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"I was spending more time separating myself from their comments than I was listening to their advice," said McCain, acting as his own press secretary who he had just fired minutes before. "And (top economic advisor Phil) Gramm's 'nation of whiners,' 'only a mental recession' comments, were the straws that broke the camel's back. Look, when I said that 'Phil Gramm doesn't speak for me. I speak for me,' I realized it would just save time if I actually did that." In a blind email sent to his entire staff, McCain wrote, "My friends, it is with deep regret and deeper gratitude for your dedication, hard work and friendship, that I accept your resignation that I expect on my desk by the end of the day." Among the advisors McCain had dropped to date are READ THE REST OF THE STORY HERE. P.S. Will the next New Yorker cover have a drawing of Geo W. Bush as a smart, peace-loving, uniter who isn't responsible for thousands of unnecessary deaths? Award-winning TV writer and author Steve Young blogs at the appropriately named www.greatfailure.com A talk show host, author, columnist,award-winning television writer and filmmaker, his inspiring book, "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (Tallfellow Press) has been published internationally and has become required reading in the Wharton School of Business Masters Program. His "All The News That's Fit To Spoof " column appears every Sunday on the L.A. Daily News Oped Page.
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