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Dick Morris, a former political adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of
2010: Take Back America.
Dick Morris, the President of Vote.com, was President Clinton's chief strategist and advisor in the 1996 campaign. Dick Morris has handled the campaigns of a large number of American politicians including Trent Lott, William Weld, Pete Wilson and a whole lot of others. Dick Morris is now a commentator on the Fox News Channel and writes a weekly column in the New York Post. Dick Morris has written four recent books: Behind the Oval Office, The New Prince, Vote.com and Power Plays.
Eileen McGann is an attorney and former public interest lobbyist. She serves as the CEO of Vote.com.
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Dec 23, 2010)
With the new Republican power in Washington, it is doubly
important to keep a close eye on the doings of GOP senators and
congressmen to spot those who are... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Dec 15, 2010)
Moving to the center is not a two-dimensional process. It has a third dimension -- the difference between strength and weakness. In the course of coming in from the cold of... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Dec 11, 2010)
White House aides are anxious to portray the deal Obama cut with the Republicans over the extension of the George W. Bush tax cuts as a shrewd move to the center. It was... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Dec 08, 2010)
Republicans gnashed their teeth in frustration as the national tide of GOP resurgence washed up against the massive Democratic fortresses in Nevada, Washington state,... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Dec 04, 2010)
As a result of the massive Republican victories last month, Republicans in statehouses all over America have the happy duty of redrawing congressional district... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Dec 01, 2010)
The Wikileaks documents show that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has, as Voltaire said about the Bourbon kings of France, learned nothing and forgotten... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Nov 24, 2010)
Does President Obama plan to move to the center in response to his overwhelming rejection at the polls on Nov. 2? No way! Instead, he is moving to implement, through... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Nov 20, 2010)
Is Barack Obama a socialist? A Muslim? Anti-American?
Pro-Palestinian? Or just a man who is right sometimes and wrong most of
the time? Bill O'Reilly opts for the second... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Nov 17, 2010)
As the Senate Republican Conference moves to ban earmarking by the chamber's Republicans, the next question arises: What about the House? Will the new, young... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Nov 13, 2010)
Democrats do not forgive defeat very easily. In the week after his "shellacking" in the midterm elections, Democratic approval of Obama's performance as president dropped... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Nov 06, 2010)
Now that President Obama has experienced the same baptism of fire as Bill Clinton did in the midterm elections, the obvious question is whether he will move to the center in... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Nov 01, 2010)
Signs of an unmistakable Republican trend are brightening the chances of a GOP takeover of the U.S. Senate. A recent Rasmussen poll showed Republican Dino Rossi... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Oct 27, 2010)
As congressmen and senators face the electorate next week, millions of votes will turn on one simple question: Did he (she) take the pledge? The pledge to repeal Obamacare.... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Oct 20, 2010)
A fundamental change is gripping the Republican grass roots as they animate the GOP surge to a major victory in the 2010 elections. No longer do evangelical or... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Oct 13, 2010)
With the Internet, we have all become fixated on that day's polling, following the most minute changes in the swing districts on Realclearpolitics.com. But we are... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Oct 11, 2010)
The mainstream media is peddling the line that the Democrats are staging a comeback, slicing Republican leads. It is absolute nonsense. A close review of polling in every... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Oct 06, 2010)
As hard as pollsters try, it is almost impossible to glean a sample of actual likely voters in an off-year election. Particularly this year, it is difficult to distinguish... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Oct 04, 2010)
Just as when the Republican establishment wrote off Scott Brown's effort to capture "Ted Kennedy's" seat in the Senate, the Washington Republicans may be underestimating... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Sep 29, 2010)
Thanks to the leadership of President Obama, House Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Reid, the Democratic Party is facing the biggest defeat in bi-elections in the... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Sep 25, 2010)
Everything may change in 2010 in the Empire State. From a blue state bystander, New York may emerge as the epicenter of a political earthquake. It may elect a... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Sep 22, 2010)
The MSNBC cameras unwittingly -- and probably unwillingly -- captured a Joe the Plumber moment during Monday's town hall meeting called by President Obama to discuss... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Sep 18, 2010)
This week's primary victories of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware and Joe DioGuardi in New York illustrate how the tea party is cleansing the Republican Party... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Sep 11, 2010)
Has the Democratic presidential primary of 2012 started already? Is Hillary Clinton beginning to position herself for a challenge to her boss? Yesterday,... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Sep 09, 2010)
The magnitude of the catastrophe facing the Democratic Party in the fall elections is only gradually becoming clear to the leaders of both parties. The Democrats will lose... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Sep 01, 2010)
It gets tiresome hearing the conventional wisdom say that the Democrats will likely keep control of the Senate. Far from it.
