Chavez loses vote on new powers in Venezuela

Reuters ^ | Mon Dec 3, 2007 12:32am ET

[Tzimisce]

Somehow, I don’t think this is the end of the reform fight in Venz...

[Darkwolf377]

when his term ends in 2013.

Kind of a hollow victory when he has six years to come up with more of these kinds of stunts to try to extend his rule.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I won’t believe the results until verified by Saint Jimmah Carter.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

NO!

[Lancey Howard]

WoooHooo!!! That means the vote was too big to cheat!

I wonder if Chavez brought in Bill Daley to help him cheat, the way algore did in 2000?

[Army Air Corps]

There will be a “national emergency” that will necessitate the enactment of martial law. El Gordito will find a way to get what he wants.

[Laptop_Ron]

If you can’t even successfully manipulate an election, how good a socialist dictator can you really be? Doesn’t he flunk some major authoritarian test here?
They don’t make dictators like they used to.

[3AngelaD]

Y muchas gracias a El Rey Don Juan Carlos de Espana.

POR QUE NO TE CALLAS?

[Atchafalaya]

I’m speechless. I hope it holds, WOW!

[Waco]

If Chavez doesn’t overturn this Castro may intervene. Commies ain’t gonna roll over so quickly.

[Paleo Conservative]

How long before he demands a recount?

[decal]

So what does Landslide Hugo do now? Accept the results? Not hardly.

[Mike Darancette]

Hugo will say, “George Bush’s Fault” and call another election or just say he won and that is that.

[Atchafalaya]

Like W, Kennedy et al felt after the immigration amnesty pos bill tanked. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!!

[A CA Guy]

He will try this every year for 5 more years until he gets his result to rule as Castro #2.

He needs removing soon.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Does this mean Hillary will have to change her plans so as not to allow the great unwashed to vote on such a power grab if she is elected?

[Brad from Tennessee]

This may be the signal the military has been waiting for to get rid of this bum.

[shield]

I believe you are right...to HUGE to CHEAT...bet he doesn’t last till 2013...HOORAY FOR THE VZ PEOPLE!!!!

[woofie]

thank God for Diebold and Rove

[3AngelaD]

And he is standing in front of a portrait of Simon Bolivar giving this endless speech. He keeps saying, “por ahora, por ahora,” for now, for now, which strikes me as sinister, to say the least. Now he just said the revolutionary government is here. “We know how to convert seeming defeat into moral victories.”