Carly Fiorina, one of McCain's top surrogates and chief economic advisors, has repeatedly distorted Democratic proposals, used dishonest talking points criticizing Democrats, and bizarrely equated the mortgage crisis affecting millions of Americans to a "product recall." Fiorina also called outsourcing "right-shoring" after laying off 18,000 workers while running HP, and defends McCain's support for tax shelters overseas and tax cuts for the rich. Read more...

Phil Gramm has made a career out of deregulating markets for the financial services and mortgage industry in the Senate, after which he went on to become a lobbyist for UBS- a top financial firm with massive subprime mortgage holdings. Gramm also secretively slipped in the "Enron Exemption" into a massive appropriations bill in 2000 that deregulated the energy market for disgraced Enron and set the stage for the current rampant oil speculation which is hiking up gas prices. Read more...

Doug Holtz-Eakin, the once-respected Congressional Budget Office Director, has the unenviable task of selling policies and proposals that only years before, at the CBO, he knew were incomplete, incoherent, or wrong. This economic advisor is a casualty of McCain's war of attrition to convince the ultra-right wing of his party that they should vote for him. Fiscal conservatism and common sense have gone out the window, as the old Holtz-Eakin's opinions on budgeting have. Read more...