Posted on 11/16/2009, 6:01:08 AM by pissant
Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican known for his efforts to block influence domestic immigration and health-care issues, has scored a foreign-policy coup by helping to compel the Obama administration to shift its stance on strife-ridden Honduras.
After demanding for months that deposed Honduran President Mel Zelaya be restored to power, senior State Department officials now say they'll accept the outcome of Nov. 29 elections in the Central American country even if Zelaya doesn't reclaim his post.
"We support the elections process there," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Thursday. "We have provided technical assistance. ... These elections will be important to restoring Democratic and constitutional order in Honduras."
That position is a marked change from the tough stance President Barack Obama took in the days following the June 28 removal of Zelaya, when Honduran soldiers launched a dawn raid and whisked him away in his pajamas.
"We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the democratically elected president there," Obama said the day after Zelaya's ouster.
DeMint, by contrast, cited a Honduran Supreme Court ruling, later approved by the Honduran Congress, that the military had followed constitutional provisions in removing Zelaya and installing Roberto Micheletti as interim president.
While the U.S. government froze aid and took other punitive steps, DeMint held up two State Department nominations all summer and into the fall.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Who in Honduras wants that certified loon, with his Jew-Ray-ban sunglasses, now? The White House has bowed (errrrr...) to the obvious.
Thank you Senator!! We must do what is right!!!!!
Amen!
I noticed.
DeMint is on my radar now.
Good job.
welcome news
Great Job Sen. Demint. Now is the time to tackle the real Communist coup in America. We don’t have much time left.
“State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Thursday. “We have provided technical assistance.”
Sent ACORN down there, eh?
Personally, I think Jim DeMint is presidential material.
We're all screwed when Honduras ignores the US. Of course, Honduras was simply going by their own laws, but it's staggering to me how quickly Obama has diminished the importance of the United States in matters of the world.
Way to go, Senator Jim DeMint. Among the top 2-3 (if not the best) U.S. GOP senator!!!
Senator Lindsey Graham (R.SC).......a profile in compromise.
Leni
Linseed is a profile in huffing McCain’s farts.
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