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“Congressman Jim Matheson, endangered species – a Utah Democrat – succeeded in getting his brother Scott appointed to a federal judgeship. Matheson voted against Obamacare when it first passed the House. With his new-found winnings in his pocket, he now professes to be undecided.”

- Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

“I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that the single most important difference between the political left and the political right is over the questions of whether, and to what extent, “spreading the wealth around” is a proper function of government.”

- N. Gregory Mankiw

“While his job rating has remained relatively steady in recent months, hovering just below 50 percent of likely voters, his ratings in specific areas — like holding down spending, cutting the deficit, creating jobs and managing the economy — are all eroding, presaging further drops in his overall ratings.”

- Dick Morris

“Ken Rogoff of Harvard and Carmen Reinhart of Maryland have studied the impact of high levels of national debt on economic growth in the U.S. and around the world in the last two centuries…they conclude that, so long as the gross debt-GDP ratio is relatively modest, 30%-90% of GDP, the negative growth impact of higher debt is likely to be modest as well. But as it gets to 90% of GDP, there is a dramatic slowing of economic growth by at least one percentage point a year…The Obama budget takes the publicly held debt to 73% and the gross debt to 103% of GDP by 2015, over this precipice.

Mr. Obama’s fiscal strategy is more akin to the voyage of the Titanic. Let’s hope he changes course soon enough to prevent disaster.”

- MICHAEL J. BOSKIN, professor of economics at Stanford University

“It is the president’s efforts to crow about how effective he is in fighting terrorism that are helping al-Qaeda. What kind of policy is it to announce to the world that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the Nigerian terrorist who attempted to blow up a plane as it approached Detroit this past Christmas, is talking to investigators and giving them much valuable information?…While releasing this information may help Obama politically and certainly pushes back those of us who criticized him for handling the Mutallab case civilly, it provides al-Qaeda with a timely warning that we are on to their plans and that Mutallab has explained to us what they have up their sleeves. In counter-terrorism, knowing your enemy’s plans is key to thwarting them. And, if al-Qaeda knows that we are prepared, they will, obviously, change their plans.”

- Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

“Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years.”
- President Obama, January 27, 2010

1. President Obama is freezing only 13 percent of the budget for only 3 years.
2. President Obama is spending $500 billion of the $800 billion stimulus that hasn’t already been spent.
3. President Obama is spending $500 billion of the bank bailout money that the banks are paying back.

“Obama’s announced intention to freeze 13 percent of the budget for three years is a relatively minor cut. It will trim the deficit by only 3 percent over the decade.”
- Dick Morris

“For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.”

- President Obama

“Will he emulate Clinton and save his presidency by moving to the center? Certainly not before he has lost his control over Congress. It was not the defeat of healthcare that impelled Clinton’s change of course, but his defeat in the elections of 1994. Even then, it took six months to turn the battleship around. And after he loses Congress? Probably not even then. Clinton was a lifelong moderate who moved to the left when expediency dictated. Obama is a lifelong liberal who pretends to move to the center when he has to.”

- Dick Morris

“Exploiting concerns that another global meltdown might be around the corner, the Obama legislation effectively brings socialism to the United States. There’s no other term for it.”

- Dick Morris