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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GCBill on December 22, 2010, 02:40:41 PM
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Not satisfied with giving St. Hugo absolute power for the next 18 months, the socialists in the Venezuelan National Assembly are clamping down to keep the sheep from straying from the herd:
steven johnson (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-22-10 06:54 AM
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Venezuela to Make Lawmakers Vote With Their Parties
Source: Reuters
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's National Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday to stop lawmakers voting against their political parties in the latest move of a legislative onslaught before a new parliament is seated next month.
Opponents of socialist President Hugo Chavez say the new bill is an attack on the right of Assembly members to vote with their consciences in South America's biggest oil producer.
The outgoing parliament, which is dominated by members of Chavez's ruling Socialist Party, has passed a raft of laws in recent days including one that lets the former soldier bypass the next Assembly and rule by decree for 18 months.
Tuesday's bill was denounced by a small group of lawmakers who split with Chavez's self-styled revolution. The president of parliament, Cilia Flores, said the new legislation would stop other members from switching sides during the next Assembly.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/12/21/world/international-us-venezuela-politics-law.html?ref=world
Far beyond party pressure, having your party's whip hound you for a vote, the lemmings are required BY LAW to vote with the gang!
Forget voting your conscience. Forget evolving your position in the light of new facts. No! Hugo says "Jump" you say "How high?"
Naturally, the Yugoistas are ready to stand by their man. Beth thinks it is heralding a new era of even more open government:
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-22-10 12:32 PM
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32. Hilarious. Omfg, Venezuela may pass a bill for greater transparency in government!
OMFG, damn you, HUGO!
LOL
Bewildred is not sure if it will pass legal muster, but if it does, no biggie:
bemildred (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-22-10 08:50 AM
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9. I don't think its going to work so good, or stand up in court.
But I can't say it worries me much either.
But David the 77th thinks the idea is peachy keen!
David__77 (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-22-10 10:11 AM
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21. I have no problem with this.
People vote for parties' programs. If someone wants to be an independent, let them run as such. Too many times, in this country too, people were elected to do something, and then when they are not subject to party discipline, they flip over to a whole different program.
Still waiting on the Judi Lynn and Peace Patriot spins.
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-22-10 12:32 PM
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32. Hilarious. Omfg, Venezuela may pass a bill for greater transparency in government!
OMFG, damn you, HUGO!
LOL
Uh huh forcing people to vote a certain way at gunpoint is so transparent. :whatever:
Can you imagine if here in the US all the Democrats were forced by law to vote for the so called tax cut deal?
The party in power would rule with an iron fist then.
Beth really is stupid.
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Just damn. Transparency in government? I hope she sucks off a shotgun before the next election, people that stupid should be banned from electronic media and then branded or tattooed on their face so anybody they talk to in person will know in advance to ignore anything they say.
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For those keeping score, lock-step = transparency.
The DUmpmonkeys should have a VPO issued from dictionaries.
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For those keeping score, lock-step = transparency.
The DUmpmonkeys should have a VPO issued from dictionaries.
It is transparency. Hugo says this is the way it is and the legislature says OK. You can't see it happen more clearly than that!
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Beth you ignorant SLUT! So I guess it's just fine if one's constituents disagree with a bill, it's just tough luck, you have to vote against them, huh?
Boy that's somethin' all right, but I don't think even Castro would call it transparency! I know you hate the word, but I'd call it tyranny!
Once again you have provin' to be the most ignorant slut on the interwebs!
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Beth you ignorant SLUT! So I guess it's just fine if one's constituents disagree with a bill, it's just tough luck, you have to vote against them, huh?
Boy that's somethin' all right, but I don't think even Castro would call it transparency! I know you hate the word, but I'd call it tyranny!
Once again you have provin' to be the most ignorant slut on the planet
Fixxed
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The outgoing parliament, which is dominated by members of Chavez's ruling Socialist Party, has passed a raft of laws in recent days including one that lets the former soldier bypass the next Assembly and rule by decree for 18 months.
Anybody know what the difference between these chumps and the democrats?
2054.5 miles.
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It is transparency. Hugo says this is the way it is and the legislature says OK. You can't see it happen more clearly than that!
Yup. You got it Randy.
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This is what always turns out of the great socialist/fascist/communist experiment.
To any DUchebag lurkers, there is no such thing as a "Benevolent Dictator".
This kind of shit is only a few years/months from going on right here in what used to be the USA.