Posted on 07/21/2009 10:03:33 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
A Republican senator unhappy with U.S. policy on Honduras delayed on Tuesday a committee vote to confirm the nominee to head the State Department's bureau of western hemisphere affairs.
Conservative Senator Jim DeMint, who has expressed concern over Washington's call for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to be reinstated, invoked his right to ask the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to postpone voting to confirm Arturo Valenzuela, currently a professor at Georgetown University, to be assistant secretary of state.
DeMint also asked for a delay in confirming Thomas Shannon as U.S. ambassador to Brazil. Shannon currently holds the assistant secretary's post.
Both votes had been set for Tuesday afternoon but are now likely to be held next week.
DeMint is one of 17 Republican senators who wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this month asking the administration to reassess its stance on Honduras.
The group said it worried that Washington's pro-Zelaya stance would legitimize "abuses of power" and "violations of the Honduran constitution" by Zelaya before he was ousted by the army on June 28.
Efforts to broker an end to the Honduran power struggle collapsed on Sunday, after interim leader Roberto Micheletti rejected a proposal to reinstate the overthrown president.
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Poor DeMint, alone in the GOP fighting for truth, justice, and the American way.
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He has started the ball rolling. You will see other Republicans joining in.
God bless the guy. DeMint has been working his behind off for us and for democracy and freedom.
DeMint is starting to look like presidential material. He appears to want to take the lead in America’s War on Marxism.
I am calling DeMint’s office tomorrow morning to thank him. We should all do the same.
I have always liked him.
Why does Obama work against the Supreme Court of Honduras and the Rule of Law in Honduras?? And why are we letting him get away with it?
We should have a protest in DC to support the Honduras Constitution... for exactly the same reason we support our own. This is a battle of Constitutional Law VS Marxist Dictatorship!
I sure do now.
Jim DeMint rocks.
It does have the power of impeachment but I extremely doubt that they will impeach the current president. The United States Department of State’s human rights report for 1992, claimed that the civilian judiciary in Honduras “is weak, underfunded, politicized, inefficient, and corrupt.” Meaning, the president can’t be touched.
He is the man!
Zelaya can’t be touched? I guess it would depend on how much support he really has. The civilian judicary does the impeachment there instead of congress? At this point, even just starting the proceedings would be sufficient. I’m saying it would be important for rhetorical value. They could argue that he is “being” impeached, and that kills the Obama argument at least for the moment.
Seems there are no people with actual real world experience in 0's administration, they're all professors or some such (or they're career politicians).
Demint has got a pair. And he is right - the leftist WH policy is atrocious and fascist.
Fantastic leadership on this issue I admire him for it
whoever thinks these 2 are liberal are wrong. Chevez and Obama are communists and that is their plan for usa.
He was impeached - in an early-morning session at the same time he was being arrested and kicked out of town. For the record, their Constitution does not require impeachment for what he did.
Zelaya does not have any support at home. He is persona non gratia in Honduras. He will not be impeached because the military will not let him in. He will get a big suprise when if he lands.
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