McCain Tosses Gramm
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 14th, 2008 4:40 am by HL
McCain Tosses Gramm
Time reports that Sen. John McCain has cut ties with former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) and that he is no longer getting economic advice from him.
The Pragmatic Pol
In a must-read piece, Ryan Lizza takes a look at the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s political rise and notes that “perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them.”
Obama “campaigns on reforming a broken political process, yet he has always played politics by the rules as they exist, not as he would like them to exist. He runs as an outsider, but he has succeeded by mastering the inside game.”
July 14th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
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