{"id":415,"date":"2008-05-29T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/another-senior-moment-like-a-lifetime-of-them"},"modified":"2008-05-29T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T02:53:00","slug":"another-senior-moment-like-a-lifetime-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/another-senior-moment-like-a-lifetime-of-them","title":{"rendered":"Another &quot;senior&quot; moment? Like a lifetime of them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We do recall McSame saying he was ridding his campaign of lobbyists&#8230;well sort of maybe he really did not mean it&#8230; this is the straight talk express after all<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;only straight is not straight and talk is cheap and mcsame can&#8217;t tell a lobbyist from any other repug<\/p>\n<p>The latest lobby flap?<\/p>\n<p>Seems his economic go-to guy is the good-ole pol Phil Gramm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Years before Phil Gramm was a McCain campaign adviser and a lobbyist for a Swiss bank at the center of the housing credit crisis, he pulled a sly maneuver in the Senate that helped create today&#8217;s subprime meltdown.<strong><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"Javascript\"><!-- byline_title_by_url('\/news\/feature\/2008\/07\/'); \/\/--> <\/script><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read David Corn&#8217;s article   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/news\/feature\/2008\/07\/foreclosure-phil.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If McSame really got rid of all the lobbyists associated with his campaign &#8211; there might be no one left on his staff : -)<\/p>\n<p>Gosh &#8211; his senior moments keep going and going and going&#8230;and were and were and were&#8230;it&#8217;s a lifetime of saying one thing and then saying the opposite &#8211; the repugs call it flip flopping&#8230;mcsame now calls it straight talk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do recall McSame saying he was ridding his campaign of lobbyists&#8230;well sort of maybe he really did not mean it&#8230; this is the straight talk express after all &#8230;only straight is not straight and talk is cheap and mcsame can&#8217;t tell a lobbyist from any other repug The latest lobby flap? Seems his economic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[738,745],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-flip-flop-mcsame","tag-phil-gramm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}