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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 President 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 did Obama ever think that his program would pass constitutional muster? How could he imagine that the Interstate Commerce clause could cover something that wasn't interstate (health insurance cannot be sold over state lines) and wasn't commerce (failure to buy insurance is not commerce) would stand up in court? He was so sure that he would win any constitutional challenge that he arrogantly failed to put a severability clause in the bill so that it would survive even if parts were stricken down. The decision of the Florida District Court may or may not prevail in the Circuit Court....

In the 1950s, the accusation “who lost China” resonated throughout American politics and led to the defeat of the Democratic Party in the presidential elections of 1952. Unless President Obama reverses field and strongly opposes letting the Muslim Brotherhood take over Egypt, he will be hit with the modern equivalent of the 1952 question: Who Lost Egypt? The Iranian government is waiting for Egypt to fall into its lap. The Muslim Brotherhood, dominated by Iranian Islamic fundamentalism, will doubtless emerge as the winner should the government of Egypt fall. The Obama Administration, in failing to throw its weight against an...

In the 1950s, the accusation "who lost China" resonated throughout American politics and led to the defeat of the Democratic Party in the presidential elections of 1952. Unless President Obama reverses field and strongly opposes letting the Muslim brotherhood take over Egypt, he will be hit with the modern equivalent of the 1952 question: Who Lost Egypt? The Iranian government is waiting for Egypt to fall into its lap. The Muslim Brotherhood, dominated by Iranian Islamic fundamentalism, will doubtless emerge as the winner should the government of Egypt fall. The Obama Administration, in failing to throw its weight against an...

Facing huge budget difficulties, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been showing other states how to survive — namely, by taking on the government-employee unions. Christie’s battles with the teachers unions over the past year have produced countless YouTube hits. And last month, he got a law passed to limit wage hikes from labor arbitrations between the state and public-employee unions to an average 2 percent annual increase. As New Jersey, New York, California and Illinois — the four with the highest insurance premiums on their bonds — face life without a compliant Congress to approve their pleas for more...

On my radio show on Wednesday, January 19, Dick Morris flatly declared that Mitt Romney could not win the Republican nomination for president because of the health care plan Romney guided into law in Massachusetts in 2005. On the same day my friend and superb political analyst John Hinderaker of Powerline fame declared that it was over for Sarah Palin. “The time has come to put any thoughts of Sarah Palin running for President to rest,” John wrote.

Dick Morris: The left is able to play Sarah Palin like a fiddle. The pile-on on Palin continues as now, even prominent Republicans like Dick Morris are chiming in with their two cents on Palin’s handling of the inapplicable criticism she received from the left after the Arizona shooting. In an interview, Morris was asked to analyze why the former governor’s poll numbers have fallen in a round of recent, new polls, and his answer is seemingly to blame Palin for her response to the criticism. In Morris’ viewpoint, Palin is actually to blame for her falling numbers, not the...

With the new Republican power in Washington, it is doubly important to keep a close eye on the doings of GOP Senators and Congressmen to spot those who are straying from orthodoxy, seduced by power and the insider clubiness that characterizes Washington. In the Lame Duck session, we want to draw attention to six Republican U.S. Senators who voted with the Democrats on a key issue. We should all bear their apostasy in mind and, in particular, make them mindful of the possibility of primary challenges to their re-nomination. Two Senators, in particular, deserve to have primary challengers take them...

Moving to the center is not a two-dimensional process. It has a third dimension -- the difference between strength and weakness. In the course of coming in from the cold of his extreme far-left positions, the president looks like a wimp, abandoning his long-held views in the face of electoral defeats, adverse court rulings, recalcitrant Democrats and strong, united Republican opposition. And wimps don't win. When Bill Clinton moved to the center, he arrived in triumph. After vanquishing the Republican Congress during the government shutdown of 1995-1996, he agreed to a balanced budget deal with Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott....

I like Dick Morris though I can’t say I always agree with him, and Monday was one of those times.  Morris wrote: The short list of contenders for the nomination will not be chosen in the early primaries. Iowa and New Hampshire will not impose their will on America. America will impose its will on Iowa and New Hampshire. The quarter finals will not be waged in the cornfields of Iowa or the former mill towns of New Hampshire. They will be held in the living rooms of America among the Fox News audience! Morris cites Fox News’ growing audience,...

