Yesterday in a national broadcast, Rev. Pat Robertson called for US covert forces to murder the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Such an act would violate countless international treaties, Federal Law, and, last time I checked, the 10 Commandments...which Roberston argues so vocally should be allowed in courts and schools.

I'm sorry, I missed the place in the Gospel where Jesus endorsed the murder of extremist leaders of foreign lands.

Don't get me wrong, I think Chavez is a proto-populist jerk, who uses the U.S. as his regular whipping boy to prevent the rise of any real opposition. He has used violence to suppress opposition, but he retains a 70 percent popularity rate among the people who elected him.

But all of Chavez's faults aside, for a minister of the gospel to call for his murder due to his anti-American stance is beyond heresy...it is the complete surrender of the gospel of Christ to the gospel of the United States.

Pat...enough is enough. Your moral authority bank is hopelessly overdrawn; time to declare you bankrupt and move along. Take your millions and go feed and clothe the homeless for a few years...