http://www.dickmorris.com/blog The Official Site of Dick Morris Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:48:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Click Here To Donate To The New Ad Against Obamacare! Ad paid for by the League of American Voters. Contributions to the League of American Voters are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Contributions from individuals and corporations are permitted by law and welcome. Thank you! http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/11/06/donate-to-the-new-ad-campaign-against-obamacare/ Published on TheHill.com November 4, 2009 As Santayana said, “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.” Congressional Democrats: Take note! Are the elections of 2009 precursors of the same kind of massive partisan upheaval in Congress that we experienced in 1994? The historical data says yes, they are. http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/11/05/1993-redux-confronts-dems/ Published in the New York Post on November 4, 2009 Chris Christie's gutsy win in New Jersey puts the arrogant big spender Jon Corzine in his place. But it is the election in Virginia that probably has more to say to marginal Democratic congressmen considering how to vote on health-care reform. Obviously, ... http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/11/04/a-deathblow-to-obamacare/ Published on TheHill.com on November 3, 2009 After more than a decade of public healthcare with mandatory coverage, so many Canadian doctors have left the practice and so many young people have entered other fields that Canada ranks 26th of 28 developed nations in its ratio of physicians to population. Once, ... http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/11/04/canadas-healthcare-disaster/ Published on TheHill.com on October 27, 2009 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had two problems. How would he get the healthcare bill out of the Senate Finance Committee without revealing the glaring potential fissures in his party over the public option on healthcare? And how could he lend a veneer ... http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/10/29/reids-bait-and-switch-tactics/ How can the government pretend that it can manage, overhaul, streamline, and reform the health care system in the United States when it can't even deliver enough flu shots to prevent a pandemic? We have seen the H1N1 virus coming for over a year. It is no surprise that much ... http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/10/28/flu-shot-shortage-shows-govt-incompetence/ 1. Be sure to write via snail mail, no email, send it to them with a stamp on a dead tree! 2. House members can be addressed by name at: House Office Building Washington DC, 20515 Senators at: Senate Office Building Washington DC, 20510 http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/10/27/writing-to-your-senators-and-congressmen-about-healthcare/ The more fiscal details of the health care bills emerge, the more appalling they seem. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a broad provision taxing all manner of medical devices. This tax includes such frivolous luxuries as pacemakers, stents, artificial heart valves, defibrillators, automated wheelchairs, mechanized artificial limbs, ... http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/10/26/obama-taxes-pacemakers-heart-valves/ Even as Obama's proposals for health care changes attracted two key swing votes in the Senate Finance Committee (Republican Olympia Snowe and Democrat Blanche Lincoln), public opinion is turning ever more hostile to the proposed changes. Inside the beltway, the plan looks unstoppable. Outside it, the legislation looks ... http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/10/23/will-obamacare-pass/ Published on TheHill.com on October 20, 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has fallen for Iran's line that it is not developing nuclear weapons, but only wants the ability to develop one to achieve its place in the sun among the great nations of the earth. In an interview on a ... http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/10/21/iran-cons-hillary-on-nukes/