Since losing his party's supermajority in last Sunday's election in which a coalition of opposition parties took seats Chavez is making moves to hasten his plans for nationalization of Venezuela:

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday vowed to move forward on the nationalization of land owned by a subsidiary of British meat products company Vestey, as he called for "acceleration of the agrarian revolution."

A week after opposition parties were emboldened by a strong showing in legislative elections, Chavez used his first television program since the vote to announce moves to strengthen his self-styled revolutionary government.

"All of the lands of the so-called Compania Inglesa will be nationalized now," Chavez said, referring to the subsidiary of Britain's international food giant Vestey.

"I don't want to waste another day," he added.

Chavez called for the acceleration of nationalizing agricultural assets across the country in coming months, including land and property owned by Venezuelan farming technology company Agroislena.

"Free the land, free the slave labor," Chavez said the address, calling for the take-over that will "feed our people." [...]

Which explains how he intends to now "radicalize" after Venezuela election:

CARACAS – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed to "radicalize" his socialist revolution even further after legislative elections that gave the opposition one of its strongest showings during his more than 11 years in power.

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Chavez's ruling Socialist Party won last weekend's vote by a slim margin, taking 5.45 million votes or 48.9 percent compared with 5.33 million votes or 47.9 percent for the newly united Democratic Unity umbrella group.

The result lifted the optimism of the opposition, which now sees a chance to unseat Chavez in 2012 presidential elections.

Investors and analysts are waiting to see the reaction of a man who has in the past come out of elections by nationalizing swathes of industry, including millions of acres of agricultural land, and attacking private capital.

"We are going to continue forward, democratically radicalizing the socialist revolution because it is necessary," Chavez said late on Saturday to a television audience.

He dismissed the opposition celebration of a moral victory as "15 minutes of drunkenness."

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And apparently Hugo is expecting trouble from the masses because he now is pushing for arming his civilian Bolivarian Militia and putting them on patrol 24/7:

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that members of the country's civilian militia should be issued weapons to be on patrol at all times.

The Bolivarian Militia is a force of volunteers ranging from students to retirees formed in recent years by Chavez, who says it is a crucial component of the nation's defenses.

Until now, members of the militia have regularly trained at weekend boot camps, but their guns have usually been locked away in military depots when not in use.

"Who has seen a militia without weapons?" Chavez said during his Sunday television and radio program. He said he was surprised when he met some militiamen standing guard recently and learned they had no guns.

"The militias are the people with weapons in hand," Chavez told an audience including military officers and high-ranking officials in rural Guarico state.

"We need to break old paradigms because we're still seeing the militias as if they were a complementary force, some battalions that get together once a month over there, or go and march somewhere," Chavez said. "No, buddy. The militia is a permanent territorial unit and it should be armed, equipped and trained - campesinos, workers."

Chavez also suggested that the country should accelerate the formation of militia units. [...]

Makes me ponder Obama's reaction (and that of his lame-duck democrat controlled Congress) after the 11.2 earthquake in a month:

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Obama is no less out of touch than the Kerry whom America watched windsurf before the 2004 election -- the same man who said last week that one reason Democrats will lose this year is that "we have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on, so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what's happening."

Here's where Kerry and Obama are both wrong: The electorate that was influenced by a simple slogan -- "Yes, we can" -- in 2008 actually is very well-informed.

This time, that electorate isn't voting for a dream, but for its pocketbook.

And if Republicans are lucky enough to win, they'd best remember that those voters will hold them accountable.