Republicans have apparently decided that when one of them says an embarrassingly stupid thing about the economy, the best thing to do is keep saying it over and over and over again.
“All-Star” and Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes wholeheartedly endorsed Gramm’s assessment, saying he was giving “straight talk” and that “America has become a nation of whiners.” But Barnes took Gramm one step further, acknowledging the economy is “weak,” but that Americans are “whining all the way through it”:
Transcendently dumb, obviously, but oddly enough not the dumbest and most dishonest thing on the economy that the McCain stamp has been on this week.
The McCain camp decided to bring this Grover Norquist article to all of our attentions in case we weren’t quite yet sure that they’ve got the economic instincts of the people who thought that spray-on hair was their ticket to fame and fortune.