Reply #134: Democrats Warn Chavez: Don't Bash Bush (Charlie Rangel)

[Bacchus39]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/21/chavez.ny/index.html

hats off to Charlie for defending the USA after Chavez's insult.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two of President Bush's staunchest domestic critics leapt to his defense Thursday, a day after one of his fiercest foreign foes called him "the devil" in a scorching speech before the United Nations.

"You don't come into my country; you don't come into my congressional district and you don't condemn my president," Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, scolded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, was blunt in her criticism of the Venezuelan leader. "He is an everyday thug," she said. (Watch Rangel rip Chavez -- 1:28 )