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by Walter Alarkon - 09/16/08 9:10 AM ET

John McCain may be calling for regulation of the financial sector now, but people shouldn’t forget that one of his economic advisers, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), championed the deregulation that lawmakers now want to fix while another economic adviser, Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain, helped lead his firm into the oblivion, writes Josh Marshall. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), who fashions herself as blue collar and fiscally responsible, installed a tanning bed in the governor’s mansion, writes Kate Klonick. Palin’s spokesman said that Palin paid for the bed herself.

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