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devilsadvocate
John McCain? Are you serious? He's not one of the financial meltdown's biggest losers. He caused his own trouble by undertaking a cheap political stunt.
roger37
He also said early on in the campaign that he didn't know anything about economics. When the economy melted down, he was hardly a credible person to pull us out of it.
We really dodged a bullet when that intemperate little man didn't get elected.
whipmawhopma
roger37 - That and McCain's emotionally tinged interest in getting us involved in a war between Russia and Georgia. And his crapshoot selection of a VP.
MariosRight
I would have loved to see Phil Gramm and wife mugshots in that gallery.
The sad thing is none of those guys pictured suffered much financially. They are still living high and still own their yachts and beachside mansions.
sophia5
Just wondering if the columnist is friends with
Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd ?
Grimmace
Damn, you beat me to the punch. But in all seriousness, with the irony of the author's name aside, how could Dodd and Frank not be somewhere in this rogue's gallery given the primacy of the housing bubble in the financial meltown and these two's role in inflating that bubble?
ThinkAgain
McCain said he didn't know much about the economy way back in the summer of 2008. Not only did that show an incredible lack of political sense but someone with 26 years of experience could reasonably be expected to know a little something about macro economics just from "being there". Then his approach to the meltdown revealed a lack of leadership skills and seemed almost bizarre. But I don't think he had much chance even without the meltdown.
Grimmace
I agree with your analysis of McCain's leadership and incoherent actions during last years meltdown, but I just don't see how he can be selected as the lone politician to grace this gallery -- there were many others with far more culpability in my opinion. In fact, several years prior McCain was one of the few warning about the looming Freddie and Fannie debacle that was looming.
Again, incoherent, uninspired, confused, indecisive? Absolutely! But it's hard for me to say that McCain was one of the key guys with blood on his hands and egg on his face for the financial meltdown.
whipmawhopma
ThinkAgain - I got the feeling at several moments during the course of McCain's campaign that his heart really wasn't in it. That he was essentially going through the motions as a matter of duty and the expectations of others.
SaintNick
Ah.. the press helping us livin' in the past. And we call ourselves "progressives". Not much progress in dissing former leaders, no matter what party they represent. Surely we can spend out time on better things than old worn out sophmoric stories and finger pointing.
MariosRight
People all too soon forget even recent history. They need to be reminded who the culprits are, lest we find ourselves back in the same boat again.
SaintNick
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whipmawhopma
Phil Gramm and Chris Dodd seem to be missing. Those two names immediately come to mind.
Dolmance
What do you expect from a bunch of life long Ayn Rand hacks?
She was a deeply unpleasant woman who's mean spirited meanderings in the 50's were very popular with sullen teenage girls who happened to have a bit of an intellectual bent.
The fact that these people were allowed to have a say in anything says volumes about the Republicans. But the main thrust of what it says about them is - THEY'RE FOOLS!!!
MOZART
Yes, I , to, missed Phil Gramm. Remember he was the Moron that told us, who questioned what was going on in the financil world , that we were all whinners..
Maybe the camera broke when they went to get his picture.
One thing, if you read about those fools you will see that really, they have not suffered that much.
Their stupidity and greed should have put those goons, all of them, in jail.
I live in Texas, and believe me, ever since Gramm come on the scene thirty years ago he has been a crook.
And his crooked wife was one of the "insiders"
that was responsible for the fall of Enron.
Another crook from Texas... Tom Delay, is Dancing with the Stars these days.
Whatever happened to all the charges against Delay in Texas? Everyone that was ready to testify against Delay have somehow dissapeared and no one even talks about the court case anymore.
When the Mafia rules the State of Texas... Republicans can get away with murder, and they do just that.
Tom Delay came back to Texas a few months ago... big black limo with his "entourage", greeted by all the Lunatic Fringe in Houuston. That Moron, if he had any character at all would be too ashamed to be seen in Houston, but not Tom Delay. He praced around like a demented jackass the whole weekend.t.
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