It is one thing - as Rush Limbaugh has been vilified for - to say you have a desire for the president to fail, but what about accusing the president of wanting his own policies to fail?
That's what Fox News Channel's Dick Morris said on the March 25 broadcast of "Your World with Neil Cavuto." According to Morris, those who are criticizing Obama for his spending, including Daniel Hannan, who represents South East England for the Conservative Party, made famous by a YouTube video eviscerating Keynesian politics, are missing the point. Obama wants to worsen the economic conditions to expand the powers of government according to Morris.
"We are confusing in analyzing the bank bailout and in what Hannan, the other guest you had on - the British Parliamentarian, had on, was also confusing - means with ends," Morris said. "He said, for example that more spending won't solve the recession. Obama doesn't want it to. He wants the recession to permit him to do more spending, and in terms of this bank package, he knows that the public-private partnership isn't going to work. He's doing his best to kill it by all these comments."
To put it simply, Morris told "Your World," Obama wants to socialize the economy, and bank nationalization will make that possible. The former Clinton administration adviser suggested that the Obama administration was leaking details to The New York Times, disclosed in a March 25 front page story, was evidence he wanted them to fail.
"He wants to nationalize the banks," Morris said. "He wants a socialist economy. And nationalization of the banks is the best way to achieve it. And if he really wanted this cooperation, he wouldn't have his people leak a story that's the front page of The New York Times lead article today that he wants to take companies over."
According to Morris, the president is doing just enough to give the impression he attempting to salvage the economy without nationalization.
"In sending these mixed messages, he is on the one hand doing the bare minimum that he needs to do to show the people that he supports the public-private partnership, and is trying his best to avoid nationalization," Morris said. "He just can't come out and say that I'm for nationalization," Morris said. He has to come out and say, ‘I'm for doing everything short of nationalization.'"
Cavuto asked Morris about the repercussions of Obama aggressive policies - if they could impact his ability to be reelected in 2012.
"I do not think he much cares about that," Morris said. "He said something the other day that I thought was really true. They asked him about reelection. He said that if I can accomplish what I want to accomplish ..."
"He'd be a great president in four years and a mediocre one in eight," Cavuto said, finishing Morris' sentence.
The end goal Morris said was to give the federal government a stronger holder on the private sector by using a financial crisis to achieve it.
"I think he really means it," Morris said. "I think that his goal here is to dramatically increase federal spending in a host of areas and to nationalize the financial structures system. And if he can do both of those things using the recession/depression as his excuse, he's going to do it."
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~It's time
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 09:50 ET by choselife3xTo march on Washington.
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
choselife3x...
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 10:07 ET by dborschjr68Yep. It was time to do this weeks ago.
The schoolyard bully doesn't listen to reason. You cannot rationalize or protest his violence. He won't sit down with you and share his feelings. He rules his yard and preys on the ignorant and the weak, and especially upon those he knows will never tattle on him for whipping their butts. He understands one thing: his way is absolute.
Solution? Give that schoolyard bully a public beatdown, in front of everyone, and provide freedom to all the other kids who were under his reign of terror. Period.
Who's the schoolyard bully today, and how can we affect a true public beatdown that doesn't actually involve fisticuffs?
Just an observation...
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Brace yourself
For the backlash
Of your ignorance.
~I just saw where someone suggested
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 10:11 ET by choselife3xA Tea Party at Notre Dame on commencement day. Sounds like a really good idea to me. If there is one I'll go.
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
This will be foil-hatted by the Liberal attack dogs
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 09:51 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarThen again, the world was flat, the center of the universe at one time and Galileo was a "heretic".
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain
what will happen...
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 09:53 ET by jackie3What will happen after Obama is done with the banks? Communism anyone?
Alexander Hamilton: "We are a Republican government. Real liberty is
never found in the despotism or in the extremes of a Democracy."
NO!
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 10:19 ET by cvgbuckeyejackie3:
Communism, if we let them; YES!
Their problem is this: I, WE WILL NEVER LET THEM!
AND they are ALL completely clueless as to this fact; all the elected officials and their comrades; the MSM.
What will I, We do when it is required? They won't believe what would AND WILL happen next! It will exceed their worst nightmares. I,WE swore to sustain America as a free country and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, when I was in The United States Marine Corp. I,We, will never forget.
There are many, many and enough just like us.
Listen to me, Barack Hussein Obama: IT AIN'T NEVER GOIN TO HAPPEN!
I read the same thing in
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 09:56 ET by motherbeltI read the same thing in his column today at townhall.com
I like this quote from Morris on TV:
"He just can't come out and say that I'm for nationalization,.... He has to come out and say, ‘I'm for doing everything short of
nationalization."
And from his townhall columnn, the money quote mirrors that:
Obama has to oppose nationalization today in order to achieve it
tomorrow. He has to show the country and the world that he is doing all
he can to help the private sector to sort things out with government
help. (emphasis added)
That way, when he does it, he can say he had no choice.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Dick Morris is right
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 10:04 ET by R D HelmObama is moving to have the feds seize all of the banks, in the interest of "financial stability," of course. And when they have accomplished that, they will turn their attention to other private industries.
Yep, the Marxist coup that is taking place in broad daylight, right in front of God and everybody, is humming right along, totally unimpeded.
-Dave
This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.
Dick Morris is spot-on, folks...
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 10:01 ET by dborschjr68"Obama wants to worsen the economic conditions to expand the powers of government according to Morris."
