Dick Morris on All Topics
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“It appears that no matter how hard Obama jams on the brakes with his new-found commitment to deficit reduction -- having already almost doubled the deficit in one year -- the level of red ink just seems inexorably to rise. Obviously, more fundamental change in the budget's engineering is needed. But, unfortunately, it is easier to recall a car than a president.”
“President Obama was disingenuous when he said that the budget deficit he faced "when I walked in the door" of the White House was $1.3 trillion. He went on to say that he only increased it to $1.4 trillion in 2009 and was raising it to $1.6 trillion in 2010. As Joe Wilson said, "You lie."”
“When President Bill Clinton faced Congress in 1995, after first losing any hope of health care reform and then control of Congress, he used his State of the Union speech to declare, "The era of big government is over." President Obama's State of the Union speech last night only served to remind us that the era of big speeches is over.”
“Any president, at any time, can choose to embody the consensus his nation has reached after it has engaged in a period of extended debate. That process, called triangulation, involves the embrace of the elements advanced by the right and by the left that Americans have found valid and the rejection of those from which they have turned away.”
“A squishy, misguided, weak-kneed liberalism has emerged in Hillary Clinton's comments about the kind of sanctions that would work best in halting Iran's nuclear program. Rather than take the one step that would really be effective - cutting off the flow of refined gasoline to Iran - she instead insists that we need to target the Iranian leadership with sanctions.”
“Scott Brown has won Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat, which means any Republican can win at any time in any place. Such are the fortunes to which the Democratic Party has fallen under the ministrations of President Barack Obama.”
“The Republican Party has a very, very good chance of taking control of both houses of Congress in 2010.”
“The more Democrats that quit, the more others are also encouraged to hang it up.”
“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 2010 than any other aspect of the healthcare debate.”
“At best, [the health care] bill will insure you when you are sick and make the rest of us pay the bill. And, in the meantime, you'll have to chip in $750 a year for the privilege.”
“As the bill now stands, it doesn’t have any teeth.”
“Still you use your majorities to pass the single most unpopular piece of legislation in recent history.”
“While the smoke rises from the Capitol building where the health care debate proceeds, Obama is losing his political base on the left.”
“The Obama healthcare initiative will be the biggest unfunded federal mandate on the states in history.”
“While Obama has been at great pains to make a show of avoiding taxes on the middle class to pay for his health care changes, his proposed increase in Medicaid eligibility will have a huge impact on the 39 states whose income cutoffs for the program are below those required in the new federal legislation.”
