By DICK MORRIS

Published on TheHill.com on October 25, 2011

Liberals often fail to understand the fault lines that run through the Republican Party. But when those fault lines mirror their own, you would think they’d get it.

Even as President Obama rakes in $35,000 per couple at lavish fundraisers after relying on Goldman Sachs to be his largest single donor in 2008, the left sits in a park in Manhattan decrying Wall Street excesses. The Dodd-Frank bill, sold as a measure to crack down on Wall Street, is killing community and small banks throughout the nation, hastening the day when Wall Street will be the only source of corporate or personal lending.

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, voters have clearly opted for a candidate who came from the private sector rather than one who lived his life in politics, as the continuing collapse of Rick Perry and the ongoing ascendancy of Mitt Romney and Herman Cain attest. But which private sector? Wall street and big business, or small business? Between Romney and Cain, a new chasm is emerging. As Cain put it: “Mitt generated jobs on Wall Street. I did it on Main Street.”

The same discontent that is brewing over in Lower Manhattan among the extreme left is also raging on the right as small businessmen rally to Cain, emphatically making it clear that the needs of big business are not only not their needs, but often are a direct contradiction.

In a sense, the fault lines the Romney/Cain contest is exposing are very similar to those that first made their appearance when Arizona’s Barry Goldwater defeated New York’s Nelson Rockefeller for the Republican nomination for president in 1964. The split in the GOP has only grown wider. The evangelical, small-business, economic-freedom, anti-tax and anti-regulation Tea Party vote is lining up behind Cain. The economic-growth conservatives, corporate executives, free-market economists and GOP establishment are backing Romney.

The emerging contest will not be so much the right versus the center as it will be big versus small, the establishment versus insurgents, libertarian Republicans against social conservatives and, yes, Wall Street versus Main Street.

We are going to be treated to a presidential campaign in which both parties’ candidates will have to cope with increasing animosity toward the greed and self-serving refusal to be accountable that have characterized Wall Street and the financial industry.

But it is particularly intriguing to compare the impetus for the Cain candidacy with that of the Occupy Wall Street group. Both decry the tendency toward bigness and each disapproves of massive corporate bailouts that choose winners and losers. Both are opposed to crony capitalism and do not want the federal government to be a servant of the financial industry.

And both find themselves in opposition to the mainstream of their political parties. The world is indeed round, with apologies to Thomas Friedman. The far left and the far right unite in their opposition to big business and to the centrist establishments of both parties that maintain cozy and symbiotic relationships with Wall Street.

Can Obama continue to run on Wall Street money while backed by Occupy Wall Street foot soldiers? It seems unlikely. Can Cain tap into the resentment against Wall Street that rises from the demonstrators in Lower Manhattan? Perhaps he can.

The real criticism of Obama is not that he is a socialist — advocating government ownership and control of business. It is that he is a corporatist — advocating government control while keeping ownership in private hands. He wants a few big companies and a handful of major banks, the big labor unions and the federal government to work together to divide the pie and deal the cards. He wants to establish here a corporatism reminiscent of de Gaulle’s France and modern-day Germany. Soon the left will realize what the right is already coming to know — that the mainstream of each party is hopelessly in bed with Wall Street.

In this video commentary put out by Dick Morris, he defends Herman Cain’s 999 Plan. The attacks on Cain’s 999 Plan scored in the last GOP debate and Cain did not do a good job of answering the attacks. Morris lays out what is actually going on with the proposed tax. It appears he and Newt Gingrich are the only 2 who were on the scene to understand what was going on with this proposal.

I don’t know I am getting a little tired of the bickering between Perry and Romney and what appears to be ignorance of fact from Michelle Bachmann.

You can view a video of what Morris had to say here:
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/defending-999-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/

As time goes on Herman Cain sounds more and more logical amid the political rhetoric foisted our way by those in the running for President.

Here is a video presented by Dick Morris who so far endorses no one but is interviewing them all.

HERMAN CAIN ON THE ECONOMY

HERMAN CAIN INTERVIEW ON NEW IDEAS TO TAME IRAN

HERMAN CAIN INTERVIEW ON FAIR TAX

HERMAN CAIN ON CLASS WARFARE

Dick Morris recently paid a visit to Orlando this last Friday, 10-1-2010. The local Central Florida faithful of mostly republican and one Libertarian (me) got to meet Mr. Morris at the Downtown Orlando Sheraton. The event was sponsored by the West Orange County Tea Party and we all owe them a debt of gratitude. Thanks.

