Klaus Rohrich

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.

Founding the Flea Party

It’s clear that the Democrats have “party envy,” even as they cast sneering glances at the Tea Party, which everyone assumes to be a primarily Republican organization. With the recent formation of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, some Dems are beginning to see the possibilities of having their own Tea Party-like organization in the hapless shlubs protesting against America’s billionaires.

Pass the jobs bill now!

Ever notice how President Obama never seems to deal with ideas, but rather speaks in clichés. He often talks about “fat cat” Wall Street bankers, “big” oil companies and of course the ever-popular “wealthiest Americans.” It’s kind of a window into the man’s soul that reveals volumes about what he really thinks about his fellow citizens. His most recent Bogeyman is the “millionaire,” you know, the guy whose picture you see in the monopoly game lighting his illegal Cuban cigars with crisp new hundred dollar bills, while the slavering masses wallow in abject deprivation, dragging their tired asses along endless soup-kitchen line-ups. Yeah, we get the picture.

Job creation: why now?

It’s interesting to note that President Obama’s so-called “job-creation” plan comes more than two years after the lack of jobs became an 800-lb gorilla. Foregoing the question of whether or not government is even capable of “creating” jobs, the question of the day is “why has it taken 33 months for the president to finally come up with a plan?”

Excuses, excuses

A recent article in Canada’s Financial Post by Eric Lascelles, chief economist at RBC Global Asset Management, Inc. predicts that the U.S economy will soon be all sunshine and lollipops, as its current malaise can easily be explained by a confluence of several unfortunate and unavoidable factors. These include the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the spate of bad weather that wreaked havoc upon the American south and mid-west, and the spike in oil prices earlier this year that Lascelles assures his readers will return to normal sometime soon.

The Democrats’ own Reichstag Fire

It’s February 1933. Adolf Hitler has recently been appointed Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. A mysterious fire breaks out at the German Parliament, known as the Reichstag and totally destroys the building. Near the scene of the fire a spaced-out Dutchman named Marinus van der Lubbe is taken into custody and it turns out he is a communist. Authorities quickly convict van der Lubbe who is then executed for his “crime.” But not before Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution is invoked, which gave Hitler total control of Germany and curtailed the country’s most basic rights, including the right to free expression, freedom of the Press, the right of free assembly, the right to secure postal and telephone communications, protection from illegal search and seizure, right to private property and the right of German states to self-government. A supplemental decree added the creation of special police agencies such as the SS (Schutz Staffel , or protective echelon) and the SA (Sturm Abteilung, or Storm Troopers).