Oh, this is rich

In an unfolding scandal over hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal contributions to the campaign of Argentina’s new president Cristina Kirchner, the US Government claims that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez “uses his country’s oil wealth to illegally meddle in the politics” of other countries.

* cough * splutter *

It is, of course, unheard of in the USA that a government would throw its own resources into meddling in the politics of other countries.