After the speeches of the local politicians running for office was complete Mr. Morris light up the stage with his presence giving the faithful a big helping of red meat and wildly optimistic projections of 80 to 100 congressional seats and obliterating a generation of democrats just around the corner. The crowd loved every second of it and ate up ever last word.

Dick Morris fires up the base in Orlando, Florida on 10-1-2010

The real announcement was that Mr. Morris has concluded that Sarah Palin has been beaten up by the media too much to be viable in 2012. He stated that he wouldn’t want to spend time rehabilitating her image to the public when he could be spending time on the issues. In another indirect slap at Palin Mr. Morris stated that Gingrich could run intellectual circles around Obama in a debate indirectly implying that Palin could not. The crowd of core Republicans riotously agreed and applauded Mr. Morris and his logic.

I completely disagree. While Mrs. Palin has received harsh media treatment and was blindsided Mr. Gingrich has some real scandals and a real history to contend with.

For example his adultery with Callista Bisek, a “willowy blond Congressional aide 23 years his junior.”

He avoided military service during the Vietnam War through a combination of student and family deferments. He married one of his teachers at age 19.

He walked out on his first wife according to his ex. “He walked out in the spring of 1980…. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, “Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?” When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my surgery.” – Jackie, his first wife. The hospital visit wasn’t the end of it, either. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to contribute for bills, as utilities were about to be cut off.

Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt bounced 22 checks himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. Mr. Gingrich voted for the “secret” House pay raise, and he was chauffeured around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car. Can anyone detect a large inflated ego billowing up to the heavens? After Obama and his ego do we need another Mt. Rushmore sized ego in the White House?

This is just a partial list. He has book deals during his tenure as Speaker of the House and a second marriage with baggage. So why would Mr. Morris choose to endorse Mr. Gingrich, a man with a mountain of garbage the Democrats can pick on, over Sarah Palin who admittedly was blindsided by the leftist media. It makes no sense.

As for the intelligence issue Sarah Palin would easily run intellectual circles around Obama. Obama doesn’t have an original thought in his head. He regurgitates garbage from his father and every communist he has encountered. Understand colonialism, communism and you got Obama’s thought process. He is incapable of modifying his thoughts. A smart 5th grader could out debate Obama.

Is Newt smarter than Palin? Maybe but he can’t keep his pants zipped up. Sorry Mr. Morris but Newt Gingrich is unacceptable.

Okay enough of playing stupid boring political talk.

I appreciate all the work Mr. Morris has done for Republicans and his efforts on their behalf. That said I don’t know if I totally and completely trust an insider Jewish man from Columbia University and Washington DC. Do I know this man’s ulterior motives? Not a chance. He turned against his fellow Democrats. Could he turn against the Republicans? All I know is the Democrats would tear Newt Gingrich to pieces in the media. The politics of personal destruction would turn into a shark infested feeding frenzy. With Palin the public is so sick and tired of the “she’s stupid” crap all it would do is infuriate the base and boost turnout as well as increase passion. Not to mention piss off the women voters who are tired of the media double standard. Not a bad trade off. So why Newt?

Did Palin flatly reject or indirectly ignore a possible overture from Mr. Morris to assist her in a possible 2012 run for president? Very possible. Palin has aligned herself with fellow Fox News analysis Greta Van Susteren, Glen Beck and somewhat Bill O’Reilly. Not that any of them would be in her inner circle if she choose to run but its clear she is has her favorites. Is there a history behind the scenes? Probably not but Palin certainly has not sought out Mr. Morris to buddy around with like she does with Greta or Beck.

A second ulterior motive that no one wants to address is the polarizing affect Palin would have on America. She is from the backwoods of Alaska and is strongly adverse to the federal government and all the parasites connected to it. I personally think if she were elected president she would fire 50% of the bureaucrats in Washington, maybe more. She would not play games. She would dismantle as much of the power and privileged classes in Washington as she could. She knows it, the privileged classes in Washington DC know it and Dick Morris knows it. Gingrich is a walking think tank. Palin is a hunter/killer. Who posses the real threat to the Washington DC elites?

