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After raising close to $20 million and spending almost all of it in pursuit of the Republican presidential nomination, Phil Gramm explains his single-digit standing in the polls this way: "The people don't know...
...lucky they don't. Watching Gramm maneuver, one easily understands why so many Americans deride the people they elect to office...
...Gramm is often compared to the late John Connally, another brash Texan with a gift for gab. Yet that comparison ill serves Connally's reputation. Connally was the lousiest of candidates (his $12 million run for the 1980 G.O.P. nod netted him only one delegate) but nobody ever described him as too small for the presidency, which is exactly how many who know Gramm speak...
...Senate is a place where it is considered bad form for members to trash one another (except anonymously), but the word one hears most often when seeking an assessment of Gramm is shameless. Everyone, it seems, is familiar with the definition of "Grammstand:" to take undeserved credit for matters you opposed in the hope no one will notice...
...Texas an additional $5 billion over seven years, but the state's other Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, wants more. Unless an extra $158 million is allotted (which would equal the House sum), Hutchison says, she will vote against the vital reconciliation bill. "I really don't get it," says Gramm, peering over his gold-rimmed aviator glasses, his Muppet-like head bobbing plaintively, "but this is the be-all and end-all for Kay. I don't care about this Medicaid thing myself but I'm being made to look like a wimp. Me, Phil Gramm, a wimp...