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Parker Griffith's decision to step out of line and refuse to drink the Democratic Kool-Aid illustrates the Achilles Heel of the Democratic regime in Washington: The radical reign of Pelosi and Reid is held up by pillars of moderate and conservative Democrats who come from districts that regularly vote Republican. To survive in these red precincts, Democrats must act like Republicans, advocating a balanced budget, opposing big spending, and fighting against socialized medicine. But, in Washington, Pelosi and Reid use their backing to bring a radical left leadership to Congress. Once it sufficed for a moderate Democrat merely to vote...

Here is video of Dick Morris on "The O'Reilly Factor" last night where he discussed the sleazy tactics used by Democrats to essentially buy off the votes of Sen. Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, and others to gain their support for the Senate Health Care Bill. Morris said it is likely the worst of the payoffs are not even known as of yet. No one knows what may have been promised for their support. He said what has happened has "debunked the myth of the moderate Democrat." Morris essentially said that a vote for any Democrat is a vote for the...

Morris points out that there are 81 Dems in Congress that are in Districts carried by John McCain in 2008..(Video)

Here is video of Mark Steyn (sitting in for Sean Hannity) talking with Dick Morris about the Democrats' push to pass their Senate Health Care Bill. Steyn talked with Morris about Sen. Shedon Whitehouse attacking opponents of ObamaCare. Morris described the cuts in Medicare the bill would cause, and the increased taxes that would fall on Americans. He also said the bill would result in a rationing of procedures, particularly for the elderly. Morris said the impact of this legislation will be the "death-knell" of the Democrats' chances to hold onto Congress in 2010. Steyn pointed out that he does...

A detailed analysis of the Obama health care program now before the Senate indicates that it will force big premium increases for all families, especially for those under 30 years of age. The study, by the consulting firm of Oliver Wyman, concludes that premiums for individuals will rise by $1,576 and $3,341 for families by under the bill. Young people will be hit the hardest. The study predicted that premiums for new health insurance policies purchased by the youngest third of the population would rise by 35 percent under the bill. These increases will stem from the bill's provisions that...

Here is video of Dick Morris talking with Sean Hannity last night where he continued to say that the Republican Party will win back both houses of Congress in the 2010 mid-term election. Morris said there is a "Tsunami" coming, just as there was in 1994 when the GOP swept to power in Congress when Bill Clinton was President. He makes the comments at the end of the segment. Earlier in the segment, the discuss Obama's falling poll numbers, with Morris pointing out that at the end of Bill Clinton's first year (1993), he had an approval rating of 56%,...

YouTube video that Dick Morris has been running in several states. He mentioned it on last night's Hannity.

A civil war is breaking out within the left of the Democratic Party pitting the Congressional Black Caucus against the first African-American president. The battle began when California Rep. Maxine Waters complained publicly about the administration's failure to do more to help minority-owned businesses in the current recession. (Translation: In the new stimulus of "jobs" bill making its way through Congress, they want a larger take.) It continued yesterday when 10 members of the Black Caucus refused to participate in a meeting of the House Banking Committee that was considering the bill to restructure financial regulations, forcing Chairman Barney Frank...

While the smoke rises from the Capitol building where the health care debate proceeds, Obama is losing his political base on the left. His decision to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan, an odd move for a peace candidate, his failure to close Guantanamo, our continued military presence in Iraq, and his failure to act on liberal priorities like gays in the military and immigration reform are all sapping his support from those who voted for him. And, even in the health care debate, the under-30 voters are learning that they are targeted -- just like the elderly -- for...

Until recently, this political epitaph might have been written for Dick Morris: An amoral, but brilliant consultant, strategist, and analyst -- the man who kept Bill Clinton in, and Hillary Clinton out, of the White House. By selling the strategy of triangulation to Bill Clinton, Morris successfully neutered the Gingrich revolution of 1994. But he also neutered the worst political impulses of Bill Clinton (Morris couldn't do anything about the sexual ones) and forced Clinton to work with the Republican congress to balance budgets and reform welfare. But Dick Morris is doing his best work now in his crusade against...

