Can Phil Gramm Run Fast Enough
Another greedy Republican crook from Texas, former Senator Phil Gramm, might be one step ahead of a couple of indictments. At the very least, he’s once again unemployed. Until, of course, a money changer spot opens up at the temple.
Phil Gramm: already in the handbasket
Gramm’s leadership at UBS has come to a halt. They call it a “retirement.” What a nice word for getting the hell outta Dodge.
Gramm was the mover and shaker at UBS when all hell broke loose and UBS found itself at the center of international banking hanky-panky. While in the senate, he passed the laws to make it possible for UBS to hide American money from taxes, and then when he left the senate in 2003, he went to work for UBS.
Nice job, huh? Things went great for a while, money flying out of this country, making Phil and his friends rich and beloved.
But,
Guess the bank must have been disappointed when he wasn’t able to get them out of the mess their greedy tax evasion business got them into. Hmmm. That does make one wonder just how much Gramm knew about UBS’s business of pushing secret accounts that the IRS couldn’t trace, smuggling diamonds in toothpaste tubes, and generally doing whatever necessary to make loads of money by helping US taxpayers avoid their tax liability under US tax laws?
PS In a “serves it right” result, UBS reported a fourth quarter net profit decline of 76%…..
Haircuts and drinks are on the house the day Gramm is indicted.
One other interesting note. Although he never registered as a lobbyist, Gramm “helped build the UBS Office of Public Policy in Washington, D.C.”
Well, if Newt can be paid to be a historian instead of a lobbyist, I guess Phil can be paid to be a water boy.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads-up. Don’t forget: this week only, if you order a Blizzard and mention that you saw it on Juanita’s, Alfredo promises not to charge you extra. This offer is only good until Saturday.
Can it be that Karma is flexing her muscles and is about to let fly on these Republican folks at long last? Here in Arizona, Joe Arpaio may soon be available for inmate consultation on how to build tent cities for fun and profit. Of course, none of the profit would be his, but he might get some time off his sentence for helping the “gubmint”
1Jaunita girl you are too funny with words. I love your take on things and come here for a good laugh.
2JJ, please say you will be serving your famous Sangria. I can help by bringing guacamole and chips.
Gramiam, I hear Karma has some really fine muscles. May she flex away!
3Oh please, please, please, please……INDICT….Gramm is one of the absolute masterminds of the criminality that has has been perpetuated upon America for the past 30 years…he belongs in a real prison – like Gitmo.
4The “grand old party,” began with the noble aim of ending slavery. It was Abe Lincoln’s party. Later it became the greed hawg party, and Gramm is an epitome of that sorry decline. His lot played on red neck social issues and racial bias to build a “new majority.” Now the Gramms and the Roves are being pushed to the sidelines by Eric Hoffer’s True Believers, and the new GOP is the party of Rick Santorum. So, when Gramm goes to prison, may he receive newspapers and watch TV, so he can continue to observe his party disappear into the abyss he helped create. Send momma out of the room, and I will tell you what I really think.
5Well, Gramm might be the smartest person* to have ever lived in College Station, and he probably isn’t the crookedest , but he probably does have the highest combined score (most crooked Aggies have been pretty dumb). If I’d invented CDSs I’d have been wearing sackcloth and ashes for the last four years, but then I’m not a Republican.
*in saying that I’m leaving out all the agriculturalist, horticulturist, biologist, climatologist and just about everyone else that worked in the science buildings (and including my favorite Vet, who was a waitress in that town while in school). Because, as a cook, I love A&M onions and sweet ‘taters and …; as a human being who may soon be living in an arid region, I think your wheat will soon be even more important to even more, and your weather guy told Icky to stuff it once, even though it was Icky who made him the state climatologist; (and Doc Cynthia has made my big guy’s life tolerable in spite of this horrible weird cat tooth thing that would take me three and a half months salary to fix right.). The reason I don’t mind leaving those wonderful people out when discussing A&M, is because about eighty percent of the Ags I know get real, real perturbed if they are mentioned while talking about their alma mater.
6One of the things local Rep/Village People dress-alike Pete Olson touts on his accomplishments is serving as an aide to Phil Gramm. I’m guessing Olson isn’t going to trumpet this connection when and if indictments start flowing. Gramm and his wife Wendy were up to their necks in Enron and managed to escape due no doubt to the fact a partisan Justice Department was lax. Maybe this time we’ll see justice.
7Wendy and Phil cause me to want to believe in purgatory.
Her little stint on Enron’s board cost a lot of folks beside me green folding dollars.
Wonder what they pillow talk about. How to make themselves rich while screwing over everybody else.
8Is there ANYONE foolish enough to trust Gramm to change money?
9I have had the honor of voting against Phil Gramm in 10 elections. I seemed to just follow him and end up in the unhappy position of being in his district. Thank God that insanity of him being in office came to an end.
10G-O-P = Greed, Oil, Pietism
11Amen!
12If ol’ pencil-neck is indicted I know a yellow dog who will find room in the coffin for dancin’ a jig.
Still miss ya Moly…
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