Catastrophe [Hardcover]

Dick Morris (Author), Eileen McGann (Author)

Book Description

Release date: June 23, 2009

With FLEECED, their June 2008 attack on Barack Obama, congressional corruption, liberal tax policies, teachers unions, and much more, political analysts Dick Morris and Eileen McGann scored their biggest bestseller ever-debuting at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and riding high on the list for eight weeks and counting. Thanks to massive, continual exposure on The O-Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, and the other Fox News programs-and the broad popularity of Dick-s syndicated column and exploding mailing list-FLEECED is on track to double the sales of their previous bestseller, OUTRAGE. In 2009, Morris and McGann will return with their biggest book yet. In proven fashion, they-ll take on a barrage of hot-button pocketbook issues of immediate interest to the American people-from oil prices, real estate, and the faltering state of the economy to the ongoing corruption in Washington. But the big opportunity here is to get Dick and Eileen-s first take on the new administration-and, whoever wins the 2008 election, there-s bound to be plenty to talk about. -If Barack Obama wins, conservative readers will be hopping mad. Expect a full accounting of Obama-s all-important first 100 days in office-from his surely liberal cabinet appointments, to his handling of federal spending and new taxes, to the truth about his left-leaning policies. - If John McCain wins, conservative readers will be deeply suspicious. Will McCain stay true to the GOP-s small-government principles and conservative social agenda-or will his old -maverick- ways resurface, selling out the party and the country? Either way, the new Morris/McGann book promises to be their biggest yet: the hottest straight-talk team in politics taking on the first new administration since 2000-and all the issues that readers all over America care about most.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Harper; First Edition edition (June 23, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006177104X
• ISBN-13: 978-0061771040
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (163 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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From the Back Cover

It's time to take back our country.

Barack Obama and the Democrats are . . .

Canceling the war on terror . . .and replacing it with a war on prosperity. Taking away your health care options. . . And replacing them with government rationing. Taking control of the banks, Detroit, and your money . . .and converting them all into government assets.

We're not just heading for disaster . . .it's already here! Listen to Catastrophe today and find out how to stop it.

Now, in Catastrophe, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann take a hard look at America in freefall—and at now-President Obama, who is already exploiting our distress by transforming a vulnerable America into a socialist state.

"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.

--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

About the Author

Dick Morris served as Bill Clinton's political consultant for twenty years. A regular political commentator on Fox News, he is the author of ten New York Times bestsellers (all with Eileen McGann) and one Washington Post bestseller.

Eileen McGann is an attorney who, with her husband, Dick, writes columns for the New York Post and for their website, dickmorris.com. She has written extensively about the abuses of Congress and the need for reform.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Harper; First Edition edition (June 23, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006177104X
• ISBN-13: 978-0061771040
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (163 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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517 of 629 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Lest One Forget, Dick Morris Was Bill Clinton's Political Advisor June 23, 2009

By James R. Holland TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

When the critics start calling this book "Extreme Right Wing Dribble", remember that the author of this dire warning was Bill Clinton's Political Advisor for two decades. He helped make him President of the USA. So if Dick Morris is warning that a very dangerous Government created tidal wave is approaching, maybe we all should take time to check it out and head for the high ground if he is correct? This is not the only voice screaming in the wilderness. Glenn Beck has just published a book of similar warnings called "Common Sense."
This 359-page tome has 16 chapters included in three major sections. Those overall sections are titled "How Obama Is Causing A Catastrophe," "How Congress Causes Catastrophe" and "How Special Interests Cause Catastrophe." The authors don't pull any punches or go easy on any of the guilty parties responsible for this oncoming tragedy. "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." Never mind that socialism has never worked anywhere in the history of the world.
The individual chapter headings provide a pretty decent idea of the book's content. "Obama's War on Prosperity", "The Bank Bailout That Bombed", " Obama's Health Care Catastrophe", "Obama's Blueprint for Political Domination", "Christopher Dodd and Charles Rangel: From Idealistic Reformers to Privileged Insiders" and "The Sheer Chutzpah of Countryside Financial Executives" reveal much and the material in those chapters backs up the chapter titles.... The book also has an excellent introduction and nearly forty pages of Appendixes.
The basic theme is "It's time to take back our country. Now. It's that simple. It's that urgent."
"Obama has cancelled the war on terror and declared a war on prosperity."
The President was not kidding when he told "Joe the plumber" that what he knew about was redistributing wealth. He stopped talking about "Civil War Reparations" early in the campaign and the media went along with burying that hot button issue. The same media ignored Mr. Obama's almost complete lack of work experience and his connections with ACORN which is about to change it's name and go underground and probably re-emerge in control of the tax payer funded "AmeriCorps" and/or a Homeland Security Army. Acorn isn't really "COIN of the realm." It may be the administrations muscle, but it's not yet government financed.
Does anyone else hear any echoes of the rise of Hitler and Nazism?
"Upper-income taxpayers must feel a bit like hogs at the Chicago stockyards--being fattened with stimulus spending so they can be slaughtered with tax increases two years down the road...all to make a nice breakfast for the federal government.""Obama cannot succeed by waging war on the rich. It didn't work when FDR tried it, and it cannot work now."
The speed at which all these changes are being pushed through under the Liberals two favorite disguises "Crisis" and "For the Children" resembles an out-of-control train. As Morris and co-author McGann so clearly report, this government is not only bankrupt but also it is in the process of bankrupting all future generations of Americas. The twin crisis of a bankrupt Social Security System and Medicare will arrive within the next eight years and there will be no money to save it. Worse, the United States won't be able to borrow the money either. Our freedoms and our economy are on the verge of a virtual collapse. Wake Up America! The Snake Oil Salesmen have arrived. Normally, this recession would be over. Not this time. Why?
Believe it or not, it's because the new administration doesn't want it to return to normal and its programs are consciously designed to impede any recovery. Mr. Morris, by the way, predicted all this in print and on television more than a year ago when everything in the economy appeared rosy and now he can sit back and say, "I told you so!" Unfortunately he doesn't want to be able to do that, because the next steps in his predictions will take away most of America's wealth and freedoms. This is a very important read for anyone interested in his freedom and well being. Read more ›

