Posted on 08/15/2007 4:48:55 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Chávez to Propose Removing His Term Limits
By SIMON ROMERO
Published: August 15, 2007
CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 14 — President Hugo Chávez will unveil a project to change the Constitution on Wednesday that is expected to allow him to be re-elected indefinitely, a move that would enhance his authority to accelerate a socialist-inspired transformation of Venezuelan society.
The removal of term limits for Mr. Chávez, which is at the heart of the proposal, is expected to be accompanied by measures circumscribing the authority of elected governors and mayors, who would be prevented from staying in power indefinitely, according to versions of the project leaked in recent weeks.
Willian Lara, the communications minister, said Mr. Chávez would announce the project before the National Assembly, where all 167 lawmakers support the president. Supporters of Mr. Chávez, who was re-elected last year with some 60 percent of the vote, also control the Supreme Court, the entire federal bureaucracy, public oil and infrastructure companies and every state government but two.
The aim of the overhaul is “to guarantee to the people the largest amount of happiness possible,” Mr. Lara said at a news conference on Tuesday.
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This remark is both hilarious and frightening at the same time.
Anyone that didn’t see this coming raise your hand.
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Anyone
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Anybody not see this coming?...
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...crickets...
/S
And the sad thing is the left in this country sees nothing wrong with what he’s doing.
It’s something they wish they could do here because they know what’s best “for the children”.
Unfortunately, rule-for-life is the typical pattern with a dictator, especially a commie one. His term ends when a younger, bigger, badder commie comes along and liquidates him.
Thus history repeats itself yet again...
This is a surprise!!?? Ruthless dictators who squash the people? Nothing new under the sun. And the libs love Hillary.
He’s a dictator! Any American politician who favors him should be voted out of office.
I thought his term ends when he dies of old age.
Hugo Chavez is to_________
happiness
and
nappiness
requires that yo
bring in president jimmy carter
to swear in hugo for life.
So there is no other leftist socialist in the country capablke of being president. Is that Hugo’s position? or just that he is a dictator like all the others leftist leaders and will never leave the power dome. Once elected, always in office.
I guess Pat Roberston was right after all!
What a strange statement from the NYT. Is this propaganda from the Times or from Venezuela?
I'd call the move a bit more than "a socialist-inspired transformation". Along the lines of Hitler or Stalin is more like it.
You are correct. I should have clarified my point - that is, UNLESS a bigger, badder commie comes along...
I mean, like FDR was president for life, y’know.
Looks like there’s some disagreement about this over in DUmmyland.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3451413#3451462
Power to the people . . . {right on) /sarc
Is there a lesson here for us vis’a’vis, say, Hillary?
Well, I sympathize with him. It’s really expensive to have to stage phony elections every four years. ;)
Has Vince Flynn been translated into Spanish?
Keep in mind that the NYT thinks there is nothing unpatriotic about running puff pieces on mass murdering dictators, and the readers of the NYT don't either. Is it any wonder they didn't see through Arafat if they couldn't see through Stalin and Castro? And how they treat Hugo Chavez shows they've learned nothing at the NYT.
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