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Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator: DeMint vs Kerry on Honduras
Pat Dollard | Young Americans: What Jim DeMint Heard In Honduras: “There Is No Chaos There”
The Corner on National Review Online: More Stonewalling from the Most Transparent Administration in History -- By: Andy McCarthy
DeMint vs Kerry on Honduras
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator —
... Rachel Maddow equated the Republican trip to Honduras with treason.
No such thing applied, however, when Kerry himself visited Daniel Ortega to condemn Reagan's Central American policy and warmly chum it up with the regime whose national anthem regards the U.S. as "el enemigo de la humanidad!"(the enemy of humanity!")
Unreal.
BTW DeMint pulled an end run around the Democratic ploy and visited Honduras anyway. Today he filed a great article at the WSJ.
What Jim DeMint Heard In Honduras: “There Is No Chaos There”
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Wall Street Journal:
by Jim DeMint
In the last three months, much has been made of a supposed military “coup” that whisked former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from power and the supposed chaos it has created.
After visiting Tegucigalpa last week and meeting with a cross section of leaders from Honduras’s government, business community, and civil society, I can report there is no chaos there. There is, however, chaos to spare in the Obama administration’s policy toward our poor and loyal allies in ...
More Stonewalling from the Most Transparent Administration in History -- By: Andy McCarthy
The Corner on National Review Online —
... Senator Jim Demint writes in the Wall Street Journal about his factfinding visit to Honduras, where Zelaya -- a thuggish would-be dictator who was trying to destroy the rule of law in his country -- was ousted as president in a manner consistent with the Honduran constitution. The Obama administration -- which couldn't roll over fast enough when Ahmadinejad had to steal the already-rigged Iranian "election" and the regime brutally jailed, tortured and killed dissenters -- is playing hardball with Honduras (at least when it's not slapping Israel and the Dalai Lama around), ...
Release the Koh Memorandum on Honduras
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... This last bit may need to be revised, as there appears to be another “official analysis” of the relevant legal issues, albeit one that has yet to be released. According to an op-ed by Senator Jim DeMint, who just returned from a trip to Honduras, there is a State Department report authored by State Department legal advisor Harold Koh. ...
JIM DEMINT 2012
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
I think Jim Demint has been out front on all the issues, leading the counter-attack against Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the radical left. I think he'd make a great president. Here's his op-ed in today's WSJ. EXCERPT: America's Founding Fathers—like the framers of Honduras's own constitution—believed strong institutions were necessary to defend freedom and democracy from the ambitions of would-be tyrants and dictators. Faced by Mr. Zelaya's attempted ...
DeMint: What I heard in Honduras
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... DeMint from traveling to Honduras in a bald extortion attempt to get DeMint to lift holds on two Obama administration diplomatic nominees, which DeMint ignored. DeMint writes in today’s Wall Street Journal that Zelaya needed to go, and that the US has backed a megalomaniac intent on seizing complete power: While in Honduras, I spoke to dozens of Hondurans, from nonpartisan members of civil society to former Zelaya political allies, from Supreme Court judges to presidential candidates and even personal friends of Mr. Zelaya. Each relayed stories of a man changed and ...
Operation: Unjust Cause
Six Meat Buffet —
... It appears Senator DeMint is carrying more sack than a Kroger grocery bagger on the eve of a Nashville snowstorm. Live from Tegucigalpa, he gives us the update on “coup” and the “chaos” manufactured by international leftist authoritarians after their country’s President was prevented from installing himself as dictator for life: ...
"What I Heard In Honduras"
JammieWearingFool —
... that the Honduran Supreme Court acted in accordance with it's constitution, and continues to act in accordance with it's constitution, so why is it that the Obama administration continues to characterize the actions taken as a coup? In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya's ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the November elections: U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens. That is from a column written by Sen Jim Demint in the WSJ, who over the objections of the administration, went down to ...
Sen. DeMint On Honduras Trip: Our ambassador is the only person I met there who thinks there was a 'coup.'
Gateway Pundit —
... Honduras, is backed by Latin American Marxists Raul Castro, Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez and American President Barack Obama. Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya poses with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro (L) and Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez (R) during the Central American integration meeting in Managua June 29, 2009. (REUTERS/Miraflores Palace) Senator Jim DeMint traveled to Honduras last week on a fact-finding mission. The Wall Street Journal reported on his trip: In the last three months, much ...
Why won’t the Obama administration support the upcoming Honduran elections?
Fausta's Blog —
Jim DeMint, who, as you may recall traveled to Honduras last week in spite of John Kerry’s political blackmail, writes in today’s Wall Street Journal about his trip to Honduras:
What I Heard in Honduras
Our ambassador is the only person I met there who thinks there was a ‘coup.’ Let’s release the State Department legal analysis.
While in Honduras, I spoke to dozens of Hondurans, from nonpartisan members of civil society to former Zelaya political allies, from Supreme ...
Senator DeMint: The Only Person In Honduras Who Wants The Return Of Zelaya Is Obama’s Ambassador
Say Anything —
... Senator DeMint paints a poignant picture of just how misguided the Obama administration has been in their backing of ousted would-be tyrant Manuel Zelaya: ...
