[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Caracas does not speak for Washington and his skit was "inappropriate," the State Department said

Yet another example of Newt being right about State. This dithering beaurocrates would have maintained a Cold War with Nazi Germany if the military hadn't destroyed them. These complicite fools make me ill. Chavez is an outright Marxist, and he is holding his oil hostage.

[hchutch]

Newt went overboard, but the underlying problems are pretty darn clear, if you want my opinion.

The smart moves would have been to have backed that earlier coup, NOT place the AUC on the same blacklist as al-Qaeda, and to stop taking the crap we take from Cuba that we have taken. However, when it comes to Latin America, there is a fifth column, and I think it has protection from at least one Senator (Dodd), possibly more.

It may also extend to the MidEast, but in that case, it's an appeasement mentality that may or may not have Congressional protection from some of the same folks who tried to get in the way of Reagan's anti-communist efforts in the 1980s or their ideological heirs.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yet another example of Newt being right about State. T

This happened a while back. It must have been sitting in Chavez's craw and he's demanded an apology from the U.S. They should have told him to go find a sense of humor.