It took the Democrats two election cycles — 2006 and 2008 — to secure their overwhelming Congressional majorities and to recapture the White House. The Republican Party will likely complete its takeover in 2012. This model is far more likely than the 1995-96 model in which Bill Clinton came back from the dead. In the Senate, there are many attractive targets for Republican attack, Senators who come from states where the GOP scored significant gains in the 2010 elections. They include: Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico – Republicans won the governorship and a key House seat here. Sherrod Brown, Ohio –...

Dear Friend, I wanted, first of all, to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your massive support and the outpouring of funds and interest to back up my efforts on behalf of Super PAC for America. We have succeeded amazingly. As background, I divided my efforts into two categories: there were races where I was personally involved advising the campaigns and working to help them raise money. There were others in which Super PAC was involved in independent efforts. I had no personal involvement in those races and was, therefore, able to raise funds for Super PAC...

Dick Morris advertisd that on election night he would release an update on his website every 15 minutes. His site says he will comment "several times an hour". Here we are with close races in Washington and Colorado, an interesting Alaska result developing, and where is Dick? It's 1:50 AM and his last election update was at 11:55 PM. Should we be worried about him, or does he just consider "election night" to end at midnight? He was sounding more tired toward the end.

Dear Fellow American: Over the last couple of years, America has been bruised and battered. Our $13.5 trillion federal deficit has pushed our nation to the verge of bankruptcy. Obamacare has threatened our right to live a long and healthy life. And the end of the Bush tax cuts, combined with drastic federal and state tax hikes, have put your wealth and retirement savings at risk. Barack Obama's liberal agenda and "Big Government" initiatives are directly attacking the freedom, safety, and prosperity of every American. But now is not the time to give up. Now is the time to stand...

Veteran political analyst and best-selling author Dick Morris tells Newsmax that Republicans have a huge enthusiasm edge over Democrats as Election Day approaches and the GOP can win as many as 100 House seats on Nov. 2. He also says Republicans’ chances of gaining the 10 seats they need to take control of the Senate hinge on close races in California and Washington. In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, Morris expresses confidence in a strong GOP showing in the midterm elections. “I think the ground game is overwhelmingly in favor of Republicans,” he says. “The enthusiasm levels are so much...

The Cook Political Report (which is the best there is, but tends to run a little behind) lists 23 Democratic House seats as now likely or leaning Republican. We will win all of those. And it lists 47 seats now held by Democrats as tossup. I am working in about half of these districts and I believe we will win virtually all of these seats. That makes 70. Then, he lists 46 Democratic seats as leaning or likely Democrat but not solidly so. That's where we need to concentrate our fire. My organization, SuperPacUSA.com is targeting 24 seats from this...

Here is video of political consultant Dick Morris on with Bill O’Reilly tonight, where he discussed his predictions for the U.S. Senate races in the upcoming Midterm Elections. He started talking with O’Reilly about the Senate at around the 2:40 mark of the video. Morris still believes the Republicans we get the 10-seat net gain needed to retake control of the U.S. Senate. Morris said that California will be a “50-50 vote,” meaning it will be “Thursday” before we know who wins between Fiorina and Boxer. He gives a slight edge right now to Patty Murray in Washington over Rossi,...

I am working directly in all of the races listed below (for free). They are all Republican House candidates running in Democratic districts. They all have a very good chance to win but very little money. Most have only recently come on the radar screen of the national GOP leadership and have not gotten the funding they need or could well use. But, before you go down the list, please donate to SuperPacUSA.com......

Here is video of political strategist Dick Morris speaking to an Orlando Tea Party gathering, where he said bluntly he opposes Mitt Romney for the 2012 GOP Nomination because of the RomneyCare legislation he signed as Governor of Massachusetts. Morris said he believes the number one objective must be to defund the ObamaCare “monstrosity,” and Republicans need a nominee who can carry that banner.

Spending my day at a TEA party rally reminded me of why we are on our way to a big victory next month. Here’s some of what I heard and saw. “Raise your trajectory; hit 100%,” Dick Morris exhorted his SRO Tea Party audience in Orlando this past week. Republicans could take 80% to 100% of the Senate, the famous conservative political strategist told the West Orlando Tea Party. “Conservatives captured the American street,” he told his huge audience. Meeting planners who expected a turnout of 300 were overwhelmed and had to add many extra seats, but listeners still lined...