Pot Tells Kettle To Stuff It
As has been widely reported: Chavez tells U.S. government: ‘Go to hell’. Having won multiple elections by overwhelming majorities, and with a legislature controlled by his supporters, Mr. Chavez doesn’t want to waste time submitting his decisions to that legislature, so he had them pass a law that allows him to rule by decree for 18 months.
The US government has raised all kinds of complaints about Mr. Chavez’s “anti-democratic” actions, without explaining the difference between what he is doing and what the Shrubbery has been doing for 6 years with a Republican Congress and no oversight.
I would note that Mr. Chavez has very high approval ratings, hasn’t invaded anyone, and doesn’t have a huge budget deficit, so there are differences between his presidency and the Shrubbery’s.
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Chavez’s injunction does pose a philosophical question: can you go where you already are?
It’s time for a Lackoff v. Luntz cage match over framing and word use.
It’s the same issue I have with the Christianists – given that wherever they are sent would be part of my definition of hell, it looks like we are condemned to an eternity together with one of thinking that it is heaven and the other knowing it was hell.