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Dick Morris
Morris, a former political adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of "Outrage." To get all of Dick Morris’s and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by email, go to www.dickmorris.com.Subscribe to Dick Morris RSS Article Feed.
Recent Articles
- The New Two-Party System - January 6, 2010
- The very public way in which the existence of a center-right in the Democratic Party proved to be a mirage has done more to undermine the party's chances for victory in...
- The Charge of the 280 Dems - December 9, 2009
- Let's first channel Alfred, Lord Tennyson from his poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade": Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of...
- Rationing, Waiting Lists, Lower-Quality Care - November 7, 2009
- After more than a decade of public healthcare with mandatory coverage, so many Canadian doctors have left the practice and so many young people have entered other fields...
- A Deathblow For ObamaCare - New York Post - November 4, 2009
- Chris Christie’s gutsy win in New Jersey puts the arrogant big spender Jon Corzine in his place. But it is the election in Virginia that probably has more to say...
- Reid's Bait-and-Switch Tactics - October 28, 2009
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had two problems. How would he get the healthcare bill out of the Senate Finance Committee without revealing the glaring...
- High Price of ObamaCare - October 14, 2009
- Will a young, healthy, childless individual or couple buy health insurance costing 7.5 percent of their income, as required by Obama's health legislation? Not until they...
- Snowe and Lincoln Will Determine Everything - October 7, 2009
- Watch how Maine Republican Olympia Snowe and Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln vote in the Senate Finance Committee on the Baucus version of the Obama healthcare plan....
- Elderly Moving Against ObamaCare - September 29, 2009
- America's elderly are finally realizing that Obama's healthcare changes are largely financed by cuts in Medicare and are rallying against his proposals in increasing...
- ObamaCare: Taxes for Everyone - September 23, 2009
- Now that the various healthcare plans are being reduced to print, the financial details are emerging and with them a fundamental conclusion is becoming evident: The...
- Obama's Unhealthy Speech - September 16, 2009
- In his healthcare speech to Congress, President Obama failed to spend even a moment rebutting the central critique of his program: his inability to provide quality...
- Democrats Losing Seniors - September 9, 2009
- Nowhere is the fallout from Obama's healthcare proposals more evident than among the elderly, and nothing is more dangerous permanently for the Democratic Party than...
- Obama's Shifty Economics - July 16, 2009
- Now President Obama says in The Washington Post that he never envisioned that his stimulus package would afford quick relief to the American economy, but would do so...
- GOP: Stand Your Ground - July 1, 2009
- Only the Senate and House Republicans can save Obama now by compromising and lending his extremist legislation the veneer of bipartisanship in order to remove it as a...
- Obama's Weakness Issue - June 24, 2009
- If only President Obama were a third as tough on Iran and North Korea as he is on Republicans, he'd be making progress in containing the dire threats to our national...
- Obama's Issues Crumbling - June 13, 2009
- At last, there is convincing evidence that Obama's poll numbers may be descending to earth. While his approval remains high - and his personal favorability is even...
- What's Keeping Obama Up? - June 3, 2009
- The Rasmussen poll conducted over the weekend of May 30-31 asked a key question designed to give us perspective on Obama's current popularity. The question was whether...
- Why Pelosi Must Go - May 20, 2009
- It's obvious that either Leon Panetta, Obama's head of the CIA, or Nancy Pelosi, his party's Speaker of the House, has to go. No administration can tolerate a permanent,...
- Only Way to Reduce Costs is to Ration Healthcare - May 14, 2009
- When all of America's top health insurers and providers met at the White House this week and pledged to save $2 trillion over the next decade in health costs, they were...
- Obama's Economic Policy: Washington Knows Best - May 6, 2009
- President Obama's vision of the future is, apparently, an economy guided, steered and - when the occasion demands - commanded by the federal government. Some of the...
- Obama's High Approval Ratings Won't Last - April 29, 2009
- When the Obama administration crashes and burns, with approval ratings that fall through the floor, political scientists can trace its demise to its first hundred days....
- GM: You Break It, You Own It - April 1, 2009
- This move will backfire big time! The auto giant is very, very unlikely to be saved by this current TARP infusion. Doubtless it will need more in the near term. But the...
- Obama's Just Not That Into You - March 25, 2009
- Does he seriously believe that Wall Street investors will not worry that their winnings, should they join the Treasury as partners in risky investments, would be subject...
- Phony Mortgage Plan - March 11, 2009
- By excluding these homeowners from help, Obama is guilty of a holier-than-thou hypocrisy. Was it not Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that encouraged such over-mortgaged...
- An Enormous Bet on Big Government - New York Post - February 25, 2009
- Last updated: 12:42 amFebruary 25, 2009 Posted: 12:26 amFebruary 25, 2009 WITH a speech to match the most eloquent os State of the Union Addresses, with strains of FDR...
- Benedict Arnolds of the GOP - February 11, 2009
- Now the actions of three people who told their voters that they were Republicans have eliminated any hope that the GOP has for influence during the next two years. By...
- GOP, Push Free Enterprise - January 28, 2009
- By demanding that Citibank cancel its plans to buy a private jet, the Obama administration is tapping into a justified populist anger against the greed, privilege,...
- The Obama Presidency: Here Comes Socialism - January 21, 2009
- In implementing his agenda, Barack Obama will emulate the example of Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Not the liberal mythology of the New Deal, but the actuality of what it...
- After Bailout, Get Out - January 14, 2009
- The crucial difference between the approach favored by House Republicans and former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and the bailout that was passed in October of last year...
- Gaza: The Dove's War - January 7, 2009
- But it won't work for one basic reason: Livni and Barak are weak compared to Netanyahu and won't bring to bear the degree of force necessary to accomplish their...
- U.S.-Israel Collision Course - December 17, 2008
- Meanwhile, in Israel, there is a growing consensus, reflected in public opinion surveys, that trading land for peace is a chimera. Netanyahu points out that "we do not...
- The Real Threat to Our Economy - November 26, 2008
- These bailouts and stimuli will not solve the problem. They are simply painkillers -- methadone -- designed to mitigate our suffering. It is only the private sector...
- Bush's Legacy: European Socialism - November 19, 2008
- According to The Washington Post, it would "examine the books of major financial institutions that operate across national borders so regulators could begin to have a...
- An Election That the Republicans Needed to Lose -- Good Luck Oba - November 6, 2008
- If Obama raises taxes, the situation could get even worse. With a liberal Congress on his hands, he will be constrained to move to the left, if he needs any pushing....
- Undecideds Should Break for McCain - October 29, 2008
- At the beginning of this contest, Obama effectively made the case that the election was a referendum on Bush's performance in office. Painting a vote for McCain as a...
- How McCain Can Pull Off an Upset - New York Post - October 26, 2008
- The Populism Divide - October 22, 2008
- Social populism, the conservative reply, attacks the values of Hollywood and the intellectual elite. It criticizes the welfare state and opposes a redistribution of...
- ACORN Becoming an Embarrassment for Obama - October 15, 2008
- With friends like this, Obama doesn't need enemies. As their radical activities make headlines every day, Obama's intimate involvement with these radicals...
- The Obama-Ayers Connection - October 8, 2008
- Reading, math and science achievement tests counted for little in the CAC grants, but the school's success in preaching a radical political agenda determined how much...
- There's Still Time, John McCain - October 1, 2008
- He should publicly announce his support for the House Republican alternative package of insurance, loans and tax changes to deal with the financial crisis....
- First Debate: What McCain Must Do - September 24, 2008
- Because the race has been in this holding pattern for so long, it will be very hard for McCain to break into the lead. He must do so in the debates and...