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Obama’s phony recoveryBy Dick Morris - 02/14/12 06:11 PM ET President Obama, faced with no recovery from the recession as he enters an election year, has come up with a handy political gimmick: Fake the statistics. The economic data that portend recovery are totally and completely inventions of Obama’s political operation. The reality is that no recovery is taking place! Economist James Fitzgibbon, of the Highlander Fund, explains how cooked the economic statistics on which the president bases his claims of recovery really are. Begin with “gains” in the stock market. Fitzgibbon explains that they are no indication of changes...

RUSH: I want to move on to this Dick Morris business and the attack on the Catholic Church last week by Obama. I want to ask you, if you remember back in January there was a presidential debate, a Republican debate in Manchester. Do you remember -- 'cause this is a setup for what's coming -- do you remember, we were all perplexed here. George Stephanopoulos kept hounding Romney on contraception. It had not come up, nobody had said anything about it, and we were all confused, as was Romney, what the deal was. Well, it is Dick Morris' theorem...

Dick Morris: Obama’s sneaky treaties By Dick Morris - 02/07/12 06:53 PM ET President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are entering negotiations over — or seeking ratification of — five treaties that could radically limit our national sovereignty and the reach of our democratic institutions. Particularly scary is that the treaties, once signed and ratified, have the same status as constitutional law and cannot be altered or eclipsed by Congress or state legislatures. And their provisions must be enforced by U.S. courts.

For students of American politics, following the way the Romney campaign played Newt Gingrich in Florida is a lesson to learn and to keep. Romney’s people must have realized that Newt does best when he is positive. His bold ideas, clear vision, revolutionary insights and extraordinary perspectives resonate with voters and win him millions of supporters. Romney, less compelling but more consistent, doesn’t need stellar debate performances or bold vision to win. The case for the former Massachusetts governor is more circumstantial: He can reach out to independents by virtue of his past apostasies on healthcare and abortion. He looks,...

Down goes Juan Williams. Down goes John King. Down goes the media elites. And, down goes the Dick Morris who told us Rick Santorum won the debate on Thursday night. Hear the roar. Edmund Wright at The American Thinker describes the failure of the liberal media and Republican elites to understand the passion, the intensity and frustration of the Great Unwashed after three years of Barack Obama and a corrupt Obama-coddling media. After Thursday’s debate was over in Charleston, I assumed that Newt had not only survived the Marianne episode, but had benefitted from it. I also figured he would...

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss who won last night’s Republican debate in Charleston, South Carolina. One man won the debate. The other will win the election! Tune in!

Speaking on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" Wednesday night, political strategist and best-selling author Dick Morris called Rep. Ron Paul's rise in the polling for the Iowa caucuses one of the most distressing political developments of the season. Morris told substitute host Eric Bolling that it was "horrible" that Paul was doing so well. Several polls have him leading in Iowa, though in recent days former House Speaker Newt Gingrich seems to be mounting a comeback. "I think that he is absolutely the most liberal, radical, left-wing person to run for president of the United States in the last 50...

I hardly ever watch O'Reilly and haven't seen Dick Morris lately. Tonight I caught him on the show. He's never been a picture of health and fitness, but those are the eyes of a man that needs medical attention pronto.

This is the final video of a special six segment series of me interviewing GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. In this video, Herman lays out the case for his candidacy and tells me why he would be the strongest candidate. I am not planning to back any of the GOP contenders but want to help them all get their message out and then back the nominee in 2012.

The genius of pollsters and forecasting public opinion (ask Bill Clinton!) explains why the worst fate of a politician is not to be liked or disliked but to be ignored and not taken seriously has finally caught up with Obama. The endless teleprompter rhetoric and spin is becoming tiresome even to some of his supporters!

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss how Gallup’s new data shows how farfetched Obama’s dream of re-election really is. I give you all the latest polling data. Tune in!

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss the battle of freedom going on in Ohio. The unions are trying to repeal the best reform law in America. If they win, they get their power back. If they lose, we beat them nationally and the vote is in two weeks!

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement. The demonstrations will turn against Obama and will further undermine his chances of re-election. I explain why. Tune in!

In an interview with conservative radio icon Sean Hannity, former President Clinton adviser and campaign manager Dick Morris stated that, after speaking with a Democratic strategist, he thinks it is “very possible” that President Obama might acquiesce to requests from the Democratic leadership in Congress and bow out of the 2012 race, leaving the door open for him to return sometime in the future. “I asked a top Democratic strategist the other day and he thought that it was possible that, in January, Harry Reid comes to Obama and says, ‘Look you cost us control of the House last year,...

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss how a new poll shows real erosion, for the first time, in African-American attitudes toward the president. This could be a catastrophe for him!

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss the possibility of Obama pulling out of the presidential race. As the negative poll numbers pile up and his base desserts him, will Obama actually run? If he doesn’t who will? How will it impact the race?

