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note to mclame's campaign, if you want people to vote for you, it doesn't pay to insult them
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... addendum: via digby, we learn that our friends at sadly, no! feel the same way we do: this is just a reflection of the very core of repubbblican thinking. the rich get richer and the poor can eat cake. also, altho sen. mcsame "forceably rebuked" sen. gramm's marie antoinette psycho-analysis of us poor folk, huffpo points out that his campaign initially stood by the comments (as gramm still does).

So, who is under the Straight Talk Express? [Karl]
protein wisdom — Maverick John McCain has disavowed comments from his campaign co-chair and economic adviser Phil Gramm that the nation’s economic malaise is a “mental recession” and that “[w]e have sort of become a nation of whiners.”  ...

Whining
Obsidian Wings — ... : ""Phil Gramm’s comments are not representative of John McCain’s views," said a McCain official." A couple of hours later, McCain spoke out more strongly: ...

McCain Claims Gramm ‘Does Not Speak For Me’ On Same Day Gramm Speaks For McCain In Meeting With WSJ
Think Progress — ... ” complaining about a “mental recession,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) declared in Michigan today that he “strongly disagrees” with Gramm. “Phil Gramm does not speak for me,” said McCain. Watch it: ...

Does John McCain Think America Is A “Nation of Whiners”?
This Modern World — Headline at Politico : McCain forcefully rebukes Gramm Oh really? It’s nice that McCain is willing to “rebuke” those comments, why hasn’t he rejected or denounced them? Phil Gramm has said other things I disagree with too, yet I’m still waiting to hear if John McCain is willing to rebuke or dismiss or reject or denounce those comments as well. Does John McCain secretly agree with everything that Phil Gramm has said that I find objectionable? When if John McCain going to finally cut his ties with Gramm? I really think we need to spend the next month talking about this. ...

Introducing Wrong-Way McCain
Crooks and Liars — ... declared the economic downturn a “mental recession” and America a “nation of whiners.” But while a defensive McCain insisted at a press conference Thursday, “I strongly disagree,” on two different occasions earlier this year McCain, too, deemed the recession “ ...