with a real recession, but Gramm was saying that the other isn't. (Although maybe he will make a real one by, for example, cutting other people's jobs.)

Oh, and John? Phil has a degree in economics. (Making him as likely to be right as any other economist.) What you got?

Oh! Yeah...