Can Republicans gain control of both houses? Dick Morris says it’s possible

While most agree that Republicans will do very well in the November elections, opinions are split on whether it will be a normal mid-term pickup by the minority party, or a massive landslide, or be something in between.

RNC Chairman Michael Steele has said that the GOP will not gain control of Congress in 2010, which is understandable, conservative statement, since the Democrats have such a large majority in both houses.

Others feel that the American public is so angry that there will be a political revolution of sorts that will result in a massive victory by the Republican candidates on the tickets.  The basis for this belief is that the non-liberal American public is very angry at what appears to be a complete disregard by the Democratic majority for what most Americans want.  To make matters worse, while both Pelosi and candidate Barack Obama promised that under their watch we would see the most transparent Washington ever, the reality has been quite the opposite with meeting after meeting conducted behind closed doors, shutting out both Republicans and the American public.  While President Obama promised that health care negotiations would be televised on C-SPAN and that he would reach across the aisle, the reality is that within days of being sworn in he stated “I won” as justification for not involving Republican leaders in key legislation, and he has refused to televise health care negotiations on C-SPAN as he promised at least eight times on the campaign.

To make matters worse, while he refuses to honor his word of putting the health care negotiations on C-SPAN, he and his staff are meeting with union leaders to reach a compromise on Obamacare.  While he is hiding the negotiations from the American people, and refuses input from Republican leaders, he is having closed door meetings with union leaders to agree on a health care bill compromise.

Wasn’t President Obama’s promise of televising negotiations on C-SPAN specifically meant to prevent the kind of back-door deals that he, Pelosi and Reid are trying to cut with union leaders this week at the White House?

This is why the question is not whether there will be a backlash against Democrats in November, but instead how big a backlash it will be.

Dick Morris describes exactly how big the backlash could be and how it could lead to Republican control of both houses:

Pessimism is no more attractive in a party leader than it is in a high school cheerleader. And in the case of Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele, it is unwarranted as well. Despite his prediction, on Fox News, that GOP congressional control will not come “this year,” the Republican Party has a very, very good chance of taking both houses of Congress in 2010.

We are in the midst of a political tsunami. To judge that the water will only ascend a hundred feet or two hundred or three hundred is entirely speculative. Generally, once these things start, they go further than anyone would have thought likely. Only rarely do they fall short.

President Barack Obama’s determination to march ahead with his full socialist agenda, including the imposition of a healthcare system a majority doesn’t want, can only strengthen the winds and the tide that is approaching. The 60-vote Democratic Senate majority is empowering such arrogance and disdain for the democratic process that it is easy to see how it will trigger an equal and opposite reaction in the 2010 elections.

Be sure to visit DickMorris.com to read his full article that lays out the roadmap for how the Republicans can win enough seats to take control of both houses of Congress.