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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.
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  • 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...
  • Obama's Taxes Could Wreck Economy - September 22, 2008
    • It is obvious that increasing capital gains taxes by a minimum of one-third and possibly doubling them, both of which Obama has proposed during his campaign, would send...
  • The Emerging Obama Deficit - September 17, 2008
    • • They prefer the Democrats to deal with the economy by four points (down from 10 a few months ago) but feel -- by eight points -- that the Republicans better...
  • November Lineup: Obama vs. Obama - September 10, 2008
    • The Obama campaign doesn't seem to get that it is running against McCain, not Sarah Palin. It spent the entire Republican convention and the week since...
  • Democrats in Trouble - New York Post - September 5, 2008
  • Dems Pounce Too Soon - September 4, 2008
    • But Palin had a speech coming. Because of the publicity surrounding her, it was probably one of the most widely watched orations of the political season. As this is...
  • McCain Takes Back Race With Inspired Pick - New York Post - August 31, 2008
  • Dems' Big Blunder and McCain's Big Chance - August 28, 2008
    • This pattern of shooting at the decoy, not the duck, gives McCain a bold strategic opportunity. He can nullify the impact of the entire Democratic convention simply by...
  • The Better Hillary Does, the Worse for Obama - August 27, 2008
    • Obama has a huge problem with female voters. A Democratic candidate should be running 10 to 15 points better among women than among men. But Obama is losing men by 1 and...
  • The Obama-Not Hillary Ticket - August 24, 2008
    • But what about Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius? While not a national figure, she is attractive and articulate, and would have made a fine candidate. But Obama was...
  • Back-to-Back Conventions: The Great Unknown - August 20, 2008
    • At the moment, the scheduling of the conventions appears to make a prolonged deadlock between the two campaigns the most likely result. Normally, when...
  • Bad Economy May Hurt Obama - August 6, 2008
    • And Obama is no ordinary challenger. Not like Bill Clinton, for example. In 1992, from the moment the campaign started, Clinton billed himself as the expert who could...
  • Obama's Women Problem - July 30, 2008
    • For a Democrat to be losing among women over 40 is without precedent in the past 20 years.In fact, the gap between male and female voting preference in this election is...