To gain control, Republicans... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 28, 2010)
Don't confuse the dramatic swell of the Republican tide that is becoming increasingly evident to the pundits of the country with party trend. Right before Election... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 25, 2010)
Attention GOP candidates: There is no need, this year, to load up negative ads with adjectives painting your opponents as evil big spenders in the thrall of the... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 23, 2010)
There is no need, this year, to load up negative ads with adjectives painting your opponents as evil, big spenders in the thrall of the DC establishment. The simple facts of... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 21, 2010)
The proposed mosque near to ground zero is not really a religious institution. It would be -- as many mosques throughout the nation are -- a terrorist recruitment,... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 19, 2010)
For a decade, the left owned the streets. Subsidized by George Soros and energized by the Bill Clinton impeachment in the '90s and the Iraq war since, it dominated... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 18, 2010)
For a decade, the left owned the streets. Subsidized by George Soros and energized by the Bill Clinton impeachment in the '90s and the Iraq war since, it dominated the... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 18, 2010)
With Republican prospects looking ever better for this fall, the House Democratic Campaign Committee and the PACs that follow its lead face tough triage decisions: Who will... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 17, 2010)
As the Republican wave sweeps America, endangering more and more Democratic Congressmen, the House Democratic Campaign Committee and the PACs that follow its lead face tough... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 12, 2010)
During the early Clinton years -- 1993 and 1994 -- the first couple vacationed in Martha's Vineyard hobnobbing with celebrities and cruising on Ted Kennedy's yacht. The... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 07, 2010)
As we suggested in our recent column, the new Gallup/USA Today poll confirms that Barack Obama's ratings have collapsed as a result of the WikiLeaks release of Afghan... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Aug 04, 2010)
Gene Morris was a force of nature. Strong, dynamic, energetic and industrious, but also tender, loving, loyal, mentoring and creative. He died on Saturday, July 24, 2010,... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jul 31, 2010)
When Judge Susan Bolton granted an injunction halting the enforcement of key provisions of the Arizona immigration enforcement law, she ruled in favor of the... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jul 28, 2010)
The leaked Afghan war documents will prove politically devastating to President Obama, hitting him in his most vulnerable place -- his liberal base.
Having already lost... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jul 24, 2010)
Whenever race is mentioned, it hurts Barack Obama's presidency. The very basis of his presidency is that he is the post-racial president. Now he finds himself knee-deep into... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jul 21, 2010)
Having worked with Elena Kagan at the Bill Clinton White House, I was inclined to see her as a political moderate, worthy of support as the best one could expect from... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jul 17, 2010)
The very basis of Barack Obama's entire political career has been the assertion that he is one of the first examples of a post-racial politician. He consciously... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jul 14, 2010)
Any president facing a recession has a basic conundrum to resolve: If he doesn't try to make people believe that a recovery is in progress, nobody will. But if... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jul 13, 2010)
The United Kingdom, the mother of all democracies, is about to change its political system in fundamental ways -- changes that will spell disaster for the nation and for its... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jul 10, 2010)
The increasing consensus that we are entering a "double dip" recession is seeping into the conventional wisdom, posing a further obstacle to Obama's attempts to keep control... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jul 03, 2010)
When Obama could have passed comprehensive immigration reform -- when he still had 60 Senate Democrats -- he didn't lift a finger to push it. Now that he can't... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jun 30, 2010)
It's one thing to say that President Obama's administration showed its ineptitude and mismanagement in its handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It is quite another... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jun 26, 2010)
Why is President Obama suing to invalidate the Arizona law on illegal immigration? Why is he incurring the enmity of even his own Democratic congressmen from the... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jun 23, 2010)
Many say that the situation in Greece is a harbinger of what is coming to the United States. They are right. But first it will come to states like New York, California... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jun 19, 2010)
To the left, the oil spill is not an index of presidential competence or an issue in the political sphere. It is a daily gushing of poison into the Earth's waters... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jun 16, 2010)
Jon Leibowitz, chairman of Barack Obama's Federal Trade Commission, is at the epicenter of a quiet movement to subsidize news organizations, a first step toward... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jun 12, 2010)
Ever since the passage of the 19th Amendment permitted women suffrage, feminists have anticipated a sea change in our politics. When the women's movement of the... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jun 09, 2010)
The drop in the stock market (now about 1,000 points on the Dow) is a graphic indication of the stark fact that we are entering the infamous double dip of the recession, long... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jun 09, 2010)
The drop in the stock market (now about 1,000 points on the Dow) is a graphic indication of the stark fact that we are entering the infamous double dip of the recession,... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jun 05, 2010)
We now know that Obama’s Deputy Chief of Staff, called Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in September, 2009, to offer him one of three enumerated jobs if only he would... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (May 31, 2010)
The inevitable outcome of the Greek financial crisis - soon to be followed by comparable events in Portugal, Spain and probably Italy - will be the collapse of the Euro and... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (May 26, 2010)
Rep. Joe Sestak, the winner of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, says quite openly and repeatedly that he was offered a job by the White House if he would drop... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (May 22, 2010)
President Obama has taken the United States one more giant step toward socialism by ramming through the Senate his financial regulation bill.
