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Tag: Dick Morris

Act Like A Republican?

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Tue May 31, 2011 at 08:55:03 AM EST
Tags: Dick Morris, Rick Snyder, Ambassador, Bridge, credits, Detroit, DRIC, federal, government, highway, MDOT, private, public, tolls, traffic, Windsor (all tags)

res ipsa loquitur

Dick Morris says Rick Snyder should act like a Republican, and in the process draws out the hard core "re-distributionists." Darrell Dawsey writes at MLive:

Matty Moroun is rich enough. He doesn't need or deserve a second bridge. (Personally, I wish someone could take the first one from him, too.) Free enterprise is fine, but private citizens shouldn't be in the business of owning international border crossings. Our borders, and the economic and national security issues they generate, are a matter of public interest.

God help us if that is the reason Snyder wants the bridge. Dawsey's screed is something that appears often enough in the dankest corners of totalitarianism to keep us on our toes and sleep with an eye open. Always.

Snyder's wishes of another bridge makes perfect sense in some ways, and little in others.

He is a "Milliken Republican" which brings a brand of centrism that has too much in common with the Dawsey think, that government ought to have control of all things no matter how miserably they fail under government control. Detroit Schools? Detroit itself? Perfect examples of Centrism allowing a minor scratch to develop into full blown gangrene. Why not invite such catastrophe when given the opportunity? Perhaps a little brick and mortar money poured into the patient's [amputation inviting] open sore infested hole will fix it?

Maybe such things need to be questioned a little more thoroughly.

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At Least He's Honest

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 02:17:41 PM EST
Tags: Frank Beckmann, Dick Morris, Rick Snyder, LOL (all tags)

If this weren't so true, it'd be my laugh for the day.

"I wish we had a Republican governor in Michigan who would fight for this as well," said political guru Dick Morris on the Frank Beckmann Show this AM as he ticked off the four states " Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana " that are leading the charge against collective bargaining reform. His jab was aimed at "supposed Republican" Rick Snyder.
Morris' critical comments buttress those made by Leon Drolet on our home page today and other Michigan conservative financial experts like Michael LaFaive who admire Snyder's leadership on the budget " but worry he is missing an opportunity to fundamentally reform the labor costs that are unsustainable in this state and elsewhere.

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"Republican governors are going to fundamentally alter the reform process," says Morris. And he fears Michigan is missing the boat.

Michigan missed the boat last November by habitually electing RINO's then thinking they'll somehow achieve better results than Democrats.

As noted above, the complete column here.

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