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Bush's and Maduro's Power Grabsby Jacob G. HornbergerMar. 25, 2015 |
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 The Venezuelan legislature has just granted President Nicolas Maduro’s request for emergency powers to deal with the crisis posed by President Obama’s recent decree that Venezuela poses a grave threat to U.S. “national security” and Obama’s imposition of sanctions on Venezuelan officials. Not surprisingly, U.S. conservatives are ridiculing Maduro for exaggerating the threat posed by the U.S. national-security state and using it as an excuse for assuming extraordinary powers. But where were those same conservatives when President Bush did the same thing after the 9/11 attacks? I’ll tell you were they were: they were doing the same thing that the Venezuelan legislature is doing — deferring to authority and letting Bush assume the same types of extraordinary powers that Maduro is now acquiring. Read More 
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