Klaus Rohrich

Democrats are going for broke

One thing you can say about the Democratic Party, they are an interesting bunch. Scrutinizing the events and pronouncements during their convention is both educational as well as entertaining. Today’s Democrats as a party make George Lukas’s Star Wars bar look like a convention of southern Methodists, given the freak show they’ve put on.

Defining the argument

One of the unfortunate consequences of being a decent person is that it makes one reluctant to tell lies and half-truths. Not so with individuals whose beliefs are such that the end justifies the means. It leads to the creation of creepy Orwellian terminology to advance a point of view and it usually originates from the Left.

“You didn’t build that?!”

Once again Barack Obama has demonstrated that he doesn’t have a clue about how America works. This time he borrowed a line from Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is challenging incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown in an effort to reclaim Teddy Kennedy’s seat. Obama claims that anyone in the US who runs a successful business has not achieved that success on his or her own volition, but instead has to thank the government for making that success possible.

Passing head wind

As the Labor Department released its latest dismal statistics about America’s 8.2% unemployment rate, the Obama campaign is pedaling furiously to defend his record in office. “We’re fighting our way back,” Obama pleaded on a campaign stop in Minnesota. “Our economy is still facing serious head winds.”

Europe steps to the precipice

The defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy in France’s presidential election and the victory of a socialist president could be the straw that broke Europe’s back and by association, that of the global economy. Over the past two years there has been a struggle among Euro-types over what to do about the Eurozone’s many flagging economies. It started with several bailouts of Greece, whose citizens somehow feel that if their government can’t give them cradle-to-grave “care,” then the job should fall to the more industrious and harder working members of the European Union.

I got da Wildrose blues

As blues singers might famously lament: Woke up this mornin’ sun didn’t shine was worried and moanin’ ‘bout this country o’ mine saw another election kept dat mean woman in was such bad selection, oh lawd, what a sin.

Tricks of the Democrats’ trade

The legislation currently languishing in the Senate, the so-called ‘Buffet Rule,’ isn’t really designed to reduce the deficit by any amount, but rather serves as a ruse to position the Republicans as not caring for anyone but the rich in anticipation of this year’s elections. Two out of three Americans are in favor of charging millionaires more taxes because, A) millionaires can afford it, B) it doesn’t cost the middle class a dime and C) the president said it would reduce the deficit.

A judicial lynching

Before getting into this column too far, I should acknowledge that I do not know whether the killing of Trayvon Martin was racially motivated, nor do I know what was in George Zimmerman’s heart that fateful night when he pulled the trigger that ended young Martin’s life. However, I do know without the slightest scintilla of a doubt that the “special prosecutor” in Florida laying second-degree murder charges against Zimmerman, is doing so for both racial and political reasons.

Republic or Democracy?

Taylor E. Hoynes, Jr., a Georgia realtor and grand American patriot, recently wrote what could be considered a seminal work on the American political system. The book, titled Republic or Democracy: Is There a Difference? (Colonial Publishing Co., 2011) explores the roots of America’s founding and the important difference between a democracy and a republic. It’s a fascinating work that’s especially relevant, given the current populist pushback against governmental overreach.

White House bundler accused of ‘Nigerian’ scam

Abake Assongba, a prominent bundler for Barak Obama’s reelection campaign has been accused of running a scam against a Swiss businessman in Florida, which resulted in the poor sot suing to get his $650,000 back. I understand that the very act of even reporting such unpleasantry generally results in rabid accusations of racism from the Left, but in this case, I’ll gladly take the heat.

Tom Harkin’s whacky plan to nationalize private debt

In the true spirit of winner-take-all class warfare, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the powerful Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pension Committee, suggested that the government force banks to write off bad mortgages, “especially...for the lower income.” Sure, why not? Obama screwed investors in GM and Chrysler with his autoworkers’ bailout. Why stop there? Let’s screw everyone with any assets, just to make sure that members of Harkin’s party continue to get reelected.

EU: banana bureaucracy

Anyone wondering why the European debt crisis is on the verge of sinking the global economy, it’s because there isn’t any matter too inconsequential for it not to be regulated by the cadre of Eurobureaucrats. Understanding that the sovereign debt crisis is primarily about the debt of individual countries, such as Greece, Portugal, Italy, etc. it goes a long way toward explaining why there is a debt crisis in the first place. The cradle-to-grave care lavished by Eurozone nations onto its citizens and the bureaucracies responsible for these programs is the reason there is a sovereign debt crisis.

Herman Cain has been sexually harassing me for years!

-Satire- Herman Cain is a serial sexual harasser of the worst kind. All those women who have come forward complaining about his voracious sexual appetite are only the tip of the iceberg. Their complaints are nothing compared to what Cain has been doing to me for the past twenty-two years. He’s been relentlessly harassing me, sexually, and nothing I do can get him to stop.

Ignorance breeds poverty

I recently spent a week in the Heartland deer hunting with friends. It’s something that I’ve done off and on for a number of years, albeit the last time I went was back in 2006. What struck me as particularly shocking on this visit was the abject poverty to which many Americans have sunk, living in conditions of squalor that are more in keeping with the Third World. It isn’t localized to any one specific area, either. One finds it in places as diverse as Vermont, Upstate New York, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and a plethora of other states.

Good riddance to bad rubbish

Barney Frank’s decision not to seek another term in Congress came not a moment too soon and perhaps 20 years too late. Frank is one of those lawmakers whose effect will continue to be felt for decades to come, as much of the legislation he authored and/or championed did little or nothing good.

American WaBenzi

In Africa the ruling class is known as the “WaBenzi,” a term describing a corrupt government official or a family member of one. The term originates from a Bantu colloquialism with “Wa” being a prefix that refers to people and “Benzi” referring to Mercedes-Benz, a vehicle favored by African rulers. WaBenzi excel at privatizing public resources in order to further their own goals and think nothing of spending government revenues or foreign aid on themselves and their family or tribe, while the people of their nation languish in abject poverty.

Losing before the first shot is fired

I was at a dinner party on Saturday night and we were talking about the economy. One of the guests opined that, like in the 1930s, this Great Recession was here to stay and recovery will only come about as a result of war. While I personally agree with this sentiment, as did some of the other guests, one guest’s comments struck me as being particularly prescient. “There’ll be a war,” he said. “But we’ll lose because we won’t fight. Our young people just aren’t up for it.”

Obama whacks another bad guy

Who’d have thought that Barack Hussein Obama, the skinny community organizer from Chicago, would turn out to be so butch? First, he goes out and personally hunts down Public Enemy #1, Osama bin Laden, and finishes him off with a nice clean double-tap, making his head explode like an overripe watermelon. Then he goes after that arch cross-dresser Muammar Qaddaffi and whacks him as well. America hasn’t seen a president this bellicose since Theodore Roosevelt led the charge up San Juan Hill. Never mind Harry S. Truman dropping The Big One on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Obama gets up close and personal with America’s enemies, making them bleed in the streets.

Government healthcare is bad for your health

A friend who lives in Tennessee sent me an email last week, decrying that the “experts” advising President Obama on healthcare are suggesting that PSA tests for men aren’t necessary and should not be covered under government healthcare.

The second Civil War

Immigration reform has been a long simmering issue that successive administrations have failed to address. Not since the Reagan administration passed the Immigration Control & Reform Act (ICRA) of 1986 has any party given serious consideration to enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. When the ICRA was passed it granted amnesty to an estimated 3 million illegal immigrants on the assumption that such an amnesty would once and for all “fix” the problem of immigration.