Dick Morris Discusses the Obama Catastrophe
Dick Morris talks to U.S. News about his latest book Catastrophe
How do you see the Republicans doing in the 2010 elections?
There's going to be a massive backlash against Obama. The Republicans will gain significantly in Congress. The configuration in the Senate seats that are up makes it unlikely that they'll actually take control of the Senate. And the margin makes it unlikely that they'll actually win the House, but I think they'll make enormous gains, and I think that Obama will then be held in check. It's possible that healthcare reform is his Waterloo, that it just simply is a bridge too far for him. My main objection is that you simply cannot will that there's going to be more healthcare in the United States by writing a check. You're limited by the number of doctors and nurses.
Whom do you see emerging for Republicans in the 2012 presidential election?
It's really too early to tell that. And I also don't think that it's a good thing to be thinking about. I think that whenever you have a candidate, you don't permit your opponent to lose all the votes he's going to lose. At the moment, what the Republicans need is no candidate—they need to run Obama against Obama. And I think his popularity has been sliding really ever since he took office. l
Reader Comments
Morris
Morris argues that a tax cut 10 years down the road is better than money in the bank now?
The guy needs to take a basic finance course and learn something about the time value of money.
WHAY?
dick morris is a dumb dick with no balls.
Predictions
1) If Dems get strong health care reform done NOW (with a public plan option), they will do fine in 2010 and 2012. If they "choke on the big one", they are in big trouble.
2) Dick Morris will continue to enrich himself at Fox News and by writing books that Fox viewers will buy. That does not make anything he says "right".
3) Tax cuts on incomes over $50,000 are out of the question---and they should be.
We need to be raising taxes at the high end, not lowering them. This is not 1980, and you no longer have any sensible room in the brackets for tax cuts. Taxes and interest rates both being too low too long are the twin reasons we have had "bubbles", then a "crisis" and now a broke government.
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