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. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:01:00 GMT Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ President Obama's failure to support America's allies in the Middle East and his dithering endorsement of chaos in the region will send oil and gasoline prices skyrocketing, triggering a massive bout of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/03/02/obamas_legacy_stagflation 7e232c42-d68a-4cd3-8ffd-c877c4b44d51 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:01:00 GMT While the federal Environmental Protection Administration is about to impose regulations and taxes on carbon emissions by executive fiat -- in the name of stopping global climate change -- the United States... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/02/19/us_has_cut_emissions__without_cap_and_tax 8249a9af-1ec1-4bf3-a716-2e0e7e917006 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:01:00 GMT So what happens if the cuts proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., prove unacceptable to the Senate and the president? What if there... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/02/16/a_budget_deadlock_will_defeat_obama,_but_a_compromise_might_save_him 3a54ba14-7f23-4633-a700-376e2b680cd5 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:01:00 GMT Now is the time for the House Republicans to challenge President Obama to cut spending by voting to slash non-defense discretionary spending by the full $100 billion they promised in their 2010 campaign! The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/02/12/$100_billion_in_cuts_go_for_it 2936367b-5fe2-40eb-a25f-d75ae5c6b226 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:01:00 GMT I know we predicted Republican Senate control in 2010. Republicans did gain seven seats and came within four of winning control. Razor thin defeats in Colorado and Washington and unexpected thrashings in Nevada and West... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/02/05/republicans_poised_to_win_senate fe99477e-b043-4a34-8b0a-64873761e924 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:01:00 GMT President Obama better hope that the crowds clamoring for an overthrow of the Hosni Mubarak regime really do achieve a functioning liberal democracy rather than an Iranian-style theocracy. His re-election hopes may be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/02/02/obama_egypts_hostage 001553e1-6c85-438d-88ca-eeb083368607 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:01:00 GMT When Obama started to speak about the need to improve education, upgrade our schools and attract quality teachers, an elephant appeared in the living rooms of most Americans who were watching. Obama never mentioned the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/29/did_obama_forget_about_the_teachers_union e3a1c791-3160-455b-b34e-93581568ade2 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT When state governments -- facing intractable budget problems -- come to the Republican House asking for more bailout money, most GOP congressmen are determined to speak with one voice and say "no." But where will the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/26/states_need_bankruptcy_option 74788eab-c9d2-4cd6-9c56-b880630fdfe8 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT After Tucson, Ariz., shootings, Sarah Palin's unfavorable rating in the CNN poll rose from 49 percent before the midterm elections to 56 percent now. It was not the left-wing charges that Sarah Palin had somehow incited... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/22/the_perils_of_palin c9dc1f5e-d21e-4fde-9cee-325d094547a1 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT Now for the counteroffensive. The House Republicans are pushing to repeal Obamacare. While they will doubtless succeed in the House and either fail in the Senate or face a Barack Obama veto, their decision to raise and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/19/obamacare_round_two,_awake_conservatives! 428f71e2-8646-4dda-8131-c4f6ff6026a0 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT Facing huge budget difficulties, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been showing other states how to survive -- namely, by taking on the government-employee unions. Christie's battles with the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/15/to_save_the_states,_let_em_declare_bankruptcy 5f479dca-fb2f-40a1-aec2-85d113cddf2e Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT The conventional wisdom of the media establishment that strident and outspoken political debate catalyzes violence is an absurdity. Telling people to "kill pigs" -- as the '60s radicals did -- in fact, encouraged... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/12/there_are_no_politics_in_murder 62f7acca-58b7-4294-aaaa-cef02c0c2aad Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT Every Republican member of Congress should sign the following pledge, being promulgated by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform: "I promise not to vote for any expansion of the federal debt limit unless it is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/08/no_debt_limit_expansion_without_spending_cuts! 9b7291a6-f853-4775-bffd-2b8280a3b691 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT Every Republican member of Congress should sign the following pledge, being promulgated by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform: "I promise not to vote for any expansion of the federal debt limit unless it is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/08/no_debt_limit_expansion_without_spending_cuts! 0be571be-5a2b-4739-8154-acdc77071393 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT The pas de deux between the Republican Congress and the Democratic president and Senate can get old pretty quickly. The Republican House passes repeal of Obamacare. The Senate either kills it or Obama vetoes it. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/05/how_to_defeat_obama 0a8d33fb-201f-400a-89fb-8f36ad749903 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT 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 straying from orthodoxy, seduced by power and the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/12/23/which_republicans_sold_out 91fcf030-0758-4d42-9ee1-d37a8b5d2f06 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT 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 his extreme far-left positions, the president... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/12/15/obama_the_weak 8870a728-5766-4c8f-a75f-acdd6cfc2a14 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT 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 nothing of the sort. It was surrender, pure and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/12/11/obamas_compromise_is_retreat,_not_triangulation 002d3945-3608-4cdb-a8c4-43dc4fd93b15 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT Republicans gnashed their teeth in frustration as the national tide of GOP resurgence washed up against the massive Democratic fortresses in Nevada, Washington state, Colorado and California. When they neither... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/12/08/the_republican_senate ed2b765d-0b8a-43f7-9532-852adca8f10f Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:24:16 GMT As a result of the massive Republican victories last month, Republicans in statehouses all over America have the happy duty of redrawing congressional district lines in time for the 2012 elections based on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/12/04/reapportionners_dilemma_go_for_extra_seats 33bbe080-1a11-4bae-bc8d-fd886d3d4571 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT 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 nothing. Her request that American diplomats at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/12/01/hillary_is_up_to_her_old_tricks 37f8e7ab-9ddd-4339-890b-817eeb3d8e29 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:01:00 GMT 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 executive action, two of the most controversial http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/11/24/obama_using_executive_orders_to_implement_radical_agenda 20e7a691-6552-4d6e-9aff-8e2a020da386 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:01:00 GMT 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 option in his new book, "Pinheads and Patriots http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/11/20/who_is_barack_obama b70eb0e2-a936-495e-8d73-0114e293a9bd Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:01:00 GMT 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 reform Republicans that now populate the lower... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/11/17/a_house_earmarking_ban 88325906-d06f-476e-a6d5-0a7028c631f2 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:01:00 GMT 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 from 88 percent to 81 percent in the Zogby Poll,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/11/13/obama_may_face_left-wing_primary 30daee56-3396-4c58-9db5-856be2d6325e Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:01:00 GMT 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 a bid to save his presidency and win... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/11/06/will_obama_triangulate f111dce4-6a99-4bdf-bd9c-a12e71db66eb Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:01:38 GMT 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 1 point ahead of incumbent Sen. Patty Murray... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/11/01/shift_in_washington_state_boosts_gop_senate_hopes d4512ca0-684b-4a6b-9360-348cbd890420 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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. In recent weeks, Democratic candidates have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/10/27/take_the_pledge,_or_walk_the_plank 037ae26b-a504-4d77-b962-932a33f2539f Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:01:01 GMT 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 social issues dominate the Republican ground... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/10/20/the_new_gop_safe_for_libertarians,_but_only_fiscal_hawks_need_apply 1e674192-7fc7-48a2-8a06-bc06ead4715b Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 overstating the importance of polling in determining... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/10/13/turnout,_not_polling,_will_determine_2010_outcome 3f066a1f-df00-4eb2-8fff-6aec58a43f05 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 close House race in the nation indicates that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/10/11/republican_trend_continues a3e08fdf-700c-40aa-b886-1645d30084bb Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:33:16 GMT 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 between dutiful voters who say they are likely http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/10/06/the_turnout_gap fd77629d-ba04-4f01-a5d0-f8955f4ecd1d Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 the number of seats the GOP can capture in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/10/04/the_dangers_of_under-confidence c3cf5e23-fc42-4b81-8e4f-b171e915d2f6 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:45:19 GMT 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 past 110 years. The modern record is a loss... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/09/29/the_obliteration_of_a_generation_of_democrats 483f7837-c631-476f-ad6b-e5efce023730 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:00:30 GMT 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 Republican governor, topple the Democratic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/09/25/a_new_york_earthquake 960bac98-ae2a-482f-9d60-a49748cd46db Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 the economy. Expressing the frustration of te http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/09/22/move_over_joe_the_plumber__for_velma_the_cfo 5a32702c-9709-4934-9086-f308f5aa46af Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 and installing true believers over professional... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/09/18/the_myth_of_conservative_vulnerability 2c7032fa-da60-4756-b13e-0a995890e0e9 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:01:00 GMT Has the Democratic presidential primary of 2012 started already? Is Hillary Clinton beginning to position herself for a challenge to her boss? Yesterday, Hillary fired what may have been the first shot: ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/09/11/hillarys_first_shot bb2040b8-f663-4690-9d94-51ae27e99b72 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 both the Senate and the House. They will... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/09/09/an_epic_dem_disaster d5e38bb8-a14d-4172-b708-8e447e030983 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 must win 10 new seats. An analysis of the latest http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/09/01/how_republicans_will_win_the_senate db5fda64-fb98-4fea-89bc-ffeb3e3738ab Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 Day, the numbers will get even better and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/28/party_trend_has_yet_to_kick_in e653c69e-502d-435f-be6b-0643023b566d Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 Washington establishment. The simple facts of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/25/advice_to_gop_candidates_avoid_adjectives,_nouns_are_good_enough 04335d70-be8b-4a8e-887b-da50c22528d8 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:04:00 GMT 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 your opponents' voting records are enough to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/23/advice_to_gop_candidates_avoid_adjectives,_nounds_are_good_enough 12b7b23e-79c3-41e6-acee-25396d1d0ebd Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:07:37 GMT 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, indoctrination and training center. It is not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/21/ground_zero_mosque_the_real_issue 3b6a8f25-2430-4a9b-b8b4-269eab608900 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 Internet and grass-roots campaigning. Michae http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/19/the_tea_party_rescues_america b147006c-2fec-4450-87c9-e55b0bf25bda Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:08:38 GMT 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 Internet and grass-roots campaigning. Michael... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/18/the_tea_party_rescues_america 82091166-0069-4991-89f4-16f8aada50c5 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:47:41 GMT 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 they fund? Republicans need 39 seats to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/18/will_dems_risk_a_rout d2f76202-fdd4-41d6-90c4-6a719eaa445c Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:46:24 GMT 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 triage decisions. Whom will they fund? ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/17/house_dems_face_tough_triage_choices 6f763dda-35ff-46d2-a271-ad986fc5ddf9 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 result was that during each of the two summers, as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/12/michelles_travels_will_trigger_backlash 19e8a8b3-2c99-4ef5-800d-a3baa3d882b8 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:01 GMT 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 War memos. Down from 46 percent in the most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/08/07/wikileaks_afghan_papers_killing_obama a028644b-45d9-441a-b5b2-c60da49300ed Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:01:00 GMT