McCain adviser Gramm quits after 'whiners' remarks (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Fri, 07/18/2008 - 8:30pm

**FILE PHOTO** Former Texas Sen.<br /><br />Phil Gramm introduces Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to speak at a town hall meeting, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007, in Des Moines, Iowa.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm resigned Friday from his role as GOP presidential candidate John McCain's campaign co-chairman, hoping to quiet the uproar that followed his comments that the United States had become a "nation of whiners" whose constant complaints about the U.S. economy show they are in a "mental recession."



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