Klaus Rohrich

What’s wrong with David Frum?

Last week, following passage of the Democrats’ much-hated healthcare bill, David Frum penned an article on his web site stating that Republicans and conservatives had suffered their “most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s”. The article went on to explain that the Republican Party had caved to its intransigent lunatic fringe headed by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and would prove to be the party’s undoing.

How much did Obama’s two million jobs cost?

Last week on the anniversary of the enactment of the Obama stimulus bill, the president bragged about having saved or created some 2 million jobs thus far and said that the stimulus was on target to create or save 1.5 million more jobs, bringing up the estimated total to 3.5 million jobs saved or created.

Islamists suffering from paranoid schizophrenia

Last weekend an Islamic conference on the “Media War on Islam” was held at the Islamic Society of York Region, just north of Toronto. The function, which was attended by some 300 Muslims, focused on complaints that Western media were biased against Islam and that a vast conspiracy was in play to discredit that religion and its followers.

“A second depression is no longer a possibility”

These were the words that most struck me as particularly spurious when President Obama crowed about the success of his stimulus plan on the anniversary of its enactment. While it’s unclear whether he was referring to 1929 or 2008 as being the “first” depression, what is clear is that a second, much deeper recession is just around the corner and this one will be the direct result of Mr. Obama’s policies.

A legacy of failure

It’s very difficult to keep track of all of Barack Obama’s plans and initiatives as they assume a chimeric quality, keeping Americans wary and guarded, lest another attempt at a costly and intrusive program originates from the chastened, but unbowed Democrats. It’s clear that the American people are most concerned with the economy, and that message seems to have finally penerated the President’s tin cochlea and now appears to be working toward his brain. Recent pronouncements following the tectonic shift in the Senate indicate that the President is promising to focus on “job creation”. Only problem is he’s attempting to create jobs through more stimulus spending.

The bare facts

Like cornered rats, when all else fails, Democrats often go nuclear in their attempts to survive. So it appears that a story surfacing in, of all places, the on-line version of The Kansas City Star, purports to lay bare the naked truth about newly elected Senator Scott Brown (R-MA). The blog post features a photo of the June 1982 version of Cosmopolitan wherein the future senator appeared in the buff on a centre spread along with the caption “America’s sexiest man.”

Turning voodoo into rocket science

The idea that there are people who actually believe that governments create wealth and political leaders who claim that we can spend our way to prosperity using borrowed money has always fascinated me. After all, there is plenty of empirical evidence going back to the founding of the nation that gainsays these conceits. Yet every so often a perfect storm of voter credulity, hatred for the incumbent and misguided idealism combines to create governments like the one currently running the nation. That’s how America wound up electing a cabal of socialist politicians bent on “fundamentally changing the face of America,” whether Americans want it changed or not. And of course, today all political change involves economics, which brings me to the realization that what passes for economics in Washington these days is a lot closer to faith healing than it is to that time honored social science.

Are the rats jumping ship or being thrown overboard?

The announcements this week, all on the same day, that Democrat Senators Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan and Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, also a Democrat, will not seek reelection looks like a case of rats jumping a sinking ship. But it could also be a case of the rats being thrown overboard by the Democrat leadership as polls are indicating that their chances of being reelected in their respective states are somewhat less than an ice cube has in hell.

No smoking gun?!

It seems the only way the Obama Administration will be able to spot terror, er, sorry, “human caused disaster” suspects is if they saunter into an airport pushing a shopping cart loaded with bombs, fuses, guns, ammo and box cutters. At least that’s the impression one gets listening to the various administration officials blithely attempting to explain away the terrorist attack against a Northwest Airlines plane over Detroit on Dec. 25.

It wasn’t a “failed” terrorist attack

The drama that took place over Detroit on Christmas Eve, after one Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was prevented from blowing up a Northwest Airlines plane inbound from Amsterdam has been dubbed a “failed” terrorist attack by the former mainstream media. But the truth is, that attempt to blow up the plane in midair was every bit as successful as if the bomb had detonated and blown the plane and all aboard to smithereens. V.I. Lenin said, “The purpose of Terrorism is to terrorize.” And terrorize the Yemeni contingent of al Qaeda did in this so-called “failed” effort.

I like Sarah Palin, but…

The one good thing we can take away from the first 25% of Barack Obama’s train wreck of a presidency is that it isn’t a job that’s particularly conducive to on-the-job training. While Obama is an outstanding speaker with a magnificent and well-tenored voice, a grand sense of timing and speechwriters that could be the envy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, his ability to deliver on his promises is not so great.

Neo-Socs guilty of delusional thinking

One of the prime factors that set the Neo-Socialists apart from normal Americans is their delusional thinking. Nearly every legislative initiative introduced by the current management of the White House and Congress is fraught with silly premises that have no basis in reality.

Obama pulls end run

As I wrote here yesterday, I believe the feeding frenzy currently taking place at the Copenhagen trough will result in the ultimate global governance of every man woman and child on the planet. A climate treaty may not actually be signed and agreed upon by the 192 countries whose representatives are currently living LARGE on caviar and limousines at the conference, but the rules such a treaty might impose will still take effect.

Copenhagen: socialism’s wet dream

The Copenhagen ‘climate change’ conference is a bold initiative on the part of the world’s socialists to spread the wealth, as Barack Obama promised when campaigning for President. The disclosure that many leading climate scientists ‘cooked the books’ and attempted to actively hide data contrary to their hypotheses could theoretically derail the conference, but I don’t think it will.

What’s so irrational about fearing Islam?

The Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary defines a phobia as “any persistent, irrational and excessive fear of some particular thing or situation,” Take note of the adjective, “irrational,” as it is key in debunking the idea of Islamophobia. People who are deemed to be Islamophic by the politically correct arbiters of acceptable emotions are actually quite justified in their fear of Islam, given the almost daily reports of violence perpetrated against innocent people in the name of that religion.

Losing in Afghanistan—on purpose

An interesting trait that has come to light about the Procrastinator in Chief is that any proposed program or initiative that advances his transformative socialist agenda can’t be enacted quickly enough.

Energy independence most important priority

Here’s an interesting (and very likely) prognostication: Some time in the very near future Iran will be in possession of a nuclear weapon and Israel’s hand will be forced. Strike preemptively or be struck. Either way, the result will be a conflagration in the Middle East that will stop access to oil not just from Iran, but also from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

The one thing wrong with Obamacare

The healthcare bill congress passed over the weekend, HR 3962, a mere 1,990 pages of drivel is a bill that will decrease the quality of care most Americans currently enjoy.

Reality never a big issue with Toronto politicians

When City of Toronto budget chief Shelley Carroll contemplated imposing a city sales tax, it was clear proof that even the mentally retarded can get an important position in politics. But then, being in touch with reality has never counted for much in the machinations of the Great Socialist Workers’ Paradise known as Toronto.

Yes, Virginia, you are Santa Claus

The off-year elections just concluded have served notice on advocates of Big Government that Americans aren’t particularly interested in kowtowing to bureaucrats and still value their personal freedom.