County commissioner Joe Martinez gives an unintelligible response, ". Rain risk, climate and weather, are the first reasons cited in the report. "Marlins win, but fans fail to fill seats" reads The Miami Herald headline. What do John McCain or Phil Gramm really know about running a household budget like an ordinary American? Not much. Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day."
Gramm would like to spin our economic distress as a figment of the media's imagination. Who can forget, that the biggest mistake McCain made in his political life was rushing to throw a lifeline to Charles Keating, a campaign supporter in the last major financial blow-up related to financial crimes? Of course Democrats will use the McCain/Gramm equation until November. If this is a "freak show", it is only because Bush Republicans and top party campaign contributors have become more insulated by wealth and more isolated from ordinary Americans than any epoch since the Gilded Age of Robber Barons. Merrill Lynch cut 4200 jobs this year and its losses are nearing $15 billion. A firm like Merrill Lynch, for instance, that just hired head of sales and trading Thomas Montag with a $40 million bonus. That's only true if you are a top financial executive at financial institutions that continue to award top executives millions in compensation despite losing billions for shareholders. Compared to our global competitors, Gramm says, "We've never been more dominant we've never had more natural advantages than we have today."
In addition to the "constant complaining and whining", Gramm pitches the state of the nation's economic health. I disagree with the "freak show" part of it. The reality is that Gramm was one of McCain's closest confidantes when it came to the economy and simply because the former Texas Senator is no longer affiliated with the campaign does not mean Democrats won't remind voters of his comments in the fall. * It's a near-certainty that Democrats won't give up on the issue. * Gramm's resignation is the inevitable byproduct of the modern political game best described by John Harris and Mark Halperin in "The Way to Win" as the "freak show." Once Gramm's comments made the cable television rounds for a few days, it was something close to inevitable that he would resign. After retiring from the US Senate, Gramm became a consultant to the financial services industry he helped de-regulate then a top executive at one of the banks, UBS, now suffering from investing billions in toxic debt.Ĭhris Cillizza, Washington Post political blogger, writes: You wouldn't expect anything less from a key architect of the nation's financial collapse. In a recent interview, Gramm called Americans, "a nation of whiners". The Republican nomenclatura have woken up to the fact the national economic crisis unleashed by the housing boom and bust, substantially assisted by prominent Republican developers and Florida Bush team players like Al Hoffman, will dwarf every other issue in November.Ī month ago, I highlighted Hoffman and Gramm, former Senator from Texas and chair of the Senate Banking Committee, in " John McCain and the company he keeps". Not a good day to resolve any equation for John McCain. and make it harder to expand the county's urban development boundary.” Ballot questions to make petition drives easier. Also I am unhappy because the Commissioners had the audacity to throw out the most important recommendations the Task Force made: Because they did, I will probably vote no. Tempting, really tempting but the thought of waiting for some of them to get arrested and/or be taken out in a body bag is too long for me. Most of the unreformable majority (Gimleteye's phrase) in office are addicted to power, I call them "Power Sluts." In fact, you have to wonder why they would run at all for that salary. The reason I like the pay hike is because it is hard to get good candidates to run a $200,000 campaign for a salary of $6,000 a year. So the citizens will have to decide on: Raise and NO outside jobs (without term limits). The Commissioners “untied” the pay hike from number 2 yesterday. The Charter Review Task Force originally tied the raise to 2 elements: 1) Having to give up outside jobs (a very good thing) and 2) Term limits. The Miami Herald reported that Dade leaders reject reforms: Miami-Dade commissioners will ask voters for a huge pay raise but voted to reject almost every ballot item suggested by a government reform task force. Should I vote to give the wicked Queen more money and the rest of the "unreformable majority"? (Hit on read more)
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