[GeronL]

Those things are becoming a challenge for this country too.

[PGalt]

Barack Obama’s physically clinging to the man who would later denounce him as a “clown”?

LOL/grimace….a circus clown or a John Wayne Gacy clown?

[nathanbedford]

The only thing wrong with Venezuela is that the wrong socialists have been running the country. Just as soon as they get the right socialists in charge it will be running as smoothly as Obamacare.

[Prospero]

[Former Proud Canadian]

"Which would be a much lower-cost proposition if there were, say, an expanded pipeline system connecting U.S. refiners to Canadian oil producers."

A secure energy supply allows a country to take the moral high ground in foreign affairs. Canadian PM Harper has formed closer ties to Israel while Obama/Kerry seek the opposite. Canada faced down an attempt at blackmail by the UAE over bases and landing rights. Canada closed the Iranian embassy as the US gets closer to Iran. Harper, seemingly, does not miss an opportunity to stand up to the Arabs.

There is more oil in Northern Alberta than in Saudi Arabia. Trans Canada is offering to pipe that oil to the gulf coast, at no cost to the US. If it had been approved five years ago, Keystone would be operational today. Why has Obama delayed it?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

It should be prepared to do more, including placing an embargo on Venezuelan oil.

Don't tell Joe Kennedy.

“Citizens Energy is ready to move forward with the heating assistance program as soon as the Venezuelans provide us with the oil. Every indicator so far has been that they will help out... We very much hope that the Venezuelans will come through as they did for so many years under President Chavez’s leadership"

Don't hold your breath, Joe.

[cripplecreek]

Unfortunately we have a marxist president and any meddling he does there is bound to make things worse.

[DoodleDawg]

It should be prepared to do more, including placing an embargo on Venezuelan oil.

So I want to pay more for my gasoline to show support for the opposition in Venezuela? Sorry, I don't care that much for them.

[Carry_Okie]

If we have learned anything from the feckless foreign policy of the Obama administration it is that if the United States does not lead, someone will.

The Latin American policy of the Bush administration wasn't much better.

[Bob Mc]

"The government has gone so far as to order the armed occupation of a toilet-paper factory, that commodity being in acute shortage, ..."

I wonder if this toilet paper shortage was brought on by "preppers" who knew where things were headed and began to stock up early on?

[gusopol3]

The listing of Jesse Jackson, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, etc., should have led with Noam Chomsky who certainly would be on a leftist Rushmore with Obama, Alinsky and Piven.

[Travis McGee]

[I want the USA back]

The left doesn’t like it. It’s the wrong people rising up against a oppressive regime. In the leftist mind, it should be the poor oppressed people rising up and ESTABLISHING a leftist regime, not protesting it.

So the left and the media ignore it.

[Hardastarboard]

he claims that the protests are an American plot to destabilize his government, as though the Obama administration were that deft

I initially read "deft" as "left", and I thought, nonsense!

[zeestephen]

"Why can't we go to Caracas, honey?"

Sean Penn and Charlize Theron spend Valentines Day at a five-star ocean front Mexican Resort.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Gotta love the left. One of the excuses for shortages is that the goods are being smuggled out of the country on motorcycles.

Wealthy merchants proceeded to hoard essential goods: corn flour, sugar, salt, cooking oil, toilet paper, etc. placing them in hidden warehouses or spirited off to Colombia through a well-planned smuggling operation. The military discovered an illegal bridge built for motorcycles that carried the smuggled goods.
http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/venezuela-under-attack-again/