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Is Phil Gramm really persona non grata with John McCain?

For months, it was conventional wisdom that Phil Gramm, the former Texas senator, had the inside track to serve as Treasury Secretary if his pal Sen. John McCain wins the White House. Then came all that ugliness about calling America...


McCain camp says really, seriously, Dr. Phil is out. Mostly.

The McCain camp is now risking the ire of the Prince of Darkness, taking direct issue with the report from Robert Novak regarding the surrogate who just won't go away. Gramm in or out? Out, says McCain spokesman Jeff...


Watch McCain economic adviser, speaking for McCain, insist that Gramm doesn't speak for McCain, only McCain speaks for McCain

The relevant clip of McCain senior economic adviser on PBS the other night, saying Phil Gramm no longer is advising the Arizona senator....


No Whining, Dr. Phil; Joking aside, Gramm really is out

Sen. John McCain's top economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, was on PBS Nightly Business Report on Friday night (sorry, Trailblazers missed it; sometimes we have other things to do on a Friday night) and was peppered about Phil Gramm's assertion that...


McCain on Gramm: "I hope he's brushing up" on his Russian

The fallout over Phil Gramm's assertion that Americans are a "nation of whiners" continues. John McCain told reporters this afternoon in Wisconsin that he'd spoken with his longtime pal and national campaign co-chair, the voluble ex-senator from Texas. "Sure," McCain...


McCain ready to exile Gramm to Belarus

Last week in Minsk, Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko at Belarus Independence Day. Could Gramm win Senate confirmation in time for next year's parade? Obama pounced on Gramm's "nation of whiners" statement. "America already has one Dr. Phil. We don't...

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