I love Dick Morris. It’s bewildering that he ever worked for Bill and Hillary. He is now a regular on Hannity. And I guess that somewhere along the line – he saw the light. Just like Paul on the road to Damascus. He now sees the danger and horror of the very party that he once served. The outlook he has for this nation is a gloomy prophecy….much like the one Paul eventually prophecized for our planet. But it’s important that we understand what he has to say.
Now that Obama is the president, fasten your seat belts. During his first year in office, and particularly during his first hundred days, we are about to witness the most prodigious output of legislation since 1981-2 (under Reagan), 1964-5 (under Johnson), and 1933-36 (under Roosevelt). The combination of top heavy Democratic majorities in Congress and a mood of public fear bordering on panic over the financial crisis and the looming depression will speed his legislation through a compliant Senate and House.
We will enter his Administration as the United States, buoyed by an aggressive free market economy. We will exit his first year – and even the first hundred days – as France, burdened with massive government regulation, a vast public sector, and permanent middle class entitlements. And Obama will take care to arrange things so that massive and permanent political change accompanies his and protects his legislative achievements in the future.
Morris is correct. This election and the two Congressional elections preceding it allowed the stars to align for liberal socialism in this nation. All of those people who longed to see us fall into the mode of Scandanvian-type socialism must be overjoyed now. Our nation is still plagued with the socialist entitlements that were introduced under FDR and LBJ. Obama and his minions are set on, not only entrenching those policies further, but also expanding them. I fail to understand their motives except to think that there are those who believe that a socialist/Marxist model of economic governance still has the possibility of succeeding despite their historic failure. Morris goes on -
He will call this radical change a stimulus package. He will dress up a generation of liberal priorities as necessary steps to fight the economic crisis. His programs and policies won’t do much to end the depression. It will end only after the massive burden of debt is lifted from the shoulders of American and foreign households and companies, a process which will take years. At most, his stimulus will act as methadone while we withdraw from our debt addiction, mitigating the pain, smoothing over the trauma, and soothing our system.
But Obama’s strategy is to hide inside the Trojan Horse of stimulus an army of radical measures to change America permanently.
There is much more to this. Everyone needs to read the full article. The sad thing is that Republicans enabled this type of government expansion – especially GW – during the last few years. And now we will pay the price for generations to come. Everything that Ronald Reagan did to undo the economic misjudgements of the past was all in vain. And Congressional Republicans set a precedent during their time in power as accomplices to a psedo-conservative president in order to make it all possible.
We should all be afraid. Obama will weaken our defense and foreign policy. That’s bad enough. But he will destroy us from within with his economic policy. And I have very little faith that Republicans in Congress have the cajones to stand up to him or to stand for fiscal conservatism. We have always heard about RINOs who were socially moderate and fiscally conservative. That was an abberation. We will soon see that many of the current Congressional Republicans were neither.
I hope for a shift in 2010, but I’m not counting on it. Morris says -
Most likely, Obama’s inability to tame the depression will erode his popularity during his first two years in office. But, by then, his proposals will be statutes. The fiscal parameters, the middle class’ expectations of no taxes and government handouts, and the demographics of our electorate will be changed forever.
Nevertheless, Dick slipped on Hannity today and mentioned the 2010 elections in a positive light for Republicans. I don’t think he was counting on it, but I was a little amused when he said “we” in terms of Republicans making gains. Our only hope at mitigating the devastating effects of Obama’s economic policies is to erode the Dem majorities in Congress in 2010 and taking it all back in 2012. Our journey begins now. And it is imperative that each and every one of us does the most that we can to make sure that the oligarchy of liberalism does not continue. The future of our nation is at stake.
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Good post!
Oh. I’m trying so hard not to have Obama Derangement Syndrome. But it’s hard. I read blog after blog of people that voted for him because of hope and change and all the *promises*.
WHAT did he promise? Ken Salazar is already planning to ban off-shore drilling again. How is that a change? How are more taxes a change? I saw a Someecard this morning that said “This inaguration feels like a first date with a really great guy after an eight-year dysfunctional relationship with a loser who spent all my money”.
If they’re bitching about it now, why won’t the be bitching about it in another 4?
I don’t understand how people can be so blindly follow?
There’s this crazy woman: http://truebluetexan.blogspot.com/2009/01/israel-and-gaza.html
And this one- that quotes the west wing: http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/
Who are these people? And where do they come from? And why do they think like they do? I’m suddenly surrounded by them IRL!
Philip, I love Dick Morris. His book a few years ago, “Rewriting History,” was spectacular. It has never surprised me that he wasn’t given more airtime on any station other than FOX because so many people *still* think that Clinton was the greatest President in recent history. Much like the bloggers that SDCowgirl pointed out.
By the way, SDC, I read a little on those blogs and those people pissed me off.
I almost hope for a Clintonesque end to all of this. We were sure when Clinton was elected that America was about to be brought down. We survived eight years of that great buffoon and went on to elect someone who actually had balls. His economic policy sucked, but after the first attack nobody dared touch us again. At least we weren’t shelling out millions to recover from bombings anymore.
I’m hoping that something similar will play out here. Yes, Obama is worse, but if we can survive four years of this dude and really turn things around in 2010 and 2012, we’ll be okay.At least that’s what I’m hoping.
I still think it’ll be less than a year before we’re hit again.
I don’t think Morris is conservative, or a Republican. Or a liberal, for that matter. I think he is just simply Dick Morris. And I think that lack of political party fueled identity is exactly why his discussions so often manage to hit things that no one else notices (except when it touches the Clinton’s – he has too much invested there to be truly disattached).
I love to read and hear what Dick Morris has to say. It’s seriously good stuff.
EXCELLENT post, Philip!
Just my opinion. George McGovern wanted to continue LBJ’s disaster but the country stopped him with a resounding No. It took another 36 years to finally get someone to finish this nation off and now we are stuck with him.
“I still think it’ll be less than a year before we’re hit again.”
As zealous as the jihadist terrorists are, I don’t seem them trying again. George Bush proved the U.S. is not a Paper Tiger. For Obama to back away from that is political suicide.
George Bush proved the U.S. is not a Paper Tiger.
That worked for a year. Then we started letting Iran do whatever the hell they wanted and now they think we’re too weak again.
That’s the problem, John–Obama IS backing away from it. He’s ordered the immediate shutdown of all foreign CIA “black sites,” areas where people known to be involved with terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda are interrogated and I imagine a lot of information is gathered. Obama has also declared that Gitmo is to be closed within a year. He has already sent the message that he’s backing down and we’re practically hopeless again.
And when it comes to Islam, they’re not nearly as afraid of us invading them as we think they are. They’ve been stopped so far by the fact that we’ve been keeping them busy and we’ve been giving ourselves the power to take them down without having to wait for search warrants and other such nonsense; all that is going to go away. There’s no way Obama is going to allow the Patriot Act to continue.
I’m glad someone else was pissed off reading those blogs. This is now what i live with everyday. I miss Texas.
So, you love Dick Morris, who in turn, loves licking the toes of prostitutes, but you hate Clinton, who had consensual sex where no money was involved. Can someone say irony?
“There’s no way Obama is going to allow the Patriot Act to continue.”
Hooray!!!
“He’s ordered the immediate shutdown of all foreign CIA “black sites,” areas where people known to be involved with terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda are interrogated and I imagine a lot of information is gathered”
That’s some imagination…
Robert- you may find this hard, if not impossible to do, but there are people that can separate the person’s actions and beliefs from them. It is possible to “love the sinner and hate the sin”. Some folks can say that someone has worth because they are a person, and yet disagree with them.
“It is possible to “love the sinner and hate the sin”. Some folks can say that someone has worth because they are a person, and yet disagree with them.”
Yeah, tell that to the scumbags who persecuted Clinton for doing what they themselves were guilty of. All of them: Bob Barr, Bob Livingston, Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde. Hypocrites. I sincerely doubt they separated sin from person….
Robert…the “cheese of REALITY has Slid OFF Your Cracker”!!! (luv your tolerarce)