Author: Dick Morris

House Speaker John Boehner would not be House Speaker John Boehner if it were not for the tea party and the other conservative groups he now criticizes. He says that they “lack all credibility” and accuses them of “using our members [Congressmen] and the American people for their own goals.” Asked about the criticism leveled […]

As he has done before, whenever President Obama is in political trouble, he seeks to rally his base by a particular brand of populism designed to appeal to those who have an impaired memory of his previous diatribes. But as he rails against income inequality, seeks a raise in the minimum wage and tries to […]

To distract attention from the Obamacare disaster, the president is seeking to focus on income inequality. But here, for him, the ground is even shakier. The fact is that while income inequality has been getting worse, it is the policies of the Obama administration that are causing the trend. During the Clinton years, 45 percent […]

In the wake of President Obama’s decision to allow state insurance commissioners to decide if the cancellations of health insurance policies Obamacare has forced are to stand, Democratic, blue-state commissioners are digging a hole for the president and for their party. So deep and so wide is the hole that it may serve as a […]

The Nov. 23 New York Times reported that redistribution has become the unmentionable word at the Obama White House. Former Chief of Staff William Daley says that redistribution is “a loaded word that c0njures up all sorts of unfairness in people’s minds.” He notes that it is a word that in the political world, you […]

Over the past several years, conservatives have complained that President Obama was usurping power disregarding Congress and the Constitution and governing by decree. But on Thursday, there was a virtual coup d’etat on the floor of the U.S. Senate when the Democrats, in a party-line vote, stripped the Republicans of any role in judicial confirmations. […]

Like old soldiers, Obamacare may never die. It may just fade away. Certainly each of its provisions is shrinking before our eyes. The most obvious evidence of its vanishing is the dismal enrollment data. With only 106,000 people signing up by mid-November, it risks becoming a trivial footnote to the health care landscape. While the […]

President Obama’s program of misleading the American people continued today when he proposed allowing insurance companies to rescind cancellations of insurance policies for a year. His proposal is a way to have his cake and eat it, too. By leaving it up to the insurance companies to decide on whether or not to cancel, he […]

Commentators have missed the significance of President Clinton’s public expression of his “personal opinion” that Obama should “honor his commitment” to let people keep their health insurance plans if they like them. By intervening in the chaos surrounding the Obamacare launch, President Clinton has staked out ground for his wife in her efforts to position […]

The polls show that a majority of all voters would like to see every incumbent defeated, including their own members of the House and Senate. Sobering news indeed. The reason, in my view, is that the politicians are out of step with the electorate. While voters are crying for pragmatism, they get only ideology. When […]

Bring back French Fries. First, Russia shows the impotence of our Syrian policy, and now France demonstrates how we are appeasing Iran foolishly. It has not been a good year for Obama’s foreign policy. The world is catching on. But for the objections of the newly stand-up French, led by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, the […]

The Virginia election returns confirm what political insiders have known for many decades — that the real gap in our politics is not between men and women but between married men and married women on the one hand and single men and single women on the other. It doesn’t matter if you are divorced, separated, […]

Democrats in the House and Senate will force President Obama to stop canceling insurance policies and restore those he has already caused insurance companies to cancel. The Party simply cannot go into the next election with tens of millions of voters angry at them for costing them their health insurance. Especially after the president made […]

Question: Now that it appears that 16 million Americans will lose the health insurance they currently have as a result of Obamacare, where will they turn for coverage? Answer: Obamacare By the middle of next year, President Obama and his team are going to have to face the embarrassment of few enrollees in Obamacare. They […]

The wiretapping of the personal cell phones of 35 foreign leaders, including our closest allies, is clearly President Obama’s scandal. But is it also Hillary Clinton’s? Obama claims he knew nothing about the unprecedented spying, and the Wall Street Journal reported that he shut it down when he found out last summer. The question for […]

Enrollment figures from state Obamacare exchanges are revealing a pattern that will alter fundamentally the terms of the debate over President Obama’s signature health insurance program. When it was proposed, considered and enacted, it was seen as a program requiring everybody to buy private insurance on health exchanges or face a fine. Those already covered […]

Documents from whistle-blower Edward Snowden and published by The Guardian indicate that the NSA tapped the phones of 35 foreign leaders without their knowledge or permission. The revelation comes on top of the existing controversy surrounding taps placed on the phones of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. But these disclosures beg […]

The real problem with Obamacare is not that the launch has been plagued by glitches, computer crashes and blocked screens. These superficial manifestations of its incompetent administration are not the key problem the program faces. The lethal threat to its future is that nobody wants it or needs it. The glitches have permitted the administration […]

The new NBC poll has sent shock waves through the political world. This government shutdown is triggering a disastrous decline in Republican fortunes and has left President Obama largely unaffected. –GOP approval is down to 24 percent, the lowest ever and a drop of ten points in two weeks. Democratic Party approval is 43 percent, […]

Everybody who has studied the situation will tell you that there is no real way that the U.S. would default on any of its debts. With $250 billion of tax revenues coming in, on average, each month and debt service, including interest, averaging only $25 billion each month, how is a default possible? We don’t […]

Read the tea leaves: 1. President Obama says he’s willing to sign a short-term continuing resolution and a limited increase in the debt limit lasting a few months. Of course, he says the bills must be clean, without conditions, but that is a good place to start serious moves. 2. Obama is breaking his splendid […]

As his battle with the Republicans focuses more on the debt limit and less on Obamacare, the president has invented a new vocabulary to suit his political needs. “Seeking to raise the debt limit” is out. “Preventing an economic shutdown” is in. Debt is never mentioned. The word is “obligations.” This is not an effort […]

Why didn’t anyone else think of it? Scott Pruitt, the Attorney General of Oklahoma, acting on the research of Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Cannon published in the Case Western Reserve School of Law Journal, has brought a new lawsuit, on behalf of the state, against Obamacare. Unlike the suit brought by 26 state […]

In between crying wolf over the impact of a government shutdown triggered by no continuing resolution or an “economic shutdown” brought on by no debt-limit increase, President Obama makes an institutional case saying that he is protecting the power of the presidency against legislative usurpation. Within Congress, Democrats are asking if playing hardball with these […]

If the House Republicans come away from the shutdown exercise with only one accomplishment — the end to the taxpayer subsidy of health plans for Congress, its staff and federal appointed officials — it will be a very, very big win which will resonate throughout the land. Voters who right now hold the government shutdown […]

Democrats are happy because they believe Republicans are destroying themselves by shutting down the government over Obamacare. They are right. But the problem is that so are the Democrats & so is President Obama. House Republicans need to stop the bleeding over their government shutdown. By letting things get to this pass, they are prejudicing […]

The House Republicans are not presenting their case well to the public. They engage in Washington-speak and talk about the “individual mandate.” But most people don’t get that under the Republican plan to end the shutdown, the Obamacare exchanges will remain open and will invite all who wish to come in and sign up. It […]

The Republican Party should temporarily retreat from the brink of a government shutdown and retrench to wage a battle over the debt limit increase two weeks hence. It was unwise of House Speaker John Boehner to insist on linking Obamacare to the bill to keep the government open rather than to the debt-limit increase in […]

Republicans need to recast their demands in the coming debt limit negotiations from total defunding or repeal of Obamacare to a one year delay in the implementation of the individual mandate. In doing so, they will pick up support from millions of Americans who are just confused by Obamacare. Most people have no idea what […]

The emerging Republican strategy — to fall back from the fight over the continuing resolution and to fight over the debt limit increase — is excellent. But one tiny change is needed — don’t allow the government to stay open unless the government subsidy for health care coverage for Congress is blocked. Will the Democrats […]