Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Venezuela & US: Freakishly Eerie Similarities
Hugo Chávez seeks to catch them young
A hastily passed education law is part of the president’s plan to take control of all aspects of Venezuelan society
What is apparent is that the law was not framed in parliament but by a team of ideologues in the presidential palace. Legislators suspect Cuban specialists had a hand in it, along with radicals from the Spanish left in Mr Chávez’s close circle.
University rectors say the hasty way the law was passed violated both parliamentary norms and the constitution. They were tear-gassed when they approached parliament as it was being debated, to try to deliver a document criticising its content. But a campaign of peaceful resistance is gathering strength.
Since winning a referendum in February abolishing term limits (thus allowing him to seek re-election again in 2012), Mr Chávez has stepped up the pace of his revolution. He has taken powers and funds from mayors and governors, clamped down on independent trade unions and broadcasters, and passed a law which will allow the government-controlled electoral authority to gerrymander constituency boundaries. A wilting economy and a lack of money to spend on his ambitious welfare programmes have begun to sap Mr Chávez’s popularity, forcing him to keep casting around for fresh scapegoats.
In his weekly broadcast on August 16th he promised a stimulus package but gave no indication of how he would pay for it. With public dissent growing, his response has been to stifle sources of independent thinking, be they private television channels, trade unions, the church or the schools and universities. However, once he has achieved complete dominance over them all, there will be no one left to blame for the country’s ills but himself.
Limestone Commentary
We're probably a failed treasury auction or two away from a banana republic. Obama had Pelosi/Reid draft the $800 BILLION and they did so with the help of special interest groups. He is doing the same thing with OBAMACARE (outsourcing) and asking the radicals to shove this transformational "bill" down our throats (despite overwhelming public/citizen opposition). Meanwhile the MSM marginalizes the opposition by portraying any act of civil disobedience as organized thuggery.
As the economy worsens he (and his enablers) thrash about searching for scapegoats. The witch hunt at the CIA is red meat for lefty radicals chasing a phantom menace while providing a thinly veiled (wink, wink on the 'we weed up') smoke screen against his untenable/unsustainable deficits (all hyper-accelerated by his partisan wish list - cap and trade, national health care).
One final thought...Obama also equals Chávez in ideological heroes. Obama has Alinsky/Wright while his South American equal has Bolívar/Gramsci.
A hastily passed education law is part of the president’s plan to take control of all aspects of Venezuelan society
What is apparent is that the law was not framed in parliament but by a team of ideologues in the presidential palace. Legislators suspect Cuban specialists had a hand in it, along with radicals from the Spanish left in Mr Chávez’s close circle.
University rectors say the hasty way the law was passed violated both parliamentary norms and the constitution. They were tear-gassed when they approached parliament as it was being debated, to try to deliver a document criticising its content. But a campaign of peaceful resistance is gathering strength.
Since winning a referendum in February abolishing term limits (thus allowing him to seek re-election again in 2012), Mr Chávez has stepped up the pace of his revolution. He has taken powers and funds from mayors and governors, clamped down on independent trade unions and broadcasters, and passed a law which will allow the government-controlled electoral authority to gerrymander constituency boundaries. A wilting economy and a lack of money to spend on his ambitious welfare programmes have begun to sap Mr Chávez’s popularity, forcing him to keep casting around for fresh scapegoats.
In his weekly broadcast on August 16th he promised a stimulus package but gave no indication of how he would pay for it. With public dissent growing, his response has been to stifle sources of independent thinking, be they private television channels, trade unions, the church or the schools and universities. However, once he has achieved complete dominance over them all, there will be no one left to blame for the country’s ills but himself.
Limestone Commentary
We're probably a failed treasury auction or two away from a banana republic. Obama had Pelosi/Reid draft the $800 BILLION and they did so with the help of special interest groups. He is doing the same thing with OBAMACARE (outsourcing) and asking the radicals to shove this transformational "bill" down our throats (despite overwhelming public/citizen opposition). Meanwhile the MSM marginalizes the opposition by portraying any act of civil disobedience as organized thuggery.
As the economy worsens he (and his enablers) thrash about searching for scapegoats. The witch hunt at the CIA is red meat for lefty radicals chasing a phantom menace while providing a thinly veiled (wink, wink on the 'we weed up') smoke screen against his untenable/unsustainable deficits (all hyper-accelerated by his partisan wish list - cap and trade, national health care).
One final thought...Obama also equals Chávez in ideological heroes. Obama has Alinsky/Wright while his South American equal has Bolívar/Gramsci.
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