Review of Dick Morris' "Catastrophe"

Catastrophe: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests are Transforming. . .A Downturn into a Crash, a Recession into a Depression, and a Disaster into a CATASTROPHE . . and How to Stop Them
by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Dick Morris has seen politics and Presidents up close for decades: he was Bill Clinton's political consultant for twenty years, and is now a regular political commentator on Fox News and author of six New York Times bestsellers. In his latest blockbuster, Morris and his longtime collaborator Eileen McGann reveal the ugly hard-Left goals of the Obama administration and its henchmen in Congress and special interest groups. They fearlessly take on a barrage of hot-button pocketbook issues -- from oil prices, real estate, and the faltering state of the economy to the ongoing corruption in Washington.
Morris and McGann examine the full damaging agenda of the Leftist ideologue in the White House, examining his war on prosperity, his ill-starred bank bailout, and the looming disasters of his mortgage plan and his nationalization of the health care industry. Even more ominously, they reveal Obama's blueprint for political domination, and his recklessly naïve signals that the War on Terror is over. Naïve -- or worse: Morris and McGann also reveal that Obama's Administration has already sent aid to the murderous jihad terrorist group Hamas, which has celebrated bloodthirsty attacks on Israeli civilians.

But Morris and McGann don't blame Obama alone for the coming catastrophe: the Far Left Congress of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid comes in for its fair share of the blame as well. Morris and McGann trace how Chris Dodd and Charlie Rangel morphed from idealistic reformers to privileged insiders, and how Ted Kennedy, Jr., the Senator's son, makes skillful use of his illustrious name. They also tear the cover off the shadowy world of stealth lobbyists: the former Congressional leaders who secretly influence federal policies and spending.

Special interests come in for special scrutiny in Catastrophe. Morris and McGann explain how our banks and investment firms are opening the door to Muslim extremist domination; how airlines imprison you on the runway; the silent catastrophe of post-traumatic stress disorder in our military; and why college is so expensive these days. Most outrageous of all, they give the details of the appalling goof of Bill Clinton that has cost the American people sixty billion dollars!


Heading toward catastrophe -- and how we can head it off:

How Obama's principles of income redistribution, increased spending, and heavy taxation for the rich are foreign to the American traditions of democracy, independence, and limited government

Obama's fiendish scheme to create a dual tax system: those who pay huge sums and those who pay nothing at all but are subsidized by the increased taxes of those who do

Obama's appointments to the Justice Department: people determined to root out, investigate, and expose not the terrorists themselves, but those who protect us from them

What we can and must do in order to make Congress more accountable and more constituent-friendly

Chris Dodd: how the Senate has ignored or failed to follow up credible evidence of his corruption, including payroll padding, perks for friendly lobbyists, and expensive freebies from "friends" with an agenda

How Obama's behavior in office suggests that he has a flawed—and sometimes arrogant—approach to government

Obama's strategy for the future: finance the American government by raising taxes on the politically impotent rich, hit them hard at the tax office, and then outvote them on Election Day

How neither party has a monopoly on corruption—and both could use a thorough house cleaning

The silent centerpiece of Obama's health care program: his secret plan to ration health care, giving it to some and denying it to others

The people that free Americans need to pressure the most in order to derail Obama's headlong rush toward socialism

How Obama camouflaged his hard-Left, socialist domestic agenda behind the single overshadowing position of opposition to the war in Iraq

Why Obama wants the public-private bank partnerships to fail—and how he plans to use that failure to justify nationalization of the banks

Privileged special interests: how five major airlines went to court to block you from having any rights at all when you're trapped in their planes on airport runways for hours and hours at a time

How a lifetime of debt slavery awaits all too many college graduates once they shed their caps and gowns -- and yet the high cost of college is entirely avoidable

Islamic Shariah Finance: the immense damage it could do to the United States, the international Jewish community, and Israel -- and how it could destabilize our entire capitalist system (or what is left of it when Obama gets through)

How, as President Obama dismantles the war on terror, he has one crucial accomplice in this unilateral disarmament: the news media

Obama's biggest weakness -- and how patriotic Americans can exploit it in order to take America back
Can Obama cash in on class resentments in the United States that mirror European politics? Is the American Dream dead? The answer is a decisive NO! The dream is far from dead. But this book is a call to action: we need to attack Barack Obama's socialist agenda in ways big and small. At the end of each chapter, Morris and McGann offer specific actions that can help us regain our country. Catastrophe: we can head it off -- but only if we act on the guidance in this book now, before it's too