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Harry Hope · Guest

Last month rascally economists tried to put the kibosh on John
McCain's Gas Tax Holiday From Reality.

McCain immediately told the economists to get off his lawn.
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/13/mccain-housing-gimmick/

McLAME:

If you want to call it a gimmick, fine. You know the economists?
They're the same ones that didn't predict this housing crisis we're
now in.

Ouch!

Take that, stupid economists.

You morons don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Fast forward to last week when Sen. McCain unveiled his new economic
plan (written by Phil Gramm).

Who better to tout the plan than... economists?
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/Read.aspx?guid=c90681b9-5dfe-4de4-8057-ceedb30c228d

U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today released a
statement signed by over 300 professional economists in support of
John McCain's Jobs for America economic plan.

The list includes Nobel Prize winners, business economists with
experience in the private sector, policy economists with experience in
government and academic economists from major universities and state
and community colleges.

Don't worry, it's not a flip-flop.

He's merely, er, changing his position to meet the facts on the
ground.

Or something.

Oh, and one more thing about those economists who love the
McCain/Gramm plan...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11618.html

Upon closer inspection, it seems a good many of those economists don't
actually support the whole of McCain's economic agenda.

And at least one doesn't even support McCain for president.

In interviews with more than a dozen of the signatories, Politico
found that, far from embracing McCain's economic plan, many were
unfamiliar with - or downright opposed to - key details.

While most of those contacted by Politico had warm feelings about
McCain, many did not want to associate themselves too closely with his
campaign and its policy.

Perhaps John McCain is the one suffering from mental recession.

By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/

Harry