[goldstategop]

Enabling law... another dictator had one passed to end his dependence on the elected legislature. We all know where Chavez's socialist revolution is heading - towards a totalitarian despotism.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[popdonnelly]

Go to Hell yourself, Hugo, and take your leftist American friends with you.

[littleflower]

Venezuela will blow before the decade is over.

Chavez might be strung up before then.

[denydenydeny]

"We're free here, and every day we'll be more free."

These people just love to unintentionally quote Orwell, don't they?

[Msgt USMC]

Castro-wanna-be, a two-bit banana republic blow-hard. This guy'll get overthrown in a couple years, just like every other megalomaniac before him. It's the Latin American way!

[mware]

gringos go to hell"

I wonder if that included Cindy?

[bassmaner]

Venezuela's legislature this week is expected to fully approve the Enabling Law that would give Chavez 18 months to decree legislation.

I remember reading about an "Enabling Act" passed by the German Reichstag in 1934 for a similar reason. The more things change ...