251 of 318 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars If true this is scary stuff..... June 23, 2009

By Robert Busko TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Hardcover

I'm not necessarily a fan of Dick Morris, but he does know how to write a book. At nearly 360 pages, Catastrophe is an interesting read and certainly thought provoking. If only half of what he and Eileen McGann say is true, then the middle class really is in danger of losing the country. As someone who has been on the right side of center on the political continuum, I've become leery of both the left and the right in recent years. As an American I'm distrustful of the government, whether red or blue and believe that the less government we have the better off we are. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I love this country and I'm a devoted citizen.

As Morris and McGann point out, the United States' economy is sliding (slipping might be a better term) into socialism, something, by the way, that is fairly obvious to anyone who learned and retained anything from their freshmen Economics in college. That the government is taking over the banking, insurance, and auto industries is pretty obvious. The next target is the healthcare system and no one seems to be able to stop what seems to be inevitable. All of this, by the way, is unconstitutional but no one, outside a few conservative voices, and I mean no one, is pointing that out.

Chris Dodd, Teddy Kennedy (senior and Jr.) Charley Rangel, and Bill Clinton are all singled out for attention by Morris and McGann. But others are mentioned as well, such as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

One disturbing surprise for me in Catastrophe is the idea that American courts may become influenced by Shariah Law. This phenomenon has been reported in various sources as already happening in several European countries, but the idea that the American justice system would make this mistake is mind boggling, and unacceptable.... Certainly Constitutional Law will continue to be the only law practiced in the courts in the United States. Shariah law is fine in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc. but, respectfully, that's where it should stay.

Perhaps the most serious mention in Catastrophe is the fact that ACORN will be involved in collecting data for the 2010 census. If this doesn't scare you, nothing will. ACORN has already been called to task about questionable voter registrations in several cities and also have refused to let auditors look at their books. Why would we let them count the population? Scary!

There are some claims made by Morris that I have a hard time understanding. For example, that Obama wants the current banking system to fail so that he can nationalize banking entirely. I have a hard time understanding how anyone will benefit from this, liberals or conservatives. Further, Morris makes the claim Obama wants to dismantle the war on terror. Again, I can't see how anyone benefits from this, other than our enemies.

Dick Morris knows how to stir the pot. He's certainly stirred up a hornets nest with Catastrophe. Like him or not, he does raise some thought provoking ideas, some of which are quite alarming. However you view the world you should enjoy the book. Read more ›

140 of 187 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars America's Path to Catastrophe and How to Get out of It June 23, 2009

By CT

Format:Hardcover

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann have presented a chilling view of America's free fall to socialism. This book documents how President Obama has essentially suspended the war on terrorism and shifted to the war on prosperity, which undermines the vitality of American private enterprises. Having facts and figures presented with their arguments, I find that their warnings are valid and urgent. It is indeed, as the authors have asserted, "no time for apathy or alienation or hopelessness," but "a time for action." I personally find it fascinating how a former political adviser to President Bill Clinton can make such a compelling case against the policies of the current Democrat-run White House and Congress.

70 of 93 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Morris is spot on June 29, 2009

By M. Kirkland

Format:Hardcover

As a matter of disclosure, I am a conservative.

This book is startling. Mr. Morris makes a point that is breathtaking: Obama told us what he would do. The American people were so blinded by the glitz, the possibility that he could (and ultimately would) be our first black President, and the mantra of "change" after so many had become disenchanted with Bush that they didn't listen to the details, which is, as the old saying goes, is where the devil lies.

We are in trouble, deep trouble. This book and Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny" will, in retrospect stand out as wake-up calls to the populace. Whether the citizens of our good country listen and heed could very well be a benchmark in our history. Everyone needs to read this book, whether after doing so you agree with Morris or not. This work deserves a fair hearing.