WSJ: 'Let's release the State Department legal analysis on Honduras'
Hyscience —
... Jim Demint visited Tegucigalpa last week and our ambassador is the only person he met there who thinks there was a 'coup': ...
Koh Was Likely Behind Obama's Illegal Demands of Honduras
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... This is exactly what one would expect of Koh upon examining his record and views. Interestingly, the Obama administration refuses to release Koh's critical opinion. According to Ambassador Llorens, Koh's opinion decided the administration's course of action regarding Honduras, reports Jim DeMint after his fact-finding mission to Honduras in today's WSJ. ...
The Honduras article Sen. Kerry (D, MA) didn’t want you to see.
RedState —
... from going - and he’s unkind about what has been pretty obviously an attempt by the American government to admit that we made a mistake and picked the wrong side of the Honduras issue: ...
Transnationalist Harold Koh Behind Obama Administration’s Honduras Policy
Nice Deb —
... So it comes down to this. The adviser to the State Department, Harold Koh, (whose appointment conservatives so feared and opposed), appears to be the man behind the Obama administration’s bizarre policy against Honduras.
Senator Jim DeMint writes about his recent trip to Honduras in an oped in The WSJ, today:
In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya’s ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the November elections: ...
DeMint singles out U.S. ambassador in op-ed on Honduras
News —
... In an op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal, DeMint called out U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens and the Obama administration for its support for Zelaya in the wake of a coup earlier this year. ...
Turning our back on Honduras makes no sense...
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE —
... Senator Jim Demint writes in the Wall Street Journal about his factfinding visit to Honduras, where Zelaya — a thuggish would-be dictator who was trying to destroy the rule of law in his country — was ousted as president in a manner consistent with the Honduran constitution. The Obama administration — which couldn't roll over fast enough when Ahmadinejad had to steal the already-rigged Iranian "election" and the regime brutally jailed, tortured and killed dissenters — is playing hardball with Honduras (at least when it's not slapping Israel ...
Actions Still Drowning Out Words, Everywhere But Here
The Sundries Shack —
... . The truth is our President is just going to keep talking big stuff about freedom and the rule of law while placating dictators and crushing democratic nations in the name of stability. Tags: ...
It Helps to Read What one is Citing
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
... Senator Jim Demint writes in the Wall Street Journal about his factfinding visit to Honduras, where Zelaya — a thuggish would-be dictator who was trying to destroy the rule of law in his country — was ousted as president in a manner consistent with the Honduran constitution. The Obama administration — which couldn’t roll over fast enough when Ahmadinejad had to steal the already-rigged Iranian "election" and the regime brutally jailed, tortured and killed dissenters — is playing hardball with Honduras (at least when it’s not ...
Honduras
PoliPundit.com —
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) explains:
As all strong democracies do after cleansing themselves of usurpers, Honduras has moved on.
The presidential election is on schedule for Nov. 29. Under Honduras’s one-term-limit, Mr. Zelaya could not have sought re-election anyway. Current President Roberto Micheletti—who was installed after Mr. Zelaya’s removal, per the Honduran Constitution—is not on the ballot either. The presidential candidates were nominated in primary elections almost a year ago, and ...
Claritin Clear
Cold Fury —
SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE CENSORSHIP, BLOCK POLICE, STAGNANT ECONOMIES… Sen. Jim DeMint : In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya’s ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the November elections: U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens. When I asked Ambassador Llorens why the U.S. government insists on labeling what appears to the entire country to be the constitutional removal of Mr. Zelaya a “coup,” he urged me to read the legal opinion drafted by the State Department’s top lawyer, Harold Koh. As it ...
Honduras Embraces America
democracyarsenal.org —
After his "fact-finding" trip to Honduras, Sen. Jim DeMint wrote:
Hondurans are therefore left
scratching their heads. They know why Hugo Chávez, Daniel Ortega and
the Castro brothers oppose free elections and the removal of would-be
dictators, but they can't understand why the Obama administration does.
They're not the only ones.
Reading this, it seems clear that Sen. DeMint purported to see a lot of aggravation and decreased goodwill between the people of Honduras ...
Left, Right & Wrong in Honduras
RealClearPolitics - Homepage —
... Rep. Peter Roskam, Chicago Tribune October 11, 2009 What I Heard in Honduras Sen. Jim DeMint, Wall Street Journal Tegucigalpa In the last three months, much has been made of a supposed military "coup" that whisked former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from power and the supposed chaos it has created. After visiting Tegucigalpa last... ...
Obama and Honduras: principled stance leads to pragmatic moves
democracyarsenal.org —
... supported Micheletti
since the beginning of the crisis.. Under the sway of lobbyists hired
by Micheletti, conservatives with no experience in the region, like
Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, have time and again ...
Cautious Optimism In Honduars, No Thanks To Clinton and Obama
GayPatriot —
... and democratic fashion, it’ll be no thanks to President Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Since the beginning of this crisis, the Obama Administration and State Department seems to have been working stridently against fair and lawful resolution to this saga. All along the way, they have offered zero in defense of their non-sensical position of denying Hondurans their right to a solid Constitutional government while supporting this Chavez mini-me. When asked to defend their decisions, they have bobbed and weaved. While the Congressional Research ...
