Hillary Clinton’s opponents, eager to make up the ground between their candidacies and hers’ in most national polls face a basic problem: The Democratic primary voters will not tolerate negatives. So partisan is the division in the country as the 2008 election approaches that Democrats resent it when members of their own party speak […]

Published on TheHill.com on June 20, 2007.
Anyone who wonders why Congress has a job approval rating of 23 percent, seven points lower than even Bush’s, need only look at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) failure to change the ethics of the Congress. Having pledged to make Congress full-time and put the lackadaisical members to work, […]

If Mike Bloomberg decided to run for President, he would have a strong chance of winning the election. As a social liberal and a fiscal conservative, he fits what most Americans want. And, unlike Ross Perot - the last Independent candidate for President - he is an experienced politician who has succeeded in handling the […]

Published on FoxNews.com on June 14, 2007.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) has handed Republican lawmakers a golden (literally) opportunity to end earmarking during the current session of Congress. (In our new book, Outrage, we highlight how abuse of earmarking costs taxpayers $64 billion — three times what it was just a few […]

Published on TheHill.com on June 13, 2007.
The past week has very possibly been the key turning point in the drive to cripple the Iranian government and force it to back off its nuclear weapons program. Uncovered by the mainstream media, a courageous and far-sighted effort by Reagan’s assistant secretary of defense, Frank Gaffney, to force […]

Dick Morris’ ‘08 Play-By-Play Analysis
Volume 1, #13
June 13, 2007
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EDWARDS AND, ROMNEY SHOW STRENGTH IN IOWA POLLS —
BUT WILL IT LAST?
RUDY SHOWS ALARMING WEAKNESS IN EARLY STATES
An average of the last five national polls shows a familiar pattern.  In the Democratic Party, Hillary is […]

Bush’s visit to Capitol Hill to push his immigration reform bill has, in effect, transformed the vote on the bill into the American equivalent of a British confidence vote. In a parliamentary country, he would have to resign if he lost the vote. Here, he will stay but be slowly twisting in the […]

Bush is now slowly twisting in the wind, disregarded by the Democrats, disliked by the country, and increasingly disdained by his own party. The immigration bill defeat shows that all three are in play.