Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro gets special powers

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro gets special powers
Venezuela's National Assembly has given final approval to special powers for President Nicolas Maduro. Under the measures Mr Maduro will be able to govern without consulting Congress for 12 months. After signing the bill, he promised to keep prices down and conduct a "ground-shaking" anti-corruption offensive. 


wow, this sounds like something off Star Wars...  how long before Obama does the same thing here in the U.S.?  oh, wait, he already is...  

President Obama tramples the Constitution again, and finally there’s some outrage
Obama’s decision to suspend the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) for a year “raises grave concerns about his understanding of the role of the executive in our system of government.” And with his epic announcement at a press conference last Thursday that he has decided to suspend the regulations that caused the termination of millions of Americans’ health insurance plans (supposedly because they were “substandard”), he was at it again. Specifically, Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution states that the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” and McConnell emphasizes that “this is a duty, not a discretionary power. While the president does have substantial discretion about how to enforce a law, he has no discretion about whether to do so.”