The third thing to realize is that Palin would be the equivalent of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a great president but his firm stance against slavery lead to the southern succession and the civil war. Would a Palin presidency and her opposition to the government elites who weld real power over America have the same affect? Would Obama pick up his marbles and move to the new Peoples Republic of America capital in Albany, New York or San Francisco, California?

With the financial melt down becoming more apparent everyday what will the United States be like in 2012? There is a very good possibility that there will be a nasty decline in our fortunes. You can see the elites making their escape plans right now before the fall. Morris knows this. Is he looking for the least painful exit strategy? What is the man’s ulterior motive for picking such a flawed candidate?

We are fast heading toward the November mid term elections.
Independents, libertarians and the TEA PARTY are very likely to make their voices heard in a big way.
The GOP mistakenly thinks this is a tremendous advantage. What they do not seem to understand (especially the old guard) … it is NOT THE PARTY “we the people” are interested in IT IS the mindset behind the person running.

We have already seen a number of upsets which have ushered in the “out with the old and in with the new” attitude. The opposition is left shaking in their boots HOPING BEYOND HOPE that somehow that tide recedes before it is their turn for the proverbial boot.

Meanwhile all they have as argument for keeping their jobs are blatant lies and MORE SPENDING promises while looting the public coffers. These still are people who voted for a 2000 page bill which was not read beforehand.

Then we see Senate Republicans hold a closed-door meeting Wednesday afternoon to elect someone to replace Senator Murkowski as the top Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Rather than taking away Murkowski’s leadership position on the committee, Senate Republicans decided to let her keep it. One senator after another stood up to argue in favor of protecting her place on the committee ? a position she will no doubt use in her campaign against Joe Miller, the conservative Republican nominee.

Bet hedging behavior or plain old stupidity?
We the public are not noticing any of this?
Foolish if they are counting on that.

Political runs according to Dick Morris.

Joe DioGuardi, the Republican nominee for US Senate is now only one point behind Democratic appointed Senator Kristin Gillibrand. According to a poll by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and the White Plains Journal News and conducted by SurveyUSA, Gillibrand has only 45% of the vote to DioGuardi’s 44%!

Republicans need to get ten seats to take control. They have sure wins in Indiana, North Dakota, and Arkansas and strong leads in Colorado and Pennsylvania. That’s five. Republicans have smaller leads in Illinois and Wisconsin, both of which look like likely GOP pickups. That’s seven. In Nevada, Harry Reid and Sharron Angle are locked in a 46-46 tie and have been for almost two months. If Reid cannot improve his vote share, he will lose most of the undecided and Angle should win. In California, Democrat Boxer is a bit ahead of Republican Fiorini but still below 50 and in Washington State, Democrat Murray is a bit ahead of Republican Rossi, but also below 50.

To those 8-10 pickups, now add New York and West Virginia where the Democrat Manchin clings to a 46-44 lead over Republican Raese. And Republicans have a chance to come back in Delaware and to win in Connecticut.

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on DickMorris.com on September 16, 2009

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 why:

(a) Whether or not there is a public option makes no difference in the fundamental objection most elderly have to the bill – that it guts Medicare and Medicaid. All of the bills now under consideration cut these two programs by one half of a trillion dollars. And all of them require the medical community to serve thirty to fifty million new patients without any concomitant growth in the number of doctors or nurses. These cuts and shortages will lead to draconian rationing of medical care for the elderly, whether under a public option or not.

(b) The most likely proposal is to replace the public option with some form of buyer’s co-op. But since there is no currently existing co-op to serve as a vehicle for health insurance, it would have to be formed. By who? The government, of course. That would mean, as a practical matter, that the “co-op option” would be a government run plan for several years. In fact, they may not get around to setting up a co-op at all.

(c) The other alternative, mentioned by Senator Snowe herself, would be for a “trigger” mechanism. This provision would require the creation of a public alternative to private insurance plans if, after a specified period of time, they did not lower rates to a pre-determined level. Given the escalation of health care costs, it is almost inevitable that this provision would lead to a government plan. And, anyway, who says that the government insurance option would be more successful in reducing costs?

