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As we continue to read and hear from various news outlets, Junior Bush (AKA Preznit Chimpy McShithead -- thanks, Tom!) is still busily working to set himself up as Maximum Leader of our government; just yesterday it was announced that he issued an executive order placing a political appointee in each and every federal agency to keep its work and public statements in line with Regime policy. (See International Herald Tribune story here.)
As it turns out, however, even our Imperial President II is a piker compared with Venezuela's radical-leftist President, Hugo Chavez, who, fresh from overwhelmingly winning a second six-year term, has now begun laying the groundwork to make himself President-for-Life of his country and arrogating unto that office broad and as-yet-not-fully-defined powers. (See BusinessWeek Online story here.) While I may agree with at least one or two of his policy ideas (getting more of the income from Venezuela's rich oil fields into the hands of people lower down on the economic ladder, frex), this does not excuse such naked power-grabbing. As Messrs. Niven, Pournelle and Flynn showed us in Fallen Angels, tyranny of the extreme left can be every bit as bad, in its own way, as that of the extreme right.
Let us all devoutly hope that (a) a majority of Venezuelans wise up and get rid of this hijo de la puta PDQ, and that (b) he doesn't give Junior any worse ideas than he's already having.
As it turns out, however, even our Imperial President II is a piker compared with Venezuela's radical-leftist President, Hugo Chavez, who, fresh from overwhelmingly winning a second six-year term, has now begun laying the groundwork to make himself President-for-Life of his country and arrogating unto that office broad and as-yet-not-fully-defined powers. (See BusinessWeek Online story here.) While I may agree with at least one or two of his policy ideas (getting more of the income from Venezuela's rich oil fields into the hands of people lower down on the economic ladder, frex), this does not excuse such naked power-grabbing. As Messrs. Niven, Pournelle and Flynn showed us in Fallen Angels, tyranny of the extreme left can be every bit as bad, in its own way, as that of the extreme right.
Let us all devoutly hope that (a) a majority of Venezuelans wise up and get rid of this hijo de la puta PDQ, and that (b) he doesn't give Junior any worse ideas than he's already having.