Texas Republican trashes Bush

With friends like fellow Texan Phil Gramm, does George W. Bush need Democrats to keep him on his toes?

Gramm sat down with folks from the Washington Times and when he was done, he left Bush in roughly the same position as Dick Cheney's hunting partner: full of lead pellets.

Maybe it's a Texas thing.

Gramm, the former Republican senator, came up with these choice tidbits about the current Republican president:

"We've had eight years of ever-increasing growth in government and in levels of spending."

"Bush should have vetoed a lot more [spending] bills."

On Iran, he said Bush hasn't been tough enough, and suggested "a naval quarantine."

For more of Gramm on Bush click here.. And he lots to say, according to our Top of the Ticket colleagues, on John McCain.

-- James Gerstenzang

Photo: Dennis Cook / Associated Press

Comments

[Jeugenen]

AMERICA’S SHADY AGE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

America’s Shady Age of Treasonous Tyrannical Political Correctness is over; it is the dawn of the Sunny Age of Patriotic Revolutionary Political Bluntness.

America’s Christian Culture and Constitutional Rule shall be restored in course of the ongoing Cultural War, by whatever Constitutional means necessary.

[Ram]

Thank you Dr.Gramm for saying what is true.

Greatest nation on earth and we fear competition from Mexico. Great point.

1. Complain about declining house prices when they had risen crazily before.(I know a house in CA that cost $50000 10yrs back and is now $1.5 mil)
2. Complain about $4 gas when most of the world is paying a lot more.
3. Complain about NAFTA, when Trade really makes everybody better
4. Complain about schools, when great education requires parental involvment.
5. Complain abut not getting big enough big enough retirment checks.

What happened to the spirit and hardiness of the American West.

[Al Ramirez]

Phil Gramm criticizing the President and the Republican's in Congress is a lot like an older brother telling you how you are screwing up and pissing off your parents and he's tired about hearing all the bad news when he comes home for the Holidays. In the end though he's your bro and he's gonna help you out but if someone else said it ( a Democrat) then those would be fighting words. All that said, Phil also needs to remember that "you never let anyone know what you are thinking outside of the family and never take a position against the family". Maybe he should make a big bowl of pasta this weekend and watch the Godfather again.