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Kerry's Attempt to Block DeMint's Honduras Trip Reveals Policy Feud
Washington Post ^
| October 2, 2009
| Mary Beth Sheridan
Posted on 10/02/2009 2:51:10 AM PDT by don-o
A simmering feud over U.S. policy toward Latin America burst into the open Thursday when Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) tried to prevent a fact-finding trip to Honduras by a Republican senator who is blocking two important diplomatic appointments.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) denounced Kerry's move on the Senate floor and sought the intervention of the minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The Republican leader appealed to the Defense Department to provide an aircraft for DeMint's trip and the Pentagon agreed to do so, according to the South Carolina senator's office.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: communists; congress; constitution; demint; honduras; jimdemint; kerry; manuelzelaya; marxists; porfiriolobo; zelaya
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Story clears up some confusion from yesterday.
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posted on
10/02/2009 2:51:10 AM PDT
by
don-o
To: HonCitizen; Girlene; livius; stephenjohnbanker; Son House; ABQHispConservative; Lexinom; okie01; ...
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posted on
10/02/2009 2:52:20 AM PDT
by
don-o
(My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is OM for Iraq.)
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: don-o
the Pentagon agreed to do soThis is excellent news. The pentagon could have balked at getting in the middle of the fight but they were, as expected, in the right to provide this.
Kerry? He's a jackass.
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posted on
10/02/2009 2:56:49 AM PDT
by
paulycy
(Screw the RACErs)
To: don-o
"Senator DeMint's statement wins an A for 'audacity.'"
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posted on
10/02/2009 2:57:28 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: Post5203
Someone post that photo of lurch kerry shaking hands with ortega please.Which is the smarter one again?
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:04:36 AM PDT
by
paulycy
(Screw the RACErs)
To: don-o
John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) tried to prevent a fact-finding tripJust like a liberal; try to hide the truth.
I think with drunkard Ted Kennedy gone, Lurch probably/apparently feels a new sense of relevence. He's not.
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:04:46 AM PDT
by
South40
(Islam has a long tradition of tolerance, ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
To: Post5203
Someone post that photo of Kerry getting backhanded b*tch-slapped.
Oh...don't have one?
Get One!
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:05:03 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: don-o
John Kerry served in Viet Nam donchaknow.
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:17:37 AM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(The only time I want a Republican reaching across the aisle is to smack a liberal.)
To: paulycy
Someone post that photo of Kerry throwing a football like a girl.
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:32:54 AM PDT
by
nikos1121
(Praying for -16 today.)
To: don-o
Isn't it time for a former Republican President to visit North Korea, Iran, and Honduras to offer up some alternative foreign policy like Carter's done for the last eight years?
Frankly, Bush should go down to Honduras and certify their coup as “Constitutionally justified under the protection of liberty.”
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:37:33 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(No one should die on a gov. waiting list., or go broke because the gov. has dictated their salary.)
To: nikos1121
Here are a couple of Kerry football photos, throwing and receiving:
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:43:10 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: don-o
I’m still confused. How could KERRY block anyone’s travel?
It’s been awhile since I left the country so maybe thinks have changed but I never needed a JFnK-OK stamp on my passport before.
To: don-o
Was this issued from Kerry’s office in Damascas
or Mount Whoredom?
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:47:43 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
To: SampleMan
Bush is too much of a McCainiac to do anything brave like that.
To: samtheman
From the article:
As head of the Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry can withhold committee funds for travel and deny permission for the use of military aircraft. But he had never before used that power to block another senator's travel, his aides said.
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:49:56 AM PDT
by
don-o
(My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is OM for Iraq.)
To: samtheman
Is that really necessary?
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:51:06 AM PDT
by
don-o
(My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal is OM for Iraq.)
To: samtheman
Bush is too much of a McCainiac to do anything brave like that.Bush was disappointing in many ways but I never doubted his personal courage.
You might run into some resistance to this view of yours around here....
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posted on
10/02/2009 3:53:17 AM PDT
by
paulycy
(Screw the RACErs)
To: don-o
attn: Demint
do you have a passport?
do you have enuf money to buy an airplane ticket?
if yes, just go.
you don’t need my permission.
To: don-o
One of the many ironies is that most of the time “fact-finding trips” done by congress-critters are to places like Paris or Rome or what have you. In this case Sen. DeMint is really trying to fulfill his job as a senator and senator jackass has the cojones to try to prevent that.
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