Author: Dick Morris

Hillary Clinton likes to present herself as an everywoman, facing the same challenges that bedevil all families, living in sync with their trials and tribulations, overcoming adversity as we all try to do. The latest iteration of her wish to downplay her wealth so as to be just plain folks was her bald assertions to […]

Why did President Obama release five of the most dangerous prisoners he had in Guantanamo in exchange for a man who is, at best, a deserter and, at worst, a traitor? Why did he take the risk of bypassing Congress? Didn’t he realize the fallout that would hit him? I believe the answer is that […]

When Hillary Clinton sat down to pen “Hard Choices,” her memoir that comes out next week, she had a simple explanation for her repeated insistence that the Benghazi raid was motivated by a “hateful video” rather than a terrorist attack. All she had to say was that we relied on the best intelligence available at […]

Why, some Republicans are asking, should we focus on winning the Senate? What will it achieve as long as Barack Obama is still president? We won’t get 67 votes to override his vetoes or even 60 votes to overcome filibusters. Why bother? Here’s why winning the Senate, while not a complete answer, is still worth […]

The former secretary of state has characterized her place in history as akin to a runner in a relay race, taking the baton, running her laps as best she can, and then handing it off to John Kerry, her successor. But the actual record indicates that, rather than a relay, Hillary Clinton’s role in Iranian […]

A new book by Glenn Greenwald — Edward Snowden’s journalistic confessor — charges that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice asked the NSA to spy on U.N. diplomats from countries casting the swing votes on the Security Council on whether to toughen sanctions on Iran. Question: Did Hillary approve the surveillance? Did she know about it? We […]

How did Obama administration aide Ben Rhodes get the language for the talking points he prepared for Susan Rice condemning the anti-Muslim Internet video that purportedly triggered “spontaneous” demonstrations leading to the attack on Benghazi? Interestingly enough, the words he sent out about the video were identical to those used by Hillary Clinton two days […]

Of the last eight people who have won the Republican nomination for president, six ran for the office and lost before eventually getting their party’s designation. To win as a Republican, it would seem you have to first go through losing. Romney, McCain, Dole, Bush-41, Reagan, and Nixon all lost before they won. Only Bush-43 […]

Obamacare has signed up 8 million people. Democrats are breathing a sign of relief, but their trials have only just begun. Now a large swath of America will experience first hand the shortages of doctors, the limited access to hospitals, the high deductibles, the large copays, the significant coinsurance requirements, and the long delays in […]

Do our treaty commitments mean anything? Are they worth the paper upon which they are written? In 1994, President Clinton, British Prime Minister Major, Russian President Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Kuchma signed The Budapest Memorandum pledging themselves and their nations to “respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.” The treaty was […]

A plan, now stealthily making its way through state legislatures with astonishing speed, would junk the Electoral College and award the presidency to the winner of the popular vote. The plan involves an interstate compact where states would commit to select electors pledged to vote for the national popular vote winner regardless of how their […]

Allegations of voter fraud fly back and forth in modern American politics, each based on episodic personal observations or on anomalous electoral outcomes. But now for the very first time, comes concrete proof of massive voter fraud in the 2012 election, sufficiently widespread to have tainted over one million votes nationwide. So far the data […]

Congressman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is charged with investigating the adequacy of security at the Benghazi compound prior to the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack. His wife, Kristi Clemens Rogers was the president and the CEO of the company that was contracted by the State Department to provide that […]

Republican Senate candidates now lead their rivals in seven contests, including three involving Democratic incumbents. Republicans need to win six seats to gain control of the Senate. In an eight seat, the Republican is tied with a Democratic incumbent. And, in a ninth contest, the GOP candidate trails the Democratic incumbent by only two points. […]

In 1983, the British Labor Party issued its manifesto for the coming election, demanding a radical move away from the West, the dismantling of the U.K. military and increases in taxes and more government regulation. The manifesto so alienated the British electorate that Conservative Party MP Gerald Kaufman called it “the longest suicide note in […]

