German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/97, pp.
11604-11605.
If Frau Klöckner has again calmed herself, I may begin.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
The CDU installs its first investigating committee. What it
now puts forward, after much tamtam and a conceited announcement, is beyond
thin: Six and a half pages of which a page and a half are names. I need say to
you: With a five page investigation motion, you fall short of us. You still
need to learn opposition. We sit directly beside you. Simply call upon us and
we may show you how it goes.
Nevertheless, one now wants to address oneself to the
Chancellor’s false stories and/or increasing bouts of amnesia – it is, besides,
a shame that he is not here; perhaps he has forgotten the date. That is in our
view in order. This requires a clarification. Since who really wants to be
governed by anyone who is either mysteriously forgetful or simply lies without
blushing as he has already?
Ladies and gentlemen, the term of Rumscholzens is meanwhile firmly anchored in the German language
usage. It stands for careful and long-term planning and to announce a policy;
and yet then to do the opposite: For dodging, for laughing it away, for
laughing off the citizens,
Johannes
Schraps (SPD): We have made it clear in the government declaration. That it is nonsense what you are telling here!
That is rubbish!
for non-reaction, and for recourse to memory loss – like a
poor man’s Joe Biden. We are in Germany.
How can such a man, how can such a person at all govern
Germany – a country that slides and is steered from one crisis to another? How
can such a man stand at the top of our government? The Cicero newspaper has the
answer in the form of a question and which reads: How could anyone “with so
little standing” [„mit so wenig Anstand“]
and talent arrive at the office of the
Federal Chancellor?
I reveal it to you. It is, for one, his Scholzo-mat aura,
for another, his competitors were certainly beyond pale. Frau Merkel did not
want or should no longer be Chancellor candidate, Laschet on the sidelines laughed
in the face of the Nordrhein-Westfalen flood catastrophe, Söder entangled himself in intrigues from which he did not
extricate himself.
Today’s opposition leader Herr Merz – he sits here – is,
with his BlackRock entanglement, scarcely acceptable as Federal Chancellor.
BlackRock – one needs know; Herr Merz knows it, he even laughs – is an
investment group with administered assets of 10 trillion euros, two and a half
times as much as Germany generates in gross domestic product. Herr Merz, that
allows to expect nothing good from a person who thereupon shall assume
influence on German policy. And Wolfgang Schäuble, with the money bag and the 100,000
mark donations, the circumstance of which was never clarified, is still
remembered. Thus, here some brandish themselves as accusers who actually belong
on the bench of the accused.
Ladies and gentlemen, money bags, corruption – one thinks of
the Corona profiteers and the mask dealers of the CDU and CSU – scandals wherever
one looks. Herr Scholz, First Bürgermeister of Hamburg, who already in the year
2017 at the G-20 summit allowed his city to be laid in rubble and ash, hangs in
the midst of this swamp.
It is of course still more interesting that in this Warburg
Bank swamp Mathias Döpfner also now emerges. He is the head of Springer who
gladly insulted we east Germans as low-grade fascists and communists and whom
the FDP and Herr Kubicki praised to the heavens in his press organs. And Herr Döpfner has received 60 million euros from the
Warburg Bank. I am anxious that
everything here may appear.
Ladies and gentlemen, a clarification is required, yet we
have in Germany essentially greater problems. We have significant harm as a
result of the Afghanistan disaster with many dead, as a result of the Corona
disaster with costs in the hundreds of billions, the Nord Stream explosion,
this unlimited immigration, the exploding criminality,
Maximilian Mordhorst (FDP): Mein Gott!
tens of billions in costs for the immigration, the Treuhand
disaster and the disaster of the Merkel regime. These problems in addition
require clarification.
All of this you of course do not want. You all are stuck in
the mud. You want to hush it up. You now throw yourselves at Herr Merz and the
Warburg Bank. Have fun. We are nevertheless –
Vice-president Katrin Göring-Eckardt: Herr Brandner.
yet think that much greater efforts are required to again
bring Germany onto the right path.
Many thanks.
Bruno Hönel
(Greens): You have said nothing at all on the motion!
Markus Herbrand (FDP): Not a word on the motion! Laschet is laughing.
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