Kerry's Attempt to Block DeMint's Honduras Trip Reveals Policy Feud

Washington Post ^ | October 2, 2009 | Mary Beth Sheridan

[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.

[don-o]

Story clears up some confusion from yesterday.

[don-o]

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[paulycy]

the Pentagon agreed to do so

This 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.

[maggief]

"Senator DeMint's statement wins an A for 'audacity.'"

[paulycy]

Someone post that photo of lurch kerry shaking hands with ortega please.

Which is the smarter one again?

[South40]

John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) tried to prevent a fact-finding trip

Just 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.

[Tainan]

Someone post that photo of Kerry getting backhanded b*tch-slapped.
Oh...don't have one?
Get One!

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

John Kerry served in Viet Nam donchaknow.

[nikos1121]

Someone post that photo of Kerry throwing a football like a girl.

[SampleMan]

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.”

[aruanan]

Here are a couple of Kerry football photos, throwing and receiving:

[samtheman]

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.

[Diogenesis]

Was this issued from Kerry’s office in Damascas
or Mount Whoredom?

[samtheman]

Bush is too much of a McCainiac to do anything brave like that.

[don-o]

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.

[don-o]

Is that really necessary?

[paulycy]

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....

[element92]

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.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

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.