More Lies, Delusions, Stupidity, Etc.

Hat tip to BoRev for pointing out this idiotic editorial from The Washington Post. I've made some notes on the most egregious statements.

WITH U.S. attention fixed elsewhere, a significant part of Latin America continues to march away from the "Washington consensus" of democracy and free-market capitalism that has governed the region for a generation. The latest step came last week in Ecuador, where voters approved a new constitution [this is somehow undemocratic?] that concentrates power in the hands of President Rafael Correa.... The new constitution repeals a limit on presidential terms that had stood since the country returned to democracy in 1979, and it could allow Mr. Correa to stay in office until 2017 [note: Either McCain or Obama will also be allowed to be in office in the U.S., if elected, until 2017]....

The Bush administration has struggled for years with the question of how to respond to these developments. For the most part it has chosen to sidestep Mr. Chávez's provocations, calculating that his regime will eventually self-destruct -- a bet that looks better with each drop in the price of oil....