Excellent: Opposition crushes socialists in Venezuela election, wins legislative majority

If "the best of the revolution is yet to come," as Venezuela's socialists are fond of promising, the word hasn't filtered down to regular citizens who have a hard time laying their hands on basic necessities like milk and toilet paper. The left-wing paradise established by the late Hugo Chavez has been a disaster for the average citizen, and last night Venezuelans did something about it in overwheliming numbers - giving opposition candidates a massive majority in the National Assembly, and severely limiting the power of Chavez successor Nicolas Maduro to keep pushing state control and imprisonment of political opponents. Unfortunately, the opposition does not exactly consist of a bunch of supply-siders:

Ecstatic opposition leaders vowed on Monday to use their new majority in Venezuela's legislature to free jailed opponents of the Socialist government but also said they would not move to dismantle popular welfare policies.