RIP Venezuelan Democracy...

[OklahomaTuba]

How 1930's of them.
Glad to hear he didn't have to burn down the Reichstag.

Venezuela's National Assembly has given initial approval to a bill granting the president the power to bypass congress and rule by decree for 18 months.

President Hugo Chavez says he wants "revolutionary laws" to enact sweeping political, economic and social changes. He has said he wants to nationalise key sectors of the economy and scrap limits on the terms a president can serve.

Mr Chavez began his third term in office last week after a landslide election victory in December.

The bill allowing him to enact laws by decree is expected to win final approval easily in the assembly on its second reading on Tuesday. Venezuela's political opposition has no representation in the National Assembly since it boycotted elections in 2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6277379.stm

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Venezuela has long been one wild-*ss place, politically. We need to open up more domestic areas for oil drilling, and SOON!

[OklahomaTuba]

That and fund the hell out of alternative renewable energy research programs. More so than what is being done now, which is a lot.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

That and fund the hell out of alternative renewable energy research programs. More so than what is being done now, which is a lot.It will take Oil prices going through the roof to move public opinion away from the excessive fear of environmental degradation that now exists, I'm afraid.

[Octavian]

Venezuela's political opposition has no representation in the National Assembly since it boycotted elections in 2005.


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[OklahomaTuba]

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It was probably a good thing they did boycott those elections, as their votes would have been meaningless.

Venezuela is nothing more than a USSR type police state now. I may have mentioned this before, but one of the gents who works for my company and was our office manager in Caracas and had a family member involved in the PDVSA boycots. Almost the entire family was not allowed to work or leave Caracas after that.

Fortunately, we moved him and his family to Trinidad right after all of that.

[Octavian]

It was probably a good thing they did boycott those elections, as their votes would have been meaningless.


maybe, but when a political removes itself from the political process....it sends a signal to the populus that they've given up, and there is no alternative


they might've been pushed aside, but at least they could've cast their ballots before punking out.


anyways, yeah....Chavez is a db

[OklahomaTuba]

Very true.

I wonder which liberal progressive will be visiting and partying with el furor next???

Maybe they can have a threesome with Chavez and Mr. Dinner Jacket from Iran.

[LoyalFan]

Time to take out that insane chimpanzee...ala Allende, "Che", etc.
Keeeeeeel heeeeeeem!

Peace and Bro'hood.

LF
Damned good with a .270, if anyone's hiring.

[Chuck Bao]

Octavian is wise way beyond his years. Political parties should never boycott elections and give up on the democratic process and their supporters. :mad: in the case of Thailand's general election 2006 and subsequent coup.

[reevie]

Let me guess what the first two laws will be that he decrees:

1) Since he can write his own laws, Venezuela doesn't need a congress anymore, so bye-bye legislative body.

2) Oh, no legislative body, better extend that presidential decree from 18 months to life.

[Jerk]

He's also building his own Kalashnikov plant on license from mother Russia. Lord knows we don't have enough of them.

Chavez is a thug, and hopefully his retirement, like so many other dictators, will not end so nicely.