Here is video of Dick Morris tonight on Hannity where he said he is ready to predict that Republicans will retake control of BOTH Houses of Congress in the 2010 Elections. Morris says this beginning at the 5:53 mark of the video. Morris names the seats he believes the GOP will take in the Senate: Six fairly easy pickups according to Morris - Dodd in Connecticut, Delaware, Reid in Nevada, Lincoln in Arkansas, Specter in Pennsylvania, and Colorado. He believes the Governor of North Dakota could run and beat Dorgan, and that Rudy Giuliani can run and beat Gillibrand in...

Doctor Shortage by Dick Morris Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors’ group in the country — confirms that “the supply of doctors just won’t be there” for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is “already a catastrophic crisis,” Stubbs noted that underserved areas in the U.S. currently need almost 17,000 new primary care physicians even before Obama’s proposals are enacted. In the meantime, according to Bloomberg News, a 2009 survey by Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a recruiting and research firm in Irving, Texas,...

The Obama administration has a clear agenda here: 1) Stop people from focusing in how his administration permitted the worst domestic terror attack in eight years. 2) Avoid a national airing of how liberal policies — restraints on the intelligence community, political correctness in the armed forces — might have inhibited the military from reining in Hasan. 3) Re-ignite a firestorm on the left and abroad against the aggressive anti-terror policies of the Bush administration. Making all this particularly important for Obama are his other political needs. As he likely decides to send more troops to Afghanistan and eyes abandoning...

President Obama’s decision to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in New York City along with four others accused of helping destroy the World Trade Center and attack the Pentagon on 9-11 paints a bull’s-eye for terrorists right on New York City, their favorite target. Now Obama has identified where the terrorists should focus their energies — on New York City.

In his nationally televised remarks following the horrendous killings at Ft. Hood, President Obama never mentioned the T word. The attack was an act “of violence.” No mention of terrorism. In fact, the Ft. Hood shooting is the first terror attack on American soil since 9-11. But Obama, reluctant to take the rap for inadequate protections against such attacks, is doing everything he can to make it look like an adult version of the Columbine school shootings. We are treated to stories about the killer’s dread of being sent back to Afghanistan and his deformed personality. But, the fact is...

By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the ’09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these — and the other endorsements — his package has received are all bought and paid for. Here are the deals:

As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the ’09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these — and the other endorsements — his package has received are all bought and paid for. Here are the deals: · The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a 21 percent cut in physicians’ reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the cut if they backed his bill. The cuts are the fruit of a law requiring annual 5-6...

As Santayana said, "Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it." Congressional Democrats take note! Are the elections of 2009 precursors of the same kind of massive partisan upheaval in Congress that we experienced in 1994? The historical data says yes, they are. In Virginia, the outcomes in 1993 and 2009 were almost identical. In 1993, after the Democratic incumbent, Doug Wilder, could not seek re-election, the governor's race pitted Republican George Allen against Democrat Mary Sue Terry. Allen won handily, 58 to 41 — virtually the same margin by which McDonnell defeated Deeds this week. And...

Here is video of Dick Morris talking with Sean Hannity last night, where he said the White House has launched their assault on Fox News because they know a large segment of their audience is comprised of Democrats and Independents. Morris said if Fox News only had Republicans, they would not care. Morris says 46% of all Independents watch Fox News several times a week, and 17% of Democrats do. He also said 20% of all Americans watch Fox News every night. Morris also said the elderly oppose Obama's Health Care Plan by 2 to 1. Younger people support it...

Here is video of Dick Morris talking with Sean Hannity about President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Morris started out by saying they had to give him the "Nobel Peace Prize" because they could not give it to him for "Economics!" He said this is Europe's attempt to "recolonize the United States," because they are seeking to encourage a liberal policy that weakens the United States. Morris also believes Obama delayed his decision on more troops for Afghanistan because he was hoping to get the Nobel Prize. Morris and Hannity also discussed the state of the Health Care Debate....

