{"id":1128,"date":"2008-09-26T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2008-09-26T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T14:23:59","slug":"fun-facts-about-john-mccain-9-phil-gramm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"Fun Facts About John McCain #9: Phil Gramm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of McCain&#8217;s closest friends and advisers, Phil Gramm, who <a title=\"wrote McCain's economic plan\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/18\/news\/newsmakers\/tully_gramm.fortune\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">wrote McCain&#8217;s economic plan<\/a> and who McCain said he <a title=\"rely on\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yxXMFW1YsNQ\" target=\"_blank\">relies on to understand the economy<\/a>, didn&#8217;t believe the current crisis was possible.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Actually True<\/strong>. Gramm said that &#8220;<a title=\"This is a mental recession...We sort of become a nation of whiners.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2NVjq2py7BA\" target=\"_blank\">This is [only] a mental recession&#8230;We sort of become a nation of whiners<\/a>,&#8221; just a few months ago. But though McCain distanced himself from the comments, but he kept Gramm&#8217;s plans in place. Gramm was, in fact, one of the authors of the bill that <a title=\"deregulated the banking industry\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act\" target=\"_blank\">deregulated the banking industry<\/a>, which many economists say led to this crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of McCain&#8217;s closest friends and advisers, Phil Gramm, who wrote McCain&#8217;s economic plan and who McCain said he relies on to understand the economy, didn&#8217;t believe the current crisis was possible. Actually True. Gramm said that &#8220;This is [only] a mental recession&#8230;We sort of become a nation of whiners,&#8221; just a few months ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[544,22,45,4],"tags":[811],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics","tag-phil-gramm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-ic","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}