Catastrophe - Dick Morris [52]
We can’t let that happen. We must mobilize and defeat Obama’s health care proposals. We need to get out the story about medical rationing and what that has led to in Canada. We can’t let him win this fight.
Once everyone is covered, it will be impossible to roll the plan back. The die will have been cast, and we will no longer be able to guarantee our loved ones the care they need in their hour of greatest need.
At www.dickmorris.com, we’ll be helping lead the battle to stop Obama from destroying our health care system. This is priority number one for us. Log on to the site, give us your e-mail address, and we’ll help you get involved in the fight.
We’ve been down this socialized medicine road before. And we can’t let them win this time.
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OBAMA’S BLUEPRINT FOR POLITICAL DOMINATION
To implement and sustain an agenda as aggressive and far-reaching as President Obama has proposed, it will take a permanent political upheaval in this country, not just one victory in one election. Obama knows that if he can’t use his presidency to realign America’s political parties and power centers to make them friendly to his socialist agenda, he will soon become a footnote in history—a man who attempted bold changes but failed or who passed them only to see them repealed when he lost power.
His election in 2008 opened the door to the changes he wants to make. But to keep them on the books, he must win election after election, winning two terms, keeping a leftist Congress in power, and ensuring that his successor does not reverse his policies.
To do this, he has a four-part plan to create a national political realignment:
Grant legal status and then citizenship to as many now-illegal immigrants as possible, so that they’ll vote Democratic far into the future.
Control the 2010 census, using it to overcount poor people, minorities, and other Democratic constituencies.
Change the rules of union elections to expand—vastly—the proportion of the labor force who belong to Democratic-controlled unions.
Use the powers of the Federal Communications Commission to muzzle conservative talk radio.
To defeat Obama’s program—or repeal it once it passes—we must stop each of these efforts to change our political system. Let’s begin with his plan to change, forever, the composition of the U.S. electorate.
IMMIGRATION: THE DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL PLOY
One key to Obama’s plan for a permanent liberal majority is to enfranchise large numbers of people who came to this country illegally in order to win their loyalty at the polls.
He knows that the political support of the Latino population is the jump ball that will determine political dominance for a generation.
In recent years, Hispanics’ political allegiance has shifted back and forth depending on how each party cultivated their votes. In the 2000 election, Latinos voted for Gore by thirty points. But in 2004, after four years of assiduous cultivation by George W. Bush, they split more evenly, supporting the Democratic challenger, John Kerry, by only ten points.
But then, when Bush introduced an immigration reform plan that conservative Republicans killed in Congress, Latinos’ loyalties veered sharply back to the Democrats. In 2008, they resumed their habits of 2000 and backed Obama by more than two to one (even though McCain, the Republican candidate, had sponsored the immigration reform bill).
In congressional races, the newly Democratic Latino voters were key. In largely Hispanic districts in New Mexico