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By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com
on January 24, 2011
All the public opinion polls now confirm that President Obama has moved up
sharply and significantly in popularity and job approval since he began to
tack toward the center after the November election. Rasmussen and Zogby
both have him over 50% job approval for the first time in almost a year.
The key event was his high-minded speech in the aftermath of the Tucson
shootings and his clear separation from the blame-oriented liberal
commentators who tried to pin the killings on the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.

Now, as he prepares to deliver his third State of the Union address, he will
have a national audience that will see him for one hour doing what he does
best - giving a speech. State of the Union addresses are not to be taken
lightly. In the Clinton Administration, I compared them to the towers of a
suspension bridge. When the speech was given, the president's ratings would
rise only to fall gradually until they perked up again at the next State of
the Union speech.
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Obama will, doubtless, be the soul of moderation, bipartisanship, and
compromise in his speech and may well see his ratings soar further upward.

But don't panic. Obama has to begin to take real positions on real issues
posed by the Republican Congress. Will he cut spending sharply when the
debt limit is increased? Will he agree to defunding Obamacare? Will he go
along with banning the EPA from issuing regulations taxing carbon emissions?
Will his Administration permit the National Labor Relations Board to ban
secret ballots in union elections or let the FCC regulate the Internet and
cripple talk radio? Will he veto budgets that have earmarks inserted by
his Democratic allies?

On these issues, there really is no center. If Obama wants to cut spending
by only a moderate amount, that is not centrism. Half of too much is still
too much.
If the Republicans pose these choices starkly, Obama's so-called move to the
center will be exposed as the fraud that it is. He cannot remain protected
by his own platitudes and clichés when he has to make real decisions about
public policy, choosing between his own liberal/socialist ideology and what
America wants.

Indeed, the public will be doubly cynical about him if his move to the
center turns out to have no substance. They will feel conned once again by
the glib silver tongue in the White House. And Obama will have a hard time
fooling the people thrice!

But the Republicans must do their part. To call Obama's bluff, they will
have to pass serious alternatives to his policies - big cuts in spending,
defunding of Obamacare and of his administrative orders, and a procedure for
state bankruptcies. On the rocks of these issues, Obama's centrism will
smash to pieces and he will be revealed for the radical that he really is.
There will be some Republicans who will want to meet him in the middle and
agree to some cosmetic changes in Obamacare and some peripheral cuts in
spending. We must not listen to these voices. It is only by posing sharp
issues and manifestly different paths that Obama will be forced to choose
and, in the process, be exposed.
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