Throughout her political career, Hillary Clinton has used her gender and the still-novel specter of a woman running for president to cloak her advances and shield her from losses. It is never about her. Her own merits, qualifications, defects, failures or shortcomings are never the issue. The question is always: How are we to treat […]

Amid all the controversy that surrounds the Obama presidency, none has really changed his personal image among the American people. His credibility has suffered as his claims about Obamacare have been proven false. Certainly, his competency is more subject to question. But, while voters disagree with much of what he proposes and has done, none […]

In a policy retreat that is little-known and virtually uncovered in media circles (except for the Wall Street Journal), the Obama administration has effectively postponed, for three years, any requirement that those whose health care policies were canceled or will be canceled from having to buy health insurance. This regulatory decision, coupled with the delays […]

Establishment Republicans always remind us of how the tea party cost the Party crucial seats in 2010 and 2012; seats that might have delivered control of the Senate to the GOP. And, they have a point. If tea party candidates had not won primaries in Delaware, Nevada, Colorado, Indiana, and Missouri, these states might now […]

Without knowing that she was being recorded, Hillary Clinton told a recent gathering that when Russian leader Vladimir Putin “looks at Ukraine, he sees a place that he believes is, by its very nature, part of Mother Russia.” Her remarks come perilously close to justifying Putin’s behavior. More of concern, they also echo the very […]

While many are justifiably criticizing President Obama’s weak response to the Russian invasion of the Crimea, we should dig deeper and ask if his undermining of our defense readiness and his policy of soft diplomacy have actually enabled Putin’s seizure of the province. History suggests that when American presidents show weakness, Russia is swift to […]

President Obama and his newest staff, John Podesta, are using the same executive action strategy we used during the 1995-96 Clinton campaign to gain traction in public opinion despite a hostile Congress. But Republicans and conservatives do not understand exactly what his moves are about and are at a loss to counter them. The Gallup […]

The Federal Communications Commission is about to launch a direct assault on the freedom of media to cover news as it chooses. The program, called the Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs involves requesting information from all radio and television stations — and newspapers — about how they cover news, who decides what gets covered, […]

In state capitols throughout America, a drama will play out this coming year and in every subsequent year for at least a decade. Legislators and governors will find themselves unable to provide decently for education without cutting back on the ambitious Medicaid expansion built into Obamacare. Even in those states that opted not to participate […]

The best way to move immigration reform through the House and to get it passed is to involve the governors of the border states — California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas — in the enforcement of the process. No Republicans, no Independents, and damn few Democrats trust Barack Obama. To condition immigration reform on the […]

By saying that her main regret during her years as secretary of state is the terror attack on the Benghazi consulate and the deaths of four Americans, Hillary Clinton continues her cover-up. Even as she expresses her regrets, she pretends that the reason she did not act to beef up security at the compound and […]

To turn Henry Kissinger’s famous quote around, even those with enemies can be paranoid. So it is with Hillary Clinton. Few were surprised by recent revelations that her staff labored for weeks after her 2008 campaign to amass an “enemies list” of those who received Clintonian largesse and failed to reciprocate. Like Nixon, she wanted […]

One of the least publicized aspects of Obamacare is its bailout of insurance companies. Far from warring against them as Hillary did in 1993, the Obama program is their new best friend. Robert Laszewski, a health care consultant, points out that Obamacare is really a giant reinsurance program, capping the liability of health insurance companies. […]

President Obama’s mission as 2014 starts is simple: He has to distract attention from the health care debacle. Health care reform isn’t working and won’t work. So he needs to create a diversion. With his poll numbers lagging around 40 percent, he is naturally concerned to stop the erosion of his base, so he is […]

On Friday, Dec. 20, 2012, Obamacare died. The president announced that if your health care plan was cancelled as a result of the requirements of Obamacare, you are relieved from having to obey the individual mandate to have health insurance. He also said that a simple catastrophic policy would suffice if you chose to get […]