Obama congratulating Chavez on clever move.   Wishes he could pull it off.;)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101214/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_chavez

Ostensibly to deal with emergency conditions.   New government has more opposition members.

I wonder if they are dumb enought to actually let this happen. I bet he's already got his "President for Life" buisiness card order in at the printer.

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ, Associated Press Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press – Tue Dec 14, 5:10 pm ET
CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday asked congress to grant him special powers to enact laws by decree for one year, just before a new legislature takes office with a larger contingent of opposition lawmakers.

The measure would give the president the ability to bypass the National Assembly for the fourth time since he was first elected almost 12 years ago.

Vice President Elias Jaua made the request on Chavez's behalf, saying the president will use the authorization to ensure fast-track approval of laws aimed at helping the nation recover from severe flooding and mudslides that left thousands homeless and in government shelters.

"The measures we have to take are deep. Almost 40 percent of the country was affected" by the heavy rains, Jaua said.

It is expected to win easy approval in the outgoing legislature dominated by Chavez allies.

Chavez's opponents accuse him of using the natural disaster to impose socialist-inspired measures and undermine the power of newly elected opposition lawmakers.

Hundreds of Chavez opponents protested outside the legislature Tuesday, saying Chavez is violating democratic principles and objecting to other planned laws that could impose regulations on the Internet and endanger Globovision, the country's last stridently anti-Chavez television channel.

Decrees planned in the next two weeks include laws to speed construction of housing and roads, increase the value-added tax and develop projects involving farming and use of urban lands, Jaua said.

He said Chavez aims to pass laws dealing with vital services after the disaster and in areas including infrastructure, land use, the banking sector, defense and the "socio-economic system of the nation."

Jaua also mentioned plans to legislate in the area of "international cooperation." Chavez has urged lawmakers to pass a law barring non-governmental organizations such as human rights groups from receiving U.S. funding.

Newly elected opposition lawmaker Julio Borges said the measures being taken up by the National Assembly in its final days go against the will of the voters.

"As elected deputies, we're asking for a meeting between the new assembly and the old one, so that people are respected — the voters and the constitution," Borges told reporters.

Chavez announced the plan to seek decree powers Friday, and some critics suggested he intended to push through controversial measures during the holidays while many Venezuelans are focusing on their families.

Opposition newspaper editor Teodoro Petkoff called it a "Christmas ambush," writing in his daily Tal Cual that Chavez is preparing totalitarian measures that amount to "a brutal attack ... against democratic life."

In his nearly 12 years in office, the leftist Chavez has been granted temporary decree powers three times by lawmakers, in 1999, 2001 and 2007.

The last time, he enjoyed special legislative powers for 18 months and used them to seize control of privately run oil fields, impose new taxes and nationalize telecommunications, electricity and cement companies.

Chavez supporters have dominated the National Assembly since the opposition boycotted 2005 elections, but the opposition gained ground in September elections.

Starting Jan. 5, Chavez will face 66 opponents among the 165 lawmakers, a group large enough to challenge some government measures and prevent him from holding a two-thirds majority — the threshold needed to approve some laws, such as granting the president decree powers.

I'm just guessing here, but he will probably issue a decree that gives him more than one year of ruling by decree.

Same shit, another Leftist paradise...


Steve

I hope obunghole isn't paying attention.

What could go wrong?

Where is Brutus when we need him?

My first decree is that I am now King.  My heirs will rule forever.  All together now "Long live the King!"



 

Seriously do people not read history at ALL?
What could possibly go wrong?

He looks like a Mexican Drug lord slummin as a central American Socialist leader .

Solo por uno ano Amigo's ..... en serio. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)


Lyin Lefty Asshole.

"Oh no, it's only for a year.  Promise, cross my heart, hope to die, cherry on top, all of that, really."

Been wondering how long it would take for him to do this.  Apparently he follows history.

The people have voted their choice. But apparently Chavez knows more about what's good for them than they do. Fortunately he's there to step in and save them from themselves.

Amazing isnt it. More amazing is that you founding father already knew this was a fundamental human trait and sought to guard against it.

Just this week I saw where he is going to start getting the gov to filter/restrict Internet access similar to what China does, control the information and access to the outside world.

Well, I have full confidence that the Venezuelan citizens will take up arms and stop this tyrant.

Wait.  What's that?  They don't?  So, they have no way to defend themselves against a tyrannical government?  Huh.  I didn't know that.

Well, then, looks like they're up shit creek.

TC

He has funny Earlobes ...

The good thing about a dictator is that they're ONLY in office for LIFE.

Ask Idi Amin.

Check out this dingbat comment

Sure, just one year.

Obama would be green with envy if Chavez manages to pull it off.

Was it eppisode 1 or 2 that covered this??  I hope they saw it down there.

Sad how familiar much of Chavez's rhetoric has become here in the US. Did the democrats take the pass shit the people don't want on Christmas eve tactic from them or did they take it from the democrats?

I'd like to rule by decree for just six months.  That should be enough time for me.  

This could end up being an excellent object lesson for ..well anyone with a brain...and hopefully a closet full of NO.

Remember when Obama tried to silence FOX?  I suppose that he really thought he could pull a Chavez.

No doubt, Obama would like Mt. Rushmore to be rebuilt with he, Fidel, Chavez, and Karl Marx.

Yes, Obama has a dream...

well. so did this guy.. who as also a 'socialist' (national socialist 'NAZI')

Venezuelans can stick a fork in it, they will not be removing Chavez from power any time soon.

The problem with President for Life is that the only way to remove him from office is to cut his term short.



In Before Potato Head Catches A Lead Slug.



 

Worked out well for the Cubans

"an incredible revolution.........a democratic revolution."

So do I.

I fail to see why the Chavez problem wasn't solved long before now.

Thugs like this should be dealt with quickly and quietly long before they have a chance to spread their cancer or ally themselves with others of their ilk.

Why hasn't someone put that asshole in the ground already?

Tell that to the North Koreans.

Never allow a good crisis to go to waste.


I cannot help but imagine a similar response by our own President.

His horrible policies are finally catching up on him, esp. the food shortages as a result of his land distribution and government groceries.  They are going to have to run that pig out of office at the end of a bayonet.  He needs to be put against a wall and done in Ceausescu style.

+1



 

Hey........stop that!