Hugo Chavez is meddling in more than just Bolivia. He’s got a northern front and that’s the U.S.

Using the good offices of willing dupes like Congressman Bill Delahunt and Congressman Jose Serrano, he’s delivering cheap oil through their offices in return for their support in U.S. Congress. Next time Hugo Chavez invades a small country or throws a dissident in jail, he won’t have a thing to worry about in Congress because he’s got his own U.S. Congressmen in the bag with cheap oil. It’s a truly disgusting subversion of democracy and democratic revolution, both in the U.S. and in Venezuela.

Investor’s Business Daily has an editorial showing the abysmal role Chavez’s helpers are playing here, along with notes about their efforts at spin control here and Pedro Burelli has a magnificent piece showing the extent of the Kennedy family’s involvement and its implications for democracy in Venezuela here.