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Dick Morris
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 28
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New York City
New York
Richard S. Morris
Richard Samuel Morris
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As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
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The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.
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Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave the labor force and He has cut illegal immigration by casting the United States into a permanent job shortage. Some achievements!
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The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.
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The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the I'll raise your taxes reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.
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The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.
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We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.
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I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.
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... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.
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Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.
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Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.
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Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
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The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.
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The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.
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There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.
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The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them can't be derided as a sop to the rich.
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If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.
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Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.
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In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.
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Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the UN's going to take over' - well, they're beginning to have a case.
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