Reply #21: Interesting. These two pieces seem to explain why the Repubs have been slobbering all over this.

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And, they do make it appear as though it is business as usually. I can see however, where the administration would not want to be associated to closely with Hugo Chávez and the Repubs would support a coup leader rather than the legal president. What dirty business. I do not like the $$$ angle here or the personal ties to Clinton.

I noticed that my original link was buried almost immediately and you have to google directly to even find it now even though it was prominently posted on Yahoo News. Maybe that is just a coincidence, but there would be good reason on the part of our administration to just bury what is transpiring now.