Venezuelan lawmakers granted President Hugo Chavez broad powers Friday to enact laws by decree, undermining the clout of a new congress that takes office next month with a bigger opposition bloc. ...
He taunted his opponents in a televised speech Friday night, saying now that he has decree powers they won't be able to block his laws.
"You won't be able to make a single law, 'pitiyanquis,'" Chavez said, using one of his favorite insults, which refers to U.S. collaborators and translates as "little Yankees." "We're going to see how you make laws now."
Hugo Chavez undermines the pathetic, tattered, remnants of democracy that are left in Venezuela? Let me show you my shocked face:
As bad as this is for Venezuelans in the short run, in the long run the fact that Hugo will just issue decrees based on his bizarre theories about how militaries and economies work will just hasten the decline of Venezuela and hopefully lead someone to end his reign of error before he fully graduates from the Axis of El Vil to the Axis of Evil, under the guidance of Ahmadinejad.
The odds of his decrees actually working to benefit Venezuelans are lower than the odds of being mauled by a polar bear and a regular bear in the same day. Yes, let's see how he makes laws now.
Chavez is evil, no doubt. But he is such a buffoon that I find it hard to imagine that he won't ultimately fail in his plot to rule the world. Good grief, Hugo Chavez is a real-world Plankton!
It's funny, really. If our CIA tried to foist his programs on Venezuela, it would be called an evil Yankee plot.
But Hugo is doing it to himself. How cool is that?
UPDATE: And now he is frothing over President Obama's choice of ambassador to Venezuela. Funny how Hugo once thought the new administration would be a great pal--although it was a close run thing over Honduras--and now hates the President's choice for ambassador.
But hey, even I've noted that the president has been much better on foreign policy than I feared he would be. Not nearly as good as I'd like, mind you, but still much better than I thought he'd be.