The bill authorizes the... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (May 19, 2010)
The message of the May 18th primaries is that it is open season on incumbents. In Pennsylvania, Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa) lost decisively to Congressman Joe Sestak... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (May 15, 2010)
Behind the scenes, the chances of a GOP takeover of the U.S. Senate increased in the past two weeks with key developments in pivotal states.
Already,... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (May 12, 2010)
When the European Union voted to put up a $1 trillion fund to bail out indebted countries in the Eurozone, it implicitly rejected the alternative, which was to... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (May 08, 2010)
Why is Barack Obama vilifying Fox News? Why does Harry Reid push an immigration bill he knows can't pass? Why won't Chuck Schumer compromise on regulatory... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (May 05, 2010)
In their desperation, President Obama and senators with large Latino populations in their states (like Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.) are seeking to polarize... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Apr 24, 2010)
When conservatives like Neal Boortz proposed the "fair tax" (a levy on consumption, not on income), we should have known that the Barack Obama left would seize on... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Apr 21, 2010)
How odd that when the president's largest corporate donor, Goldman Sachs, gets indicted, it is seen in the wonderful world of Washington as catalyzing... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Apr 17, 2010)
We predict Republicans will takeover both Houses of Congress. The question is: Once they achieve power, what will they do with it?
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Apr 10, 2010)
If any nation wants to attack the United States with chemical, biological or electromagnetic pulse weapons, it need not fear nuclear retaliation as long as... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Apr 07, 2010)
Stanley Greenberg and James Carville claim that the Republican Party has peaked too soon. Incredibly, Greenberg says, "When we look back on this, we're... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Apr 03, 2010)
The second half of Karl Rove's memoir, "Courage and Consequences," you've already read if you have followed the intricate and specific defenses the Bush... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Mar 31, 2010)
Why is President Obama so obviously humiliating Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu? Why is Secretary of State Clinton negating everything she said when... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Mar 27, 2010)
Scott Murphy of New York, Suzanne Kosmas and Alan Boyd of Florida, Betsy Markey of Colorado, Dennis Kucinich and John Boccieri of Ohio and Glenn Nye of Virginia -- a partial... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Mar 24, 2010)
Let's begin our reaction to the passage of Obamacare by remembering Winston Churchill's famous formulation with which he introduced his war memoirs:
... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Mar 20, 2010)
If the House Democratic majority passes Obama's health care proposals, one of two things will happen by Election Day, 2010 -- and neither one will be... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Mar 17, 2010)
To date, the only area in which we have found ourselves in agreement with President Obama was over his announced intention to enforce strict and elevated... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Mar 10, 2010)
And now the House Democrats line up at the instruction of their blind commanders for a final charge into glory as they battle to foist a health care system on a country that... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Mar 08, 2010)
All aspects of President Obama's Chicago-style tactics are on display as he cajoles, bullies and bribes the House to pass his health care... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Feb 24, 2010)
One out of 10 Republican congressman is a doctor and two GOP senators -- Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and John Barraso of Wyoming -- also practiced medicine before... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Feb 17, 2010)
One of my favorite quotes about politics comes from Henry Kissinger in his book "Years of Upheaval," his memoir of the Ford presidency:
"A... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Feb 13, 2010)
When President Obama's leading counter-terrorism staff member, John Brennan, says that "politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Feb 10, 2010)
President Obama has so lowered expectations for the Republican Party that if they come to the health care summit he has called at the White House with concrete... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Feb 06, 2010)
As he professes to want to reduce the dangerous budget deficit, Obama brings to mind the hapless engineers at Toyota who find that their vehicles... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Feb 03, 2010)
President Obama was disingenuous when he said that the budget deficit he faced "when I walked in the door" of the White House was $1.3 trillion. He went on to say... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jan 30, 2010)
When President Bill Clinton faced Congress in 1995, after first losing any hope of health care reform and then control of Congress, he used his State of... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jan 27, 2010)
Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One, but only if it really wants to change.
Any president, at any time, can... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jan 22, 2010)
A squishy, misguided, weak-kneed liberalism has emerged in Hillary Clinton's comments about the kind of sanctions that would work best in halting Iran's nuclear program. ... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jan 20, 2010)
On the rude arch that spanned the flood
In the April breeze their flag unfurled
Here the embattled farmer stood
And... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jan 16, 2010)
A squishy, misguided, weak-kneed liberalism has emerged in Hillary Clinton's comments about the kind of sanctions that would work best in halting Iran's nuclear program.... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jan 13, 2010)
Pessimism is no more attractive in a party leader than it is in a high school cheerleader. And, in the case of Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele, it is... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jan 09, 2010)
Other than the H1N1 virus, the most contagious disease in our nation's capital is retirement. It is catching. The more Democrats that quit, the more... more
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Jan 06, 2010)
The very public way in which the existence of a center-right in the Democratic Party proved to be a mirage has done more to undermine the party's chances for... more