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Friday, September 22, 2006
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Don't pray for me, Venezuela
by Rich Galen
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  • While official Washington (and the talking heads attached thereto) are wearing out their worry beads over what to do about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' ridiculous rant at the United Nations, most regular Americans are perfectly at ease: Make public the transactions between any US company and Venezuela and let the American consumer decide how to punish that kind of activity.

  • No treaty violations. No official sanctions. Just let us know and we'll take care of it.

  • For those who missed class this week, ole Hugo went to the United Nations and treated his speech like a Passion Play in Caracas during Carnaval.

  • According to Maggie Farley writing in the LA Times:

    • "Standing at the lectern where Bush had delivered his speech the day before, Chavez said, 'Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here.' He crossed himself. 'Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today.'"

  • Venezuela, in 2005 shipped about $34 Billion worth of goods to the US of which about $30 Billion was oil and petroleum derivatives.

  • Cut them off. Stop importing Venezuelan crude oil, fuel oil or "other petroleum products."

  • Here's the rule: If an American can't take it into the cabin of a commercial airplane, we don't want it shipped in. Simple enough?

  • I would be perfectly happy to have gasoline prices go right back to where they were last month if it meant letting Hugo have to bathe in unsold crude.

  • Ok. The last line of the paragraph from Farley's piece read - and pay attention because this is the important part: "Many diplomats in the vaulted chamber laughed and clapped."

  • Oh. Really? Thought it was funny? On the theory that many of the "many diplomats in the vaulted hall" are from what we used to call Third World countries (and now, for political correctness reasons call them "Developing" countries) let's get a video tape and carefully note which clapping and laughing diplomats represent which of those countries and immediately cut of any foreign aid. None. Zero. Bupkus.
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    Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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    Reply # 1
    Date: Sep 24, 2006 - 10:33 AM EST
    Majority of the population???
    "FOWG writes: Saturday, September, 23, 2006

    Natsneaky: An insult aimed at the President hits the entire country. You might remember that the office is filled by a person elected by the population of all the states."

    I am not insulted by the remarks, silly as they were, -- and I am one of the vast majority of the population, of all of the states, that did not vote for Bush.

    According to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html Population: 295,734,134

    Votes for Bush 62,040,606.

    He would have had to have received 147,867,067 for even 50% of the population, of all of the states.

    62,040,606 seems like a vast minority of the population, of all of the states.
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    Reply # 2
    Date: Sep 23, 2006 - 10:26 PM EST
    sneaky
    Congratulations on being a Libertarian. The most of us who got mad as He** at that Moonbat Chavez is not because he bashed Bush, as you thought. He bashed the President of the United States, on our territory. I don't believe that they country should have ever let the Bast***d into the country in the first place. Secondly we should all look at the census Report about the good that come into this country and stop buying them from Venezuela, that will not hurt the people there as they probably don't get any monetary gain, most likely goes to Chavez. I got that list yesterday and mailed to everyone on my list.I don't give a damm how high gas goes, we should stop importing it from him. Just tell him to go to he**
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