Dick Morris discusses how the United States, at the G20 conference, put itself under the guidance and, ultimately, control of the International Monetary Fund even as it succeeded in turning more power in that organization over to debtor nations. The Declaration of Independence is being repealed before our eyes.

Among the $500 billion in Medicare cuts that will provide the bulk of the financing for Obama's health care plan is a $160 billion to $180 billion cut in the Medicare Advantage program, which offers a range of benefits not available to beneficiaries under basic Medicare. Medicare Advantage should be Obama's favorite program. It combines all the elements he likes -- premiums are subsidized for low-income elderly, and the companies negotiate low-priced, managed care that emphasizes prevention, treatment of chronic conditions and coordination among doctors. As a result, its costs on the one hand and its premiums on the other...

Here is video of Dick Morris "On the Record" with Greta van Susteren tonight to discuss Congress and the way Americans feel about the Health Care Bill. They cited a poll that says only 22% of Americans believe Congress even understands the bill. Dick Morris actually said the electorate is "moving to the right," even as Obama is "moving to the Left." Morris said that is because as the "country turns him down," he has to please his party even more to get every vote he can from them in order to pass his agenda. . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of Dick Morris talking to Bill O'Reilly last night, where he said the influence of the Far-Left in the White House is "great and growing." Morris called the influence of the radical left a "progressive disease" that gets increasingly worse. He said Obama is falling prey to the temptation to control things with his own party as his support among the center dwindles. Morris said what Obama is doing is very similar to what Clinton did in his first two years, which resulted in a disaster for Democrats in the 1994 mid-term election. Only then did Bill...

Liberals like to style themselves as being above ageism, lookism, sexism and judgementalism when it comes to sexual predilections. But in one fell show, Ed Schultz managed to indulge in all of the above. On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz mocked: * 85-year old Phyllis Schlafly for her looks; * Dick Morris for the way he got his kicks; and * Liz Cheney as her "daddy's little girl." View video here.

While concluding a segment on racism involved in anti-Obama protests, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews promoted the book of one of his guests, liberal historian Douglas Brinkley, and proceeded to rant: "There’s so much right-wing crap on the best seller list these days. It’s great to see a book that you might want to put on your shelf and let your respected friends see you actually reading." Brinkley’s book, Teddy Roosevelt: The Wilderness Warrior, did make the New York Times best seller list, coming in at twenty one. However, the list’s top ten was dominated by "right-wing crap." Michelle Malkin’s...

As any good Persian rug dealer knows, you have to hold back a bargaining chit so that you can whip it out at the very end to tie down the sale. That’s how Obama is playing the so-called public option in his health care program. His plan seems to be to combine its abandonment with some form of tort reform and try to buy off some Republicans - maybe only Maine’s Olympia Snowe - to give moderate Democrats enough confidence in the veneer of bi-partisanship to win their backing for his bill. But it’s a fraud and a trick. Here’s...

Here is video of Dick Morris on with Sean Hannity last night where he slapped down Obama Chief adviser David Axelrod. Morris said over the weekend, Axelrod was asked about Dick Morris's contention that if you add 47 million people (or 30 million or whatever the White House number is today) to the Health Care system all at once, you will have a shortage of doctors. Axelrod responded, "What Medical School did Morris go to?" Dick Morris said he wanted to respond to his "former employee" David Axelrod. He said: "David, it's not a matter of Med School - it's...

The polls this week are a disaster for Barack Obama. Scott Rasmussen has his approval dropping to 45 percent, after several weeks at 49 percent. John Zogby has it even lower — at 42 percent. Beneath the superficial data lies even worse news for the president. Not only is he losing support, but he is losing his political base. Young people — under 30 — long a key element of his support, give him no better than break-even ratings with 41 percent approving and 41 percent disapproving of the job he is doing according to Zogby. And only 75 percent...

