In case you missed it last night, Senator Jim DeMint appeared on the Greta Van Susteren Show to talk about his recent trip to Honduras:
Transcript, here.
His trip followed some dramatic political wrangling which involved Senator Kerry trying to block it:
“No U.S. Senator has yet been to Honduras to assess facts of crisis. [Kerry] & Obama admin using bullying tactics to hide truth,” DeMint, who also sits on the Foreign Relations panel, said on Twitter after he heard the trip would not occur.
“@JohnKerry (Foreign Rel. chair) trying to hide truth to protect Zelaya, blocking our fact-finding trip to Honduras at last minute,” DeMint also tweeted late Thursday afternoon.
DeMint’s office followed with a statement. “These bullying tactics by the Obama administration and Senator Kerry must stop, and we must be allowed to get to the truth in Honduras. Not a single U.S. Senator has traveled to Honduras to learn the facts on the ground.
“While this administration has failed to act decisively in Afghanistan, it is has no problem cracking down on a democratic ally and one of the poorest nations in Latin America,” DeMint added. “Now, President Obama and Democrats’ blind support for this would-be dictator and friend of Hugo Chavez will prevent members of Congress from learning the truth first hand.”
Kerry spokesman Frederick Jones responded Thursday evening that “Senator DeMint’s statement wins an A for ‘audacity.’”
Rachel Maddow, over at PMSNBC, laughably, accused DeMint of treason for going to Honduras on a fact finding mission.
You can see pictures from Senator DeMint’s trip on his website.
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October, 7, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I don’t seem to recall Rachel Maddow accusing Jim McDermott of treason when he went to Iraq to publicly support Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the Iraq War.
Maybe I’m just forgetting that part, you think?
October, 7, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Probably because she was still in middle school at the time.
October, 7, 2009 at 3:43 pm
When exactly did someone as obtuse and lightweight as Rachel Maddow become taken seriously as a political/military analyst? She’s a regular on Meet The Press now. No, really. Rachel Maddow.
October, 8, 2009 at 10:32 am
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