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Brilliantly played, Mr. Obama. Destroy us then save us through the power and strength of your will. Crush us and then rebuild us according to the mercies of your design. We all bow to your infinite wisdom. Forgive us, Mr. Obama, for being dissenters and doubting your keen intellect and glaringly obvious love of America.
You are some piece of work, buddy.
If this concept, this concept of what Mr. Morris mentioned, seems at all plausible and quite possibly true to you as an American, then what are you really going to do about it?
Do you know why it is sickeningly easy to slaughter sheep? It's because sheep, seriously, are completely ignorant and stupid, and want to follow. They need to follow. They have no concept of thinking for themselves.
No sheep has ever stood up and said, 'Oh hell no! You are so not going to kill me, bucko! I see what you're doing, and I'm not going to accept it!' Then the sheep gets a gun, drafts a Constitution, and organizes the other sheep to oppose the tyranny of the farmer's will.
And when all the smoke clears, the sheep, now having broken the yoke of ignorance, find happiness and self-fulfillment, governing themselves apart from the farmer and his need to control them even unto death.
I'm just thinking out loud here....
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Somehow these lyrics seem
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 11:38 ET by Scuba DudeSomehow these lyrics seem apropos to what is happening.
Sheep - Pink Floyd
Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away;
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air.
You better watch out,
There may be dogs about
I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen
Things are not what they seem.
What do you get for pretending the danger's not real.
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
Now things are really what they seem.
No, this is no bad dream.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by.
With bright knives He releaseth my soul.
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places.
He converteth me to lamb cutlets,
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger.
When cometh the day we lowly ones,
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate,
Lo, we shall rise up,
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water.
Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told.
Get out of the road if you want to grow old.
"The wrOng ONE was elected"
obamanomics
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 10:15 ET by east tennessee johnWell, maybe it's starting to sink in. This guy is a dedicated, disciplined Marxist and will do evrything he can to move us towards that "workers' paradise". Since the liberal, white guilt MSM never really vetted this comrade, why should we be surprised? He's never read a book about market economics that wasn't a critique or criticism; his entire life his mentoring or important relationships were with communists; anti-American academics(who, without our "despicable" system, would be unemployed, institutionalized, or stood up against the wall),socialists, or purveyors of black liberation theology with its Marxist slant and racial anger. He can care less if he's a 1 term President as long as he institutionalizes the programs he believes moves us towards that "paradise", He's trying to intall the next step of the so called Great Society in 1 hyperactive legislative sweep. Exactly how many of those LBJ programs have ever been defunded or terminated? Comrade O knows this and the sooner he and the Dems can get them on the books, they think the better. Hyperinflation? What's that? Reduced growth means a smaller opportunity for the achieving class to rip everyone else off, right? Of, course, as in all AUTHORITIAN states, we're all technically equal, just some of us are more equal than others.
Obama *wants* to collapse nation, government, economic system
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 12:43 ET by VinceP1974What part of this is confusing to some of you people?
Obama is a soldier of Saul Alinsky. Alinsky was a Communist who advocated for his Radicals to manipulate peoples and systems into *wanting* a Marxist revolution. To conceal their true motivations and deviously change the society.
This is also related to the Cloward-Piven method of revolution by getting as many people dependent upon the Government and in the process overloading all social systems until it all collapses and chaos ensues.
This is what Obama is doing. He is deliberately trying to demoralize the public, make the govt appear as imcompetent as possible while also enslaving as many people to it as possible, adn destroying our economic system.
I honestly believe Obama
Fri, 03/27/2009 - 00:58 ET by SmorgasbordI honestly believe Obama wants to be KING, not president. The USA is a FREE society, and he will never be KING in a REPUBLIC (the USA is not a democracy). I believe Obama and his people are creating problems and taking advantage of existing problems to make them worse so that the USA will fail.
Obama sees a friend as anyone who will help him in his quest to gain his crown. A strong military would fight back if someone tried to take over the USA, so he is reducing it and demoralize it. He sees them as the enemy. He also wants to start a "Civilian National Security Force" that is as strong as the military, and funded like the military. Remember when King Obama was campaigning he promised he would start one? What did Adolf Hitler call his?
Obama has shown his contempt for leaders of our friends in other free countries, and aligning himself with leaders of dictatorships. This tells me a lot about what his intentions are.
Obama knows who HIS friends are, and they aren't people in a free society. They will not VOLUNTARILY help him to become King Obama. You align yourself with those who you respect most. Obama respects getting what he wants at any cost.
I think Obama wants the USA to fail and be taken over. Obama thinks the ones who take it over will be so thankful for his help that they will make him KING. Then he can say, "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED." Now I understand why he couldn't keep from laughing during his 60 Minutes interview. He knows they are helping him become King Obama, and will be subject to HIS rule soon.
Uh yup. This is why I get so bent out of shape when people
Fri, 03/27/2009 - 02:00 ET by thebutlerdiditsay Obama is stupid. I have been saying a long, long time, he's not stupid, he knows exactly what he's doing. It may be in the most tone-deaf, ham-fisted way possible, but he had a plan, and things are going directly according to plan. The problem is, people get lulled into a false sense of security, like now the stock market is going up. People say, Ah, Obama is fixing things, crisis averted. But the problems haven't been solved, and until they are, we are all just living on borrowed time. The big crash hasn't even begun to occur, but it's a coming..................
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke