Pat Robertson is Right

You know it's slow in Washington when every media station in the country picks up on Pat Robertson's comments that the U.S. would be better off if we assassinated Hugo Chavez. First of all, Robertson is correct. Chavez is trying desperately to bring Latin America down into Cuba's form of repression and if assassination were a possibility, it should be done. (Who wouldn't have advocated for Saddam's death during the 1990s? - that is, until Bush actually did remove him from office, when he became the Left's martyr...)

Secondly, many people on the Left have said the same thing about assassinating President Bush and the media simply yawned. Funny how that works - "protect the communists" is still a popular rallying cry.