Catastrophe - Dick Morris [4]
And will our doctors be free to treat us as they wish, or will they have to check with Washington to find out what medications are approved and which procedures they can offer?
Will we be free to listen to talk radio as it explores alternatives to socialism, or will it have been forced off the air?
At our workplace, will we be coerced into joining unions that represent the Democratic Party but not us?
And will our country be dominated politically by a coalition of those who pay no taxes, while the rest of us are powerless to protest when the government takes two-thirds of our income?
These are the real stakes.
As John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address, “In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it.”
Nor can any of us afford to shrink from the present task, which demands our attention, our energy, our commitment, and our resolve, We, too, must welcome this challenge. And we must prove worthy of meeting it.
We need to attack Barack Obama’s socialist agenda in ways big and small. Between now and the elections of 2010, we must fight and win the special elections that will be called to fill vacancies in Congress. We need to demonstrate the revitalized power of opposition to socialism in the off-year elections in New Jersey and Virginia. And we must mobilize opinion, particularly in the districts of the marginal Democratic senators and congressmen—the frauds who run like moderates and then vote like socialists. We need to lay the basis for their defeat in 2010 and make them think twice before they vote to curtail our freedoms and give away our health care.
We must strike terror into the hearts of the Democrats in Congress who rubber-stamp Obama’s programs, so that we can slow his momentum. Those who perpetuate his radicalism must fear for their seats as we stir public anger at their actions in their districts.
Don’t worry if you don’t live in a district with an election coming soon or with a phony Democratic moderate. In a very real sense, these days we’re all in one district—our money, work, conversation, and anger carry across state and district lines. We will be heard!
And, when 2010 comes, we’ll be ready to take our country back. We will know the stakes. And we won’t be conned by a moderate-sounding president whose idea of change is the end of freedom and the dawn of socialism.
That’s not change we can believe in.
This book is a call to action. At the end of each chapter, we suggest specific actions that can help us regain our country.
Join us in this most necessary and urgent work.
In his provocative book Liberty and Tyranny, Mark Levin speaks of the “soft tyranny” of government regulation. No longer will we be blind to that threat.
Not if we work together.
To quote Obama: NOT THIS TIME.
I
HOW OBAMA IS CAUSING A CATASTROPHE
Obama’s tax increase will trigger a stock market crash and devastate the already slumping real estate industry. A selling psychology often feeds on itself and can induce a market-wide panic. So the nearer Obama gets to power the faster the markets are likely to dip. So look for a sharp downturn as election day approaches and especially in the period between a Democratic victory and inauguration day. Obama will doubtless blame the drop on the outgoing Bush administration, but it would be his own tax plans that send the markets into a tizzy.
—From Fleeced by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann written February 2008 published June 2008
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OBAMA’S WAR ON PROSPERITY
Last year, in Fleeced, we predicted the disaster in which we now find ourselves. But who could have predicted the steps Barack Obama would take to turn this disaster into a catastrophe?
President Obama pledges to bring us back to prosperity, to end the recession. But his policies are likely to