As bad news piles up for the Democrats, I asked a top Democratic strategist if it were possible that President Obama might “pull a Lyndon Johnson” and soberly face the cameras, telling America that he has decided that the demands of partisan politics are interfering with his efforts to right our economy and that he has decided to withdraw to devote full time to our recovery. His answer: “Yes. It’s possible. If things continue as they are and have not turned around by January, it is certainly possible.” Just looking at Michelle Obama’s unsmiling face during her husband’s recent speech...

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss how Obama’s tax proposals are more than deficit reduction solutions. They are the opening rounds in his re-election strategy of class warfare. But it will backfire massively!

Ultimately, all recessions and depressions resolve themselves into crises of confidence. The instant, global, 24/7 communications of today make them ever more so. President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States in reversing global panic. To the contrary, his every remark and the constant preoccupation of his Cabinet is to heighten the sense of crisis and to escalate the predictions of doom if we do not do as they tell us and raise spending now and taxes later.

The serious problems Rick Perry faces in the primary and potential general election, outlined by Dick Morris in this video clip, are self-explanatory.

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss Rick Perry’s chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination. He was way out ahead. Then he took some tough shots. Will Rick Perry make it?

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss the clear message that the Brooklyn-Queens Congressional Republican victory sends to Obama: He is losing his base!

ARKANSAS: Police in Conway have received two complaints in the past week about a man who seems desperate to suck women’s toes — whether they want him to or not. There’s nothing illegal about a foot fetish but police are looking for a toe-sucking man they said has crossed the line into assault. “We want him off the streets,” said Conway police spokeswoman LaTresha Woodruff. Last Saturday, Ruth Harris, 83, told police she was sitting in a chair in front of her apartment when a man approached and said he liked her feet. According to a police report, the man...

The speech was an impromptu state of the union address delivered in September. Will it work economically? Politically? How will Congress react? What should the Republicans do? Dick lays it all out

Last week we learned that Latinos are leaving Obama. Now comes the news that young people are as well Category:

The debate tonight marks the start of the real race for the nomination. Pre-season is over. Dick explains what's at stake for each candidate and what Perry must do to deserve front runner status

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Joining us is Dick Morris, former adviser to President Clinton, author of the book "Revolt." Dick, I wanted to talk to you. I want you to tell me the different strategy for the different candidates because it's so varied, if you were advising. Let's start with Governor Rick Perry. If you were advising him, what's his path to victory to get that nomination? DICK MORRIS, DICKMORRIS.COM, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, first of all, it feels so weird to be talking politics with this disaster unfolding. I hope the viewers forgive us. Rick Perry is...

The environmentalists have flipped out! They are sitting in at the White House to protest new energy sources like oil sands and demanding new regulations on power plants and industry. If Obama gives in, it means higher gas prices. If not, he loses their support

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I talk about what is going on in Europe. Is Europe unraveling? What’s causing it? Will the Euro be dissolved? And how is Greece’s situation vis-à-vis Germany like the U.S. and China?

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I evaluate what the Eleventh Circuit decision means for the fate of Obamacare.

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss how the Tea Party is the real winner and Obama is the big loser in the Debt Fight.

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I analyze the state-by-state polls and predict disaster for Obama.

By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann 07.30.2011 In the parlance of Washington, the Democrats are going to get the upper hand in the final round of the debt debate. Republicans will succeed in making a vast cut in federal spending, unimaginable before the 2010 election and will block any tax increases. Democrats will get an extension of the debt limit until after the election so as to avoid dragging Obama through this process again. But the damage this debate has inflicted on the Obama Presidency is so deep and profound that it will have played a large part in dooming...

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I explain how Obama blew up the debt deal to appease the left. Soros and Co. are pulling his strings.

If you loved Wednesday's Twitter Town Hall...and you know our feelings on how that went down...then rev up your Tweets for Twitter Republican Presidential Debate. Noon to 1:30 p.m. West Coast Time on Wednesday July 20. To be moderated by infamous toe-sucker and pollster/Fox News analyst/former Clintonista Dick Morris. Sponsored by the 350,000-online-member TeaParty.net, you can check it out at TheTeaParty.net or here. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), former Minneosota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former PA Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) are in. Organizers are waiting...

Dick Morris exposes how Obama is using the National Labor Relations Board to force employees to join unions.

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What is Sarah Palin up to? She is touring the country in a campaign bus, appearing at campaign rallies, making campaign speeches, drawing campaign crowds. But, she insists, it’s no campaign. Or at least that she’s no candidate. In 1995, General Colin Powell paralyzed the Republican nominating process by flirting with running for president as he toured America signing his new book. He ultimately didn’t run, but he sold a lot of books and monopolized the nation’s attention for months in the autumn. In 2007, Barack Obama toured America signing books and used the tour to animate his image and...

