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The Chavez Democrat connection

Who would see a communist dictator as the saviour?

Joe Kennedy’s back, playing Santa Chavez with a new sleigh full of Venezuelan heating oil for “the poor.” The tropical dictator’s politicized “gift,” however, comes with strings. We see Joe dancing on them. ~ibdeditorials.com

The left and Chavez are on the same page. They are leftists.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged his Latin American allies on Saturday to begin withdrawing billions of dollars in international reserves from U.S. banks, warning of a looming U.S. economic crisis.

What? Capitalism is finally about to collapse!

Chavez warned that U.S. “imperialism is entering into a crisis that can affect all of us” and said Latin America “will save itself alone.”

The enemies of America.

Chavez said a new fund created by Venezuela and Iran to support projects in third countries would have links to the ALBA Bank.   ~news.yahoo.com

100% of Americans go hungry everyday!

My lie detector is buzzing. The headline reads, “One in Ten Americans Went Hungry Last Year.” Now why do I think that this is, at the very least, hyperbolic exaggeration and at worse an outright lie? Perhaps because the USDA is practicing ‘the semantic arts’ rather than reporting the facts.

More than one in 10 people in the United States go hungry, according to new official figures that suggest government food programs are falling short in the world’s wealthiest country.

More than 35 million people in a country of some 294 million went hungry last year, 390,000 more than in 2005, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Household Food Security report. ~alternet.org

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Invoking a terrifying enemy

Bush is Hitler!

Fascism or socialism? A false choice to be sure, but one to which committed leftist-liberals are fixated. The fever swamp is buzzing with excitement because Naomi Wolf, onetime advisor to Presidential candidate Al Gore, has looked at the patterns of history and has found that Bush is Hitler! Who would have thunk? Continue reading Invoking a terrifying enemy

March of the Red Shirts

The world waits expectantly for the culmination of history. “A different world is possible!” Well, at least a different world is possible in Venezuela, but only if voters approve the reforms that will make Hugo Chavez dictator-for-life. Yes, it does seem like this “different world” is not so different from all the other dictatorships we can recall from the history of socialism. Continue reading March of the Red Shirts

Speaking for us all

The King of Spain speaks for us all.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to “shut up” Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.  ~breitbart.com

Booyah!

It’s nice to hear the voice of reason amongst the global elites now and then.

The 1977 Soviet Constitution

Counterfeit freedoms

“Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and the right to religious belief and worship…” all were enshrined in the Soviet Constitution. There could be no better example of the difference between the the promises of positive rights and the practical application of them than the 1977 Soviet Constitution.

Far left progressives, like Hugo Chavez and his Hollywood fellow travelers, will give you assurances that you would have more rights under leftist regimes; but in reality such rights would not be worth the paper they’re printed on. Continue reading The 1977 Soviet Constitution

Democracy = Violent Revolution

Chavez and Castro, et al, understand that peace is often a violent process. That is, the first thing a communist thinks of when contemplating a change of government is executing all the old guard. It’s called a purge in commie speak.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba on Wednesday accused U.S. President George W. Bush of encouraging violent uprising against its communist government with a speech in which Bush urged Cubans to push for democratic change.  ~reuters.com

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Sen. Reid highly unpopular

How can this be? After regaining the majority in congress Democrat leaders have sprung into action, cleaning up the (Republican) culture of corruption and continuing to promise an end to the Bushitler-Blitztkrieg-war-on-all-humanity in Iraq. What more could the American people want?

Molly Ball of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Senator Harry Reid’s favorable rating in Nevada has “plunged dramatically,” according to a new poll. Currently, Reid’s favorable rating is at 32%, while his unfavorable rating is at 51%, a net 23-point drop from the last poll taken in early May when Reid scored a 46/42 favorable/unfavorable rating.

Ball reports this is the first time Reid’s unfavorable rating has eclipsed his favorable rating. It also puts him below the favorable ratings recorded by President Bush and radio host Rush Limbaugh, among others:  ~time-blog.com

Perhaps the precipitious drop is the difference between the reality-based community and reality. Perhaps progressive policies are not as wildly popular as liberals seem to think they are.