June 25, 2009
How to Stand Up to Iran (Dick Morris)
In our new book, Catastrophe, we spell out clearly how Obama has disarmed us in the war on terror and excoriate him for giving Hamas almost $1 billion in foreign aid funneled through the United Nations relief agency in Gaza that takes orders from Hamas. But now, the administration’s weakness in supporting human rights in Iran writes a sad chapter in the history of our foreign policy.
For her part, Hillary Clinton is really playing hardball with Iran! Faced with its outrageous conduct in killing its own citizens to cow them into silence, she has disinvited Iranian diplomats from the hot dog festival commemorating July 4. That’ll show ’em. > Read More
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What's This June 19, 2009
Healthcare Proposal a Travesty (Dick Morris)
Ezra Klein, in The Washington Post, details the proposed cutbacks in the healthcare reform bill that have been made in committee to reduce its cost. The result is that the package has gone from bloated to fraudulent. It no longer covers the uninsured.
Under the new plan, everybody would have to buy health insurance but subsidies would only be available to families making less than three times the poverty level. That's about $50,000 or so for a typical household (depending on how many children). So what does this bill mean for families making, say, $60,000? It would mean no subsidies but a requirement that they spend about $4,000 or so a year on health insurance. It’s essentially an extra tax. > Read More
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What's This June 9, 2009
Obama’s Mortgage Rescue Plan is Failing (Dick Morris)
The data for April and May prove that Obama’s plan to rescue those facing mortgage foreclosure is a dismal failure. Since this issue was the cornerstone of his economic program during the campaign, its abject failure is a significant setback for the administration’s economic plan.
In the month ending on May 26, there were 464,983 foreclosures of sub-prime and Alt-A mortgages (out of a universe of 3.2 million studied). So 15 percent of all sub-prime mortgages were foreclosed in May! Only 19,041 — a paltry 6 percent — were modified during this period. And of those modified, only 11,200 involved any reduction in the monthly payments! Only 12 percent involved any write-off of interest, fees or principal, and 27 percent of the loan modifications actually increased the monthly payments due. > Read More
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What's This June 4, 2009
Here Comes Healthcare Rationing (Dick Morris)
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
The photo-op was too good to be true. Healthcare providers trooped out of the White House and trumpeted their goal of saving $1.7 trillion in costs over the next decade in health spending. Now these drug companies, hospitals, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers, labor unions and doctors have laid out their plans in more detail. > Read More
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What's This June 2, 2009
The Real Genuflection to the Saudis (Dick Morris)
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
When President Obama first met the Saudi royals, he seemed to bow at the waist. Either that or he doubled over in pain. Did he bow? Or didn’t he? was the topic du jour at the press briefing that day.
But now we have the answer: Obama is, indeed, really bowing to the Saudis as he visits the Middle East this week. > Read More
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What's This May 28, 2009
North Korea: The Whole World is Watching (Dick Morris)
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
When the Japanese military invaded Manchuria in the early 1930s, Hitler, Mussolini and Japan’s own government watched nervously to see what the League of Nations and the Western powers would do. Now it is North Korea and Iran who are watching and wondering.
If the United Nations, and the powers it represents, is as impotent as was the League in the 1930s, it will send the same signal to other would-be proliferators: that the rest of the world will sit by and do nothing. By so blatantly flouting international opinion and U.N. resolutions, North Korea has essentially said to the rest of the world: “Put up or shut up.” > Read More
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What's This May 18, 2009
When Will Obama Own the Recession? (Dick Morris)
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
When will the economy stop dropping because of the recession and start dropping because of the harm Obama’s cure to the recession is inflicting?
There will likely be a seam that will run through the polling and recession statistics in the next few months, when the symptoms of the disease abate and those triggered by Obama’s program begin to kick in. In short, when will the Bush recession become the Obama recession? In fact, it may already have happened. > Read More
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What's This May 13, 2009
GOP Strong on Economy (Dick Morris)
How interesting that the latest Rasmussen poll shows the two parties tied on the issue of who can best handle the economy at the same time that Obama gets at 56 percent job approval rating.
Only 44 percent feel that the Democrats are best at handling the economy (as opposed to 43 percent for the Republicans). So about 13 points’ worth of voters approve of Obama but doubt his party's ability to handle the economy.
This indicates that a drop in his approval ratings down to the mid-40s is in the cards.
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What's This March 17, 2009
GOP Takes Lead in Generic Ballot (Dick Morris)
The latest Rasmussen poll shows a Republican lead in the generic congressional ballot for the first time since at least April of 2007. These surveys, conducted weekly, have consistently shown a strong Democratic lead. Now the Dems have lost their lead thanks to the socialist policies of their misguided president.
To Republicans who wonder if America has a future, there is a message: We are a democracy, and in 2010, we can turn this mess around!
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What's This March 6, 2009
Pelosi Would Muzzle Talk Radio (Dick Morris)
Just as Eileen McGann and I predicted in our book, Fleeced, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is pushing an amendment in Congress that would require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership and to ensure that broadcast station licenses are used in the public interest," according to CBS news.
This measure is far more dangerous than the Fairness Doctrine, since it goes not only to programming but to the personnel a station employs, the members of its board and its ownership structure. Pelosi is trying not to muzzle talk radio but to take it over!
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