But Obama has to at least appear to be willing to compromise, so he has invented the idea of re-packaging the public option in order to seem to be flexible.

The key, here, is not to be distracted by the debate over the public option. It matters very much to private insurance companies whether the government becomes their competitor, but, for the elderly (and the near-elderly), the key concern is not the public option by the rationing and cuts projected under the program.

In the Clinton Administration, we worked hard to kill the proposed Medicare cuts and are no less committed to stopping them in the Obama presidency. That they were once proposed by the right and are now being pushed by the left makes no difference. A cut is a cut is a cut. And Medicare should not be cut.

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published in the New York Post on July 23, 2009

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 to make good health-care decisions”. . .by telling the physicians what to do.

When the president says he guarantees the “same coverage” to people who like their current health-insurance policies, he means that their current HMOs, insurers and doctors will be the ones to implement the protocols and instructions the government hands down to them — not that we’ll have our current freedom of decision-making.

When he blandly assures us that we will “stop paying for things that don’t make us healthier,” he really means that his Federal Health Board will overrule your doctor and stop him from using his own best judgment in your treatment.

The president will “get the politics out of health care” by putting it under government control.

Obama says that he will not “add to the deficit” to fund health care. But the bill reported out by Rep. Charlie Rangel’s Ways and Means Committee leaves $550 billion unfunded.

The president says that he’ll identify savings that will reduce the need for more taxes — even though the Congressional Budget Office refuses to say that his “savings” will actually work and warns that the bill will really be added to the deficit.

He repeatedly tells us that he’ll cut health-care spending. What he means is that he will cut doctors’ incomes and will turn down patients — particularly the elderly — when they seek medical care that his bureaucrats disapprove of.

And he ignores that cutting incomes in the medical field will reduce the number of doctors and force further rationing of care.

The president opines that he will replace the most “expensive care” with the “best care” by empowering government officials who have never met you to substitute their judgment for that of your doctor, who has examined you thoroughly.

When Obama laments that “14,000 people lose their insurance every day,” he is referring to the job losses that his own failed efforts to end the recession have permitted.

He warns that health-care costs are gobbling up money that employers should use to raise wages and worker pay — yet the plans he backs would require employers to pay 8 percent of their payroll as a tax or provide insurance to their workers.

The Obama plan highlights greater preventive care — but, at the same time, cuts medical incomes and so will cut the number of doctors who might provide it.

The stimulus package, in the Gospel According to Barack, was “designed” to work over the next two years. But at the time, he demanded immediate passage to “jump-start the economy” — something that clearly did not happen.

Medicare and Medicaid are “driving the deficit” even as he increased the amount of red ink by at least $800 billion in six months with little, if any, increase in the cost of either program.

He says he “expects” banks to repay their TARP money. In fact, they’re lining up around the block to do so — but the Treasury will only permit a handful of them to do so.

In summary, Obama’s health program will promote “lower cost and more choice” by increasing spending by $1 trillion, telling patients what care they’re permitted to have, and limiting their access to quality care.

Orwell’s heirs should sue for violation of copyright.

As I was discussing with my cousin yesterday there is so much crap going on in not our own government but being linked to the world government. The G20 is a good example.

At the G20 meeting in London, President Obama agreed to the creation of an international board with authority to intervene in U.S. corporations by dictating executive compensation and approving or disapproving business management decisions according to Jerome Corsi in his Red Alert reports.

Political consultant Dick Morris said that by agreeing to create the Financial Stability Board, Obama is a “willing accomplice” to a decision that effectively repealed the U.S. Declaration of Independence and abrogated the sovereignty of the United States.

By the way last August I ordered the Dick Morris book Fleeced. How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us … and What to Do About It.

It was interesting because what came to pass of late in the economic sell out of our nation (by both parties) was pretty much outlined in that book.

Personally before the government became almost totally corrupt they were hard pressed at running much of anything in a satisfactory manner. Now they want to poke their fingers in your business pie? Most of these people who have less experience than a 4 year old running anything but our economic system into the ground?

If you are a business owner or thinking of becoming one (you know the American dream stuff) … you better unite and scream ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

If you want to read the “Declaration on Strengthening the Financial System” for yourself it is provided in PDF format.