Sometimes when you're a news junkie like myself, you assume things that are just being announced as news already happened. Up to a point, this was the case two nights ago when I read on the CBS 2 Chicago, in an exclusive, that former House Speaker Denny Hastert (R-IL) would not run for another term next year.
Since I've been reading on Illinois blogs and various MSM sites about several candidates of both parties positioning themselves to run in Hastert's suburban Chicago/rural northern Illinois district, I was surprised that the local and national media made a big deal about the story. I'd already accepted the former Yorkville High School wrestling coach's departure from public life as fact.
Far south of Hastert's home in Plano is Caracas, Venezuela, where its president, Hugo Chavez, holds court in front of a bunch of sycophants. Associated Press is reporting tonight that Chavez is calling for changes to Venezuela's constitution that would eliminate term limits, paving the way for Chavez to become president-for-life. (Okay, AP didn't phrase it that way, but it should have.)
As with Hastert's upcoming retirement, I thought Chavez had already gotten rid of term limits.
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