Here is video of Dick Morris tonight telling Sean Hannity that as President, Barack Obama is "totally inept." He made the statement in response to a question from Hannity on how Obama has done. Morris added the word "catastrophe" to describe how Obama is doing politically. . . . (Watch Video)

After vowing not to become involved in recriminations over the Bush anti-terror policies, President Obama has allowed his Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to dig up all the dirt he can find on the CIA and the anti-terror investigators whose aggressive questioning saved us from countless attacks. Why the switch? Because Obama needs to do something to appease the left that elected him. After refusing to pull out of Iraq and deciding to follow the Bush timetable for withdrawing and staying in Afghanistan and likely having to beef up our presence there, liberals might be wondering...

Last night, former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris joined Sean Hannity to discuss breaking news that both unemployment and the budget deficit were trending higher than forecast earlier by the Obama White House. Morris called the news "a disaster for the Democrats." Hannity balked when Morris made the startling prediction that, given these developments, along with a looming "double dip" recession, "you could see one hundred seats changing" from Democrat to Republican in the next election.

Here is video of Hannity and Dick Morris discussing the media being silent when it comes to Obama's vacation, they weren't so silent when Bush went on vacation. They also discussed Obama and the Democrats falling approval ratings. (Watch Video)

On the Hannity show, Dick Morris just said he thinks the Democrats will lose as many as 100 seats in 2010. Hannity was so shocked that he audibly gasped.

Having stuck his neck out — through trial balloons suggesting a possible abandonment of the public option — President Obama is now retreating into Ft. Democrat and relying on his own party members to jam through health care legislation. With 60 Senators and a 76 vote margin in the House, he need not compromise or even listen to Republicans. He can invoke the so-called “nuclear option” and pass his bill in the Senate with just 50 votes and no possibility of real debate, much less a filibuster. So no matter how low Obama’s plan sinks in the polls, he feels...

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Here is video of political analyst Dick Morris on The O'Reilly Factor last night where he said some of President Obama's "core support" is now fleeing him. Morris's analysis is preceded by Bill O'Reilly's "Talking Points" segment, focusing on Barney Frank and his Town Hall Meeting. A primary group of support for Obama and the Democrats has been the elderly, who are no fleeing him because they are terrified of the impact ObamaCare will have on Medicare and on their health care. Their personal security, they feel, is being threatened. O'Reilly said he believes whenever the Democrats talk down to...

WASHINGTON is all atwit ter about "death panels": President Obama derides the idea that his health-care reform calls for them; the Senate is stripping "end of life" counseling language from its bill -- and last Friday the voice of the liberal establishment, The New York Times, ran a Page One story "rebutting" the rumor that ObamaCare would create such boards to decide when to pull the plug on elderly patients. But all those protests miss the fundamental truth of the "death panel" charge. Even without a federal board voting on whom to kill, ObamaCare will ration care extensively, leading to...

The New York Times is generally loathe to dignify conservative-leaning books with an official review. That stance is getting dicier these days, especially since the newspaper’s own nonfiction bestseller chart is chockablock with conservatives luminaries like Michelle Malkin, Dick Morris and Mark Levin. President Barack Obama has only been in office for roughly eight months, but he’s already inspired multiple conservative bestsellers. Malkin’s Culture of Corruption sits atop the list, followed by Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny in the two slot and Catastrophe by Morris and Eileen McGann at number four. Marji Ross, president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, isn’t surprised...

This was an eMail...I assume it will show up on the blog at some point....**************************EXCERPT*********************We are told they are working behind the scenes to change long-standing Senate rules so that they can pass their health plan with just 50 votes!This is again a desperate measure and an attempt to subvert our democratic and constitutional system. I can assure you the League of American Voters is working day and night to stop Obama's plan.

The Democratic Party is built on six pillars -- blacks, Latinos, single women, young people, union members and the elderly. If legislation threatens one of those pillars, it threatens the stability of the entire partisan structure. And Obama's health-care reform seems to do just that. With 40 percent of the savings in medical spending coming from Medicare, the senior citizens of America are coming to see the Obama proposals as an assault on their health-care system. Since their needs are fully met by Medicare, they see no need for monkeying with the system and are highly suspicious of any changes....

