So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann's latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security.
At a time when we needed a pragmatic centrist to lead us out of recession, we got a doctrinaire socialist who wants to use the crisis to put the government in charge of the economy and enact European socialism here in the United States.
Cars, banks—what's next? He will keep at it until Washington governs every major business in America and sets all our salaries.
It's a catastrophe.
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann saw the meltdown coming. In their book Outrage, they called out the house of cards that was Fannie Mae. In Fleeced, they went after the credit card companies, the subprime mortgage lenders, and the hedge fund billionaires who conspired to wreck the economy—and Barack Obama, whose policies, they predicted last summer, would "trigger a stock market crash."
Now, in Catastrophe, Morris and McGann take a hard look at America in free fall—and at how Obama is transforming a vulnerable America into a socialist state.
They tell the truth about Obama and his radical policies:
He will destroy our health care system so that no one gets adequate care.
He designed his bank rescue plan to pave the way for nation-alization of the banks and socialization of the economy.
He firmly believes in government control of our major industries—he's already commandeered the banks and the automobile industry.
He plans to reshape the political landscape to keep the left in power for decades by cooking the census, enfranchising illegal immigrants, muzzling talk radio, and coercing workers into unions.
He is attacking those who fight terrorism while letting the terrorists go free.
He gives aid to Hamas while Shariah Law threatens to take over America.
He has repealed the Declaration of Independence and put us under a worldwide, European-dominated financial regulatory system.
But Obama is not working alone. Morris and McGann spell out how Congress is complicit:
How Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Charlie Rangel use special interests and special friends for their own enrichment and glorification.
How Ted Kennedy Jr. is exploiting his father's health care power.
"This is no time for apathy or alienation or hopelessness," Morris and McGann remind us. "It's a time for action." And that action must begin now—before it's too late.
Current information for what is going on in today's society.July 19, 2010 P. L. Wright(Hudsonville, MI, US) I have seen Dick Morris numerous times on MSNBC, and Fox News and alot of what people are feeling is expressed in this book. I encourage anyone who is not familiar with politics or the economic situations in our country over the past 10 years, read this book and then please register to vote! Many think that their vote is only one out of many in their district, but people can not complain about Congress or the Senate if you didn't even vote.
Feel good about your outrageJuly 4, 2010 Vance Christiaanse(Upstate NY, USA) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wanted a book to help me understand current political topics better so I could discuss them with other people. I was so eager to get started that instead of buying a book here at Amazon after studying reviews, I bought this one at an airport bookstore. I had never heard of Dick Morris & Eileen McGann but I assumed the book would help me; it listed an impressive array of topics on the back cover.
Instead, the main purpose of the book seems to be to make the reader feel good about what he or she already believes. Whether you are a Tea Party-er who believes the federal government should be much smaller or you are a main-stream Republican who doesn't mind the massive expansion of the federal government and its debt under Reagan, Bush and Bush you will find nothing in this book to disturb you. Whatever your position is on the initial Wall Street bailout you will find nothing in this book to disagree with. As long as you are unhappy with President Barack Obama this book aims to make you feel good about your outrage, no matter what you believe on any particular issue.
The authors are not really trying to cover a broad range of political topics. Many of the topics listed on the back cover are discussed only briefly. Instead, much of the book is devoted to government waste, mistakes and corruption that readers of any persuasion would agree were bad. As for politics, the book covers mostly economic issues. Unfortunately, that coverage didn't help me understand the issues better.
For example, it's clear from chapter 2 that the authors dislike the idea of the government interfering with banks and other financial institutions. But in chapter 13 we learn that the authors hope the government (specifically, the courts) will take steps to discourage banks and investment firms from developing programs in line with Shariah law--something these businesses are doing now to better meet the needs of some of their wealthiest (and thus most important) clients. I am sure the authors understand how these two positions can be reconciled but it's not explained to the reader. What sense did you five-star reviewers make of this? Or of chapter 15, a call for increased government regulation of the airline industry?
As I read this book I kept asking myself how I could explain what I had just read to someone else, for example a friend over lunch. When read in this way the logic of the book seems to fall apart. I could easily imagine my friend asking questions or making responses that would leave me with no answer. The book seems to be a random collection of chapters containing sentences that will sound comforting to any reader who is fairly conservative and not thinking very hard.
If you are a conservative you don't need this book--just reread one of the books you already own. If you are a liberal looking for insight into conservative alternatives you won't find any in this cotton candy.
WOW! Great Deal!April 21, 2010 G. Randy Wood(Riverside, CA USA) I got the book way sooner than expected, AND it looked like a new book!
A must readMarch 25, 2010 R. A. Chambers(CREIGHTON, MO, US) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every American needs to read this book---A real eye opener. Oh what a mistake we made!!!
outstandingMarch 12, 2010 jcrone(florida) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dick Morriss does a great job again of researching and bringing to light some of the things that our liberal media will not talk about. It is amazing some of the things these liberals get away with where if they tried this type of corruption in other countries, they would go to jail.
