Dick Morris - Catastrophe

Take Back Our Country

How Obama is Causing a Catastrophe

Obamas War on Prosperity

The Bank Bailout That Bombed

Obamas Mortgage Plan That Wont Help You

Obamas Health Care Catastrophe

Obamas Blueprint for Political Domination

Obama Sends Message: The War on Terror Is Over

The United States Sends Aid to Hamas. Yes, Hamas!

How Congress Causes Catastrophe

Christopher Dodd and Charles Rangel: From Idealistic Reformers to Privileged Insiders

There Is Nothing like a NameTed Kennedy, Jr., the Senators Son

Stealth Lobbyists: The Former Congressional Leaders Who Secretly Influence Federal Policies and Spending

How Special Interests Cause Catastrophe

The Sheer Chutzpah of Countrywide Financial Executives

Pay to Play: No-Bid Contracts Exchanged for Campaign Cash

Slow Surrender: How Our Banks and Investment Firms Are Opening the Door to Shariah Law and Muslim Extremist Domination

How Bill Clinton GoofedCosting You $60 Billion

Tarmac Hostages: How Airlines Imprison You on the Runway

The Silent Catastrophe: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Our Military

Its time to take back our country.

Now.

Its that simple. Its that urgent.

Its time to take it back from President Barack Obama, before he fully implements his radical political agendaone that threatens our liberty, endangers our livelihood, and jeopardizes our very safety and security.

Obama has canceled the war on terror and declared a war on prosperity.

Its a catastrophe.

Make no mistake about it: We now have a socialist in the White House. Barack Obama firmly believes in government control of our major industries, a hallmark of European socialism. Watch him. First it was the banks, then the auto industry. Whats next? Hell keep going until the federal government owns or dominates every major American business and sets the salaries for all employees.

Using the global economic crisis as an excuse to revolutionize our economy and institutionalize pervasive and perverse changes masquerading as reforms, Obama wants to change our way of living, working, and even thinking.

Hes committed to orchestrating an extraordinary redistribution of wealth, significantly raising taxes on those who make more than $200,000 a year while providing tax credits and other advantages to those who dont. He intends to create a dual tax system: on one side there will be those who pay an enormous amount of taxes, and on the other there will be those who pay nothing at all but are regularly and directly subsidized by the increased taxes of those who do. Think France.

Obama plans to expand the role, size, and cost of government vastly and to regulate each and every aspect of corporate and commercial conduct. Its only a matter of time before political correctness, too, will be legislated, and the policing of acceptable personal conduct will become yet another role of the government. Everything is on the table. Remember that both his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, have warned that we shouldnt waste a good crisis like the one were in.

Waste a crisis? What do they mean? Well, apparently the Obama administration sees the current atmosphere of economic turmoil and uncertainty as a great opportunity to make sweeping changes that wouldnt otherwise be acceptable to the American public. Changes the American left has been dreaming about for years. So now, under the guise of solving the crisis, Obama can pass and fund just about anything. Just take a look at his nearly trillion-dollar stimulus billand all of the outrageous earmarks that were wedged into it by Congress as the price of passage.

And its not just the economy: Obama has virtually ended the war on terror. His administration doesnt even utter the words. In recent testimony before Congress, Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano actually referred to man-caused disasters, pointedly avoiding the word terrorism. 1 Obamas appointments to the Justice Department have been people who are determined to root out, investigate, and expose not the terrorists themselves but those who protect us from them. Guantnamo has become a resource center for terrorists; a new one is freed every week. And Obama is reversing our long-term commitment to Israeland instead giving almost a billion dollars to Hamas.

Lets face it: his policies are a catastrophe, and we need to stop him.

Its also time to take our country back from the Democratic Congress, which has undergone an embarrassing transformation from a do-nothing body into a rubber-stamp annex of the Obama White House: 535 elected officials who didnt even bother to read the details before they authorized almost a trillion dollars in stimulus spending that their constituents will have to pay for. A Democratic Congress that, in the middle of the gravest financial disaster since the Great Depression, bargained for billions in additional outrageous earmark spending programs to please their contributors and lobbyist friends, without a look back at the needs of their constituents. Just to whet your appetite (or, should we say, spoil it), here are a few of the worst expenditures of taxpayer money contained in that stimulus bill:

$200,000 to fund a tattoo removal clinic in California2

$190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Wyoming3

$2,192,000 for the Center for Grape Genetics in Geneva, NY4

$1,791,000 to fund Swine Odor & Manure Management Research in Iowa5

The malfeasance of the Congress is in itself a catastrophe. We need to clean house (and Senate) and replace the self-serving automatons with elected officials who genuinely understand that their jobtheir only purposeis to serve the people who elect them, not the people who pay for their campaigns. People who understand that they, too, will be thrown out if we see more of the same. Its about time we had representatives in Washington who root for the people back home, instead of conspiring against them with their generous lobbyist pals.

On a recent episode of Glenn Becks Fox News show, an organizer of a tea party protest in St. Louis indicated that members of Congress had been invited to the event in order to give them a chance to meet with their board of directorsthe voters who elected them and who should be able to advise them about the needs of the district. She had it right. Thats how it should be, and its a good way to think about Congress: we hire them, we pay them, and they should be accountable to us. Unfortunately, most of them dont think that way at all. The only boards of directors that our representatives routinely meet with are the corporate ones, who decide who their political action committees will contribute to.

We desperately need to take back Congress and make it accountable to us, the votersnot the banks, credit card companies, defense contractors, and other special interests that have been running the show for way too long.

Can we do it? Well, to quote our president: Yes, we can!

Theres a lot more we can do to make Congress more accountable and more constituent-friendly. One important step would be to work hard to keep the political dynasties from taking up space in Congress. Its not just that its usually their family name recognition that gets them elected; its that the dynastic politicians come with a special kind of baggage: generations of hangers-on, people who have been given favors and jobs over the years who watch out for them and make it difficult for insurgents to take them on successfully at the polls. You know the names were talking about: Kennedy, Dodd, Clinton, Dole, to name a few.