Kerry’s Banana Politics

Kerry's unprecedented bid to keep South Carolina's Republican senator out of Honduras shows how much spite there is in the party line of Democrats. The senior senator from Massachusetts leads the Foreign Relations Committee and seems to agree with the current nonsense that Honduras' legal ouster of its rogue president was a "coup" that deserves "punishment."

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DeMint disagrees, as do many others. He sought to visit Honduras with three other senators to meet all sides in the dispute and bring their message back. He'd slated meetings with, among others, President Roberto Micheletti, the Honduran Supreme Court justices, civil society groups and U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens. He needs to go, since the State Department yanked the visas of Honduran officials who wanted to come here. Now, thanks to the intervention of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, DeMint's group will go anyway.

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