{"id":206,"date":"2008-07-10T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/07\/10\/wham-bam-no-thank-you-phil-gramm\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T21:42:10","slug":"wham-bam-no-thank-you-phil-gramm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/07\/10\/wham-bam-no-thank-you-phil-gramm\/","title":{"rendered":"Wham! Bam! No Thank You, Phil Gramm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain and his economic advisor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/jonathanmartin\/0708\/Phil_Gramm_to_Americans_Suck_it_up.html\">Phil Gramm should really get their stories straight:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John McCain&#8217;s campaign says in their new ad that the economy is &#8220;in shambles.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Washington Times, Gramm says the economy is in relatively decent shape \u2014 and much more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Gramm said: &#8220;We have sort of become a nation of whiners. &#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally, Gramm blames our &#8220;mental recession&#8221;\u00a0on the media.\u00a0 And that brings me to my latest political verse:<\/p>\n<p>Wham! Bam!\u00a0 No Thank You, Phil Gramm!<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re &#8220;a nation of whiners,&#8221; says Gramm.<br \/>\nOur economy&#8217;s not in a jam.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a &#8220;mental recession,&#8221;<br \/>\nThis public obsession<br \/>\nWith price hikes and jobs on the lam.<\/p>\n<p>So who is at fault? It&#8217;s the press.<br \/>\nYes, says Gramm, they have brought on this mess.<br \/>\nIt would seem that reporting<br \/>\nThe news isn&#8217;t sporting.<br \/>\nVote McCain for continued &#8220;success.&#8221; [tags]Phil Gramm, Economy Verse, Media Poem, Campaign Satire, Election Humor, Vote McCain, Mental Recession, Nation Of Whiners\u00a0[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain and his economic advisor Phil Gramm should really get their stories straight: John McCain&#8217;s campaign says in their new ad that the economy is &#8220;in shambles.&#8221; &#8230; In an interview with the Washington Times, Gramm says the economy is in relatively decent shape \u2014 and much more. &#8220;You&#8217;ve heard of mental depression; this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,44,21,114,20,40,26,167,7,3,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}