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July 29, 2006

Carnival of Leftist Corruption - International Edition

The Democrats LOVE leftist, anti-semitic, Bush-hater and dictator Hugo Chavez.

There's Jesse Jackson: Democrat, leftist.

Here's Democrat, leftist, media hero, Cindy Sheehan (get along home).

Then there's our dodged bullet, John Kerry and William Delehunt (who brokered a deal with him for welfare oil for MA's poor).

Don't forget Harry "Bush is the world's biggest terrorist" Belafonte, leftist Democrat.

Newsweek, to its credit, has a piece on the growing corruption in the Chavez government and (luckily for the US) the growing public dissatisfaction with his government:

The Velázquez affair is just one symptom of the cancer eating away at Chávez's so-called Bolivarian Revolution. The Venezuelan leader, who turns 52 later this month, swept to power in the 1998 presidential election on an anti-graft platform. But in the intervening years, the soaring price of oil has flooded government coffers with petrodollars and fanned the same endemic corruption that thoroughly discredited Venezuela's two major political parties in the 1990s. As part of his commitment to end poverty within 20 years, Chávez has lavished government largesse on a plethora of welfare programs mostly devoid of parliamentary oversight or any other supervision. Not surprisingly, vast sums of money have stuck to the wrong hands, and most polls show that corruption now ranks among the top three concerns of ordinary citizens. "Only 18 percent of voters think the government is resolving the issue," notes Caracas pollster Alfredo Keller.

The problem has captured Chávez's attention. Mindful of the parallels that critics can draw to the kleptocracy that preceded his ascent, Chávez has OK'd a few high-profile investigations led by a congressional audit commission. He personally has not set the most inspiring of examples; several family members occupy choice government posts. But the corruption issue has nonetheless become a source of mounting frustration for him, judging from a recent presidential outburst. "I swear that in cases like these," fumed Chávez in January, "if I could have people shot I would." Pro-government legislators share the concern. "If the government doesn't put a stop to corruption," warns congressional audit-commission vice president Eustoquio Contreras, "corruption will put a stop to the government."

Trust me, he is going to start shooting people. He is trying to change the constitution so he can be president for life. If that fails or if he is voted out of office - the guise of being for the "little people" will wash away. That won't stop the left in this country from loving him. They will just claim the neocons in Venezuela tried to steal the election.

Posted by Aaron at July 29, 2006 08:49 PM

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