| Today, Phil "mental recession" Gramm has an op-ed in the WSJ disputing the notion that the deregulation he promoted while in the Senate had anything to do with the financial crisis. Gramm - the poster child for a movement defending deregulation - relied on a series of tired conservative tropes in an attempt to exonerate himself from well deserved culpability. |
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