More like ‘DeMint *schools* Kerry over Honduras.’

RedState ^ | 10-3-09 | Moe Lane

[smoothsailing]

More like ‘DeMint *schools* Kerry over Honduras.’

Posted by Moe Lane

Saturday, October 3rd at 4:47PM EDT

(Via Jen Rubin) Let’s review (I almost did this using an extended metaphor of a fencing match, but I didn’t want actual fencers wincing):

• Sen. John Kerry is the Democratic point man in Foreign Relations for this administration’s messed-up Honduras policy.  He is, in fact, the Foreign Relations chair… which tells you how seriously the Democrats take this committee (i.e., they don’t).
• Sen. Jim DeMint is the Republican determined to wreck Sen. Kerry’s day - both on this administration’s messed-up Honduras policy, and on general principles.
• This administration has a messed-up Honduras policy.
• DeMint therefore slaps a couple of Senatorial holds on some State Department appointments until the administration stops messing up on Honduras policy.
• Kerry responds by denying DeMint the plane that he’d need to go down to Honduras and see for himself how messed up our Honduras policy is.  This is one of those steps that prudent Senate chairs usually don’t take, because it makes it easier for it to happen again, and nobody controls Congress forever.
• DeMint talks to Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell.
• McConnell talks to the Pentagon.
• The Pentagon is, of course, filled with people who didn’t come back from Vietnam and promptly announce that we were worse than the Mongol Horde.  Which is to say, people not like Kerry.
• The Pentagon gives Kerry the Hawaiian good-luck symbol, and DeMint a plane.  DeMint may now go to Honduras and see how messed up our policy is down there.
• DeMint then links this mess to the State Department.
• The State Department promptly disavows themselves of this mess.
• So: Kerry establishes a precedent, doesn’t accomplish his goal of keeping our messed-up Honduras policy off the radar, and doesn’t even get the State Department backing him up.  For a Democrat, that takes skill.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what one motivated Senator can do to mess up another Senator’s day.

Moe Lane

PS: Bear this in mind when the reconciliation question comes up regarding the Democrats’ messed-up health care rationing bill.

[Republic]

I would like to Call DeMint's office and thank him for his astute and truly hilarious handling of Kerry's smallmindedness.

You go DeMint! And thanks to the guys at the Pentagon who are giving DeMint the 'ride'!

[dr_who]

People like John F’ing Kerry can’t be schooled in anything. But they can become senators.

[Paladin2]

Fencers?

Are those the people who are part the VRW conspiracy who want the Southern US border with Mexico to be fenced and patrolled to gain actual government control of something?

[ohiogrammy]

Love DeMint, hate Kerry! I feel so badly for the people of Hondurus, hope they can reclaim their freedom and continue as a democracy so we all have somewhere to go after BO has ruined our country...

[Bahbah]

Feel free to call him.

Washington, D.C.
340 Russell
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6121
Fax: 202-228-5143
Office Hours:
9am - 6pm (M-F)

[Republic]

Thanks Bahbah, I will do it on Monday!

[jazusamo]

LOL! Great piece.

One thing we can say about Lurch, he’s consistent!

He was incompetent in Vietnam and he still is as a senator.

[ETL]

"Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

[ETL]

"...if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned."-J.F. Kerry

"Under questioning from the Committee, Kerry referred to the democratically elected government of South Vietnam -- our allies -- as a "dictatorial regime, the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime," while respectfully calling the North Vietnamese communist regime we were fighting by its oxymoronic official name, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and the murderous Viet Cong's political arm by their preferred "Provisional Revolutionary Government.":
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez042804.asp
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June, 1970 -- Kerry joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a national veterans group that is part of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. The PCPJ is a broad coalition of local and national organizations, including the Communist Party, USA, "committed to conducting demonstrations aimed at ending the war in Indochina, and poverty, racism and injustice at home." The VVAW, CCI and PCPJ all have headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City. VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard, a former Black Panther, is also on the coordinating committee of the PCPJ. Hubbard soon appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Executive Committee, bypassing the normal election process.
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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Fact: The Black Panthers were revolutionary communists...

From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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John Kerry and the VVAW--Hanoi's American Puppets?
"Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/staticpages/index.php?page=puppets
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) Complete FBI files:
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=VVAWFBI

[Bahbah]

His people are always very nice.

Of course that might have something to do with the fact that I just love the guy. LOL.

[BunnySlippers]

You can talk to him here:

https://twitter.com/jimdemint

[StarFan]

I thought he was scheduled to leave Thurs/Friday in the early morning. Any word as to whether he was able to go?

[BonRad]

Shoot- The Boston Globe today had a nice big page two presentation with large photo of JFK at the seated center of his lonely committee, photo taken about ten feet from and three feet below. Do see the article. Its actually not as terribly biased as one’d think!

Nice nugget though in pic descrip of DeMint & Micheletti. You can bet the house the Glob would word it otherwise if the Repubs were in charge blocking same with a Dem Sen factfinding to say well, you get the idea:

“Senator John F. Kerry made an unusual power play. Above, President Roberto Micheletti (left), who ousted his predecessor in June, greeted Senator Jim DeMint in Tegucigalpa, Honduras”.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/10/03/kerry_gop_senator_tussle_over_honduran_trip/

[dennisw]

Would have been nice to see old horse face blowing a gasket over this

[Bahbah]

DeMint Statement on Fact-Finding Trip to Honduras

October 2, 2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, made the following statement after he returned from a fact-finding mission to Honduras. Senator DeMint led a delegation of U.S. Congressmen including Aaron Schock (R-Illinois), Peter Roskam (R-Illinois), and Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado). They met with Honduran President Roberto Micheletti, members of the Honduran Supreme Court, leading candidates for the upcoming November 29 elections, election officials, and Honduran business and civic leaders.

“We had a very productive trip, and we will have more to say next week after we have briefed our colleagues in the House and Senate. But for now, I can say that we saw a government working hard to follow the rule of law, uphold its constitution, and to protect democracy for the people of Honduras. We are very encouraged by what we saw and we hope to be able to work with our administration to support the upcoming elections,” said Senator DeMint.

[IrishCatholic]

bookmark.

[Doctor Don]

Cadaver Man KO’d by a republican Senator.......Hooray!

[jws3sticks]

Here's "Horseface" facing away from the camera.

Everyone knows he is a decorated "war hero", NOT!

Horseface did like to experiment, it got him closer to Jane Fonda.

As a direct result of the foregoing, here is a picture of his brain matter.

[normanpubbie]

Yeah, Kerry is a jerk and worse. But let's talk about James DeMint, a Republican.

Consider this statement by DeMint summarizing his trip to visit with the interim government and those Hondurans friendly to the government:

But for now, I can say that we saw a government working hard to follow the rule of law, uphold its constitution, and to protect democracy for the people of Honduras.

Fact is, last weekend the interim government suspended several Constitutional articles. That's not upholding the Constitution and protecting democracy -- that's degrading it.

If DeMint wants to support the Micheletti regime, fine. But Mr. DeMint damages the conservative and Republican cause by making irresponsible statements like the one cited in this comment.