With only 23% hard name recognition (16-7 favorable), why would Mitch Daniels be a significant candidate with so many better known men and women in the potential field? There is, of course, his splendid record as governor of Indiana. He has done everything a governor could do. He took a deficit and produced a surplus with no tax increase (although he flirted with one early in his term but dropped the idea). His education choice legislation is the most advanced in the nation and will offer all Indiana children the ability to use state funds to go to the school...

Piously posturing as the savior of Medicare, President Obama lashed out at the House Republicans for embracing the budget proposed by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). But a comparison of the president's own plans for Medicare with those in the Ryan budget shows that the Democratic cuts are far more immediate and drastic than anything in the GOP proposal. While the Republican Medicare changes only take effect in 2021, Obama's cuts will begin hurting seniors right away. The president's healthcare legislation imposed a hard spending cap on Medicare -- the first time it has ever had one -- which...

The shape of the 2008 presidential sweepstakes is gradually becoming clearer through the fog of war. There is a surprising and artful symmetry in how each party’s contest is shaping up. Both parties have clear front-runners — Hillary Clinton and John McCain — around whom the race will be formed. In each party there is a looming presence whose entry into the race could change it completely. And there is an assortment of ideologically more extreme contenders who are trying to break through and challenge the front-runner.In the Republican primaries, McCain runs far ahead of all other contenders. But the...

Gingrich: I was wrong to endorse Scozzafava By Eric Zimmermann - 02/01/10 03:42 PM ET Newt Gingrich says he regrets endorsing Dede Scozzafava in the hotly contested primary for the NY-23 congressional district in November. Scozzafava was criticized by many national Republicans for being too liberal. She eventually dropped out of the race and endorsed Democrat Bill Owens, who eeked out a victory. "She turned out to be a huge disappointment, and she turned out not to be frankly a loyal Republican," Gingrich told an interviewer in New Hampshire this weekend. The former speaker added that conservatives who criticized his...

John Boehner has just given away the Republican victory of 2010 at the bargaining table. Like the proverbial Uncle Sam who always wins the war but loses the peace, he has unilaterally disarmed the Republican Party by showing that he will not shut down the government and will, instead, willingly give way on even the most modest of cuts in order to avoid it. He now has no arrows left in his quiver. Having failed to stand firm for just $61 billion in cuts in a budget of $3.7 trillion, how can we expect him to stand firm over the...

So what happens if the cuts proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) prove unacceptable to the Senate and the president? What if there is no compromise? What if nobody gives in? A budget deadlock, played out over months, will doom Obama and assure his defeat. But an easily won compromise will help him get re-elected. The central question in Obama's bid for a second term is: Will the issues that doomed his party in 2010 still be the key questions in 2012? If they are, we already know how...

John Boehner has just given away the Republican victory of 2010 at the bargaining table. Having failed to stand firm for just $61 billion in a budget of $3.7 trillion, how can we expect him to stand firm over the debt limit extension or the 2012 budget? We can't. The excellent budget proposals of Paul Ryan are no more than a pipe dream now. It violates our campaign promises to the American people. We promised $100 billion of cuts and we delivered $38 billion. Obamacare will not be defunded; welfare spending will not be cut nor work requirements imposed; the...

Morris: "I want a cut of $61 billion. I want the Republicans in Congress to keep the campaign commitment to the American people of a $100 billion cut. And I'm shocked at your interview with Congresswoman Bachmann. She was saying, 'Oh, there's going to be a deal, they'll come together, there'll be a compromise'. Well a compromise that is less than $61 is BREAKING THE PROMISE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. And, above all....

General Colin Powell said about invading Iraq and toppling Saddam "if you break it, you own it." This motto, adopted from Pottery Barn, will come back to haunt Obama. By attacking Gadaffi, backing the revolt in Egypt, opposing oil drilling, and weakening our defenses against terror, he has inherited responsibility in each of these spheres should something go wrong. Video at link.

The combination of high oil and gasoline prices, rising food costs, higher health insurance premiums and the likelihood of future inflation has jarred consumer confidence, creating a major crisis for the Obama administration. The collapse has been sudden and dramatic. In December, the consumer confidence scale in the Rasmussen Poll stood at 81.7 percent. But in January, euphoria set in. Obama compromised on the George W. Bush tax cuts, the nation seemed to be coming together after the Giffords shooting and a Republican House sat poised to stop any new spending or social experimentation. On Jan. 11, the Rasmussen confidence...

Dick Morris Calls Ron Paul "Horrific", Hangs Up On Peter Schiff (Audio at YouTube)

OBAMA'S LEGACY: STAGFLATION By DICK MORRIS Published on TheHill.com on March 1, 2011 Obama's failure to support America's allies in the Middle East and his dithering endorsement of chaos in the region will send oil and gasoline prices skyrocketing, triggering a massive bout of stagflation. This vicious cycle of rising prices, decreased consumption, and ever higher prices (as vendors seek to recover higher fixed costs) will cripple the American economy for years to come. This is Obama's true legacy. Consider what he has done to push up oil and gas prices: • Endorsed spreading chaos in the Middle East. •...