The only part of the stimulus program that is working, the cash-for-clunkers program is, in reality, a subsidy to foreign car companies, proving that Barack Obama is the best president Japan ever had. The Department of Transportation reports that the ten leading trade-ins are all American branded cars while six of the top ten new cars purchased - and four of the top five - are foreign. So the United States Senate is about to pass additional funds to subsidize the trade-in of American cars and the purchase of foreign cars. DOT reports that the following are the ten top...

Jewish Democrats strongly agree with the Israeli position and disagree with President Barack Obama's on issues such as a Palestinian state, settlement construction, and trading land for peace. Does the president realize he's at risk of a break with an important part of his base? A phone survey (sponsored by the Traditional Values Coalition and conducted by Global Marketing Research Services on July 22-24) of 500 American Jews who self-identified as Democrats exposes broad disagreement with Obama's Middle East policies. Asked to choose between the Obama view that "if Israel could settle its dispute with the Palestinian refugees and give...

Here is video of Dick Morris talking with Greta about ObamaCare and the town hall protesters.....(Watch Video)

Was it only a week ago this past Sunday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the North Koreans "unruly children" on "Meet the Press" and said all they wanted was attention and that "we shouldn't give it to them"? Yes, that was Hillary. The wife of the same Bill Clinton who gave Kim Jung Il 10 years' worth of free good publicity by traveling to North Korea and shining the global spotlight on the "Dear Leader's" generosity in releasing two journalists, whom Jung had illegally seized in the first place. North Korea's last good press was before 1949, but...

Here is video of Dick Morris tonight on The O'Reilly Factor and talking about President Obama's drive to get Government Health Care passed. O'Reilly asked Morris to compare the ObamaCare drive to the HillaryCare debacle in 1994, when President Bill Clinton failed to get Government Health Care passed. One big difference, Morris pointed out, is that Obama has this time bought off all the major players - AARP, Drug Companies, American Medical Association. O'Reilly pointed out that Obama has been stupefyingly dull in his presentation of his Health Care Plan. When asked if Obama is going to succeed, or will...

Buried amid its astonishing annual growth rate, even in the recession, is the sad story of China's socialist sector, a huge and perennial drag on its economy. The failure of government control amid the success of private initiative is a story that President Barack Obama would do well to study as he brings government control and management to the automobile and banking industries in the United States. In China, 80 percent of all investment activity comes from bank loans largely controlled by the government — a harbinger of what Obama will bring to the United States as TARP-funded banks increasingly...

Superficially, the United States appears to have a presidential system, but in fact it more and more resembles a parliamentary form of government. When a president loses the approval of the majority of the voters and polls reflect that his ratings have fallen substantially below 50 percent, he loses his power. In this context, polls are like parliamentary votes of no confidence in European systems. While the government does not fall if it loses in the polling, it limps on until either its ratings improve or it is voted out of office at the next election. President Bill Clinton was...

PRESIDENT Obama's rhetoric last night summoned the memory of "1984," George Orwell's novel of a nightmarish future -- where the slogan of the rulers is "War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength." The president assures us that he will cut health-care spending . . . by adding $1 trillion to health-care spending. He says that "health-care decisions will not be made by government" . . . while he sets up a new Federal Health Board to tell doctors what treatments they can offer and to whom and under what circumstances. Obama told the media, "I will free doctors...

Here is video of political consultant Dick Morris on The O'Reilly Factor tonight, where he talked about what Obama's Government Health Plan would do in the life of the average family. They talked about the fact that under ObamaCare, everyone's health records would necessarily be available to a national health board in Washington, D.C. so that decisions could be made as to what treatements a patient could receive. That would obviously increase red tape and lead to huge delays in the delivery of care as the decision was made. It takes the decision away from the doctor and puts it...