The differences are minimal, but I'm glad there is an "R" by my name on the voter rolls -- and I'm embarrassed by the mealy-mouthed senior senator from Massachusetts.
"Kerry, GOP senator tussle over Honduran trip; Confirmation blocks lead to power play" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | October 3, 2009
WASHINGTON - The spat, which was first reported in the blog Washington Note, is unusual on a committee known for collegial relations between the two parties....
While some Republicans saw the move as a disturbing use of power by John F. Kerry, who became chairman of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee committee earlier this year, several Democratic aides described the move as an attempt to rein in one of the Senate’s most obstructive members.
Hey, he's from Massachusetts!
Jim DeMint, a first-term Republican senator from South Carolina, has irked many in Congress over the years, including members of his own party, for blocking legislation, including a massive 2006 omnibus spending bill that he felt had too many earmarks.
Then he can't be all bad!
In recent months, DeMint, whom some have likened to the late conservative icon Jesse Helms, has been a particular thorn in the side of Democrats. In June, he published a book called “Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide into Socialism,’’ which attacked President Obama’s federal spending.
So here come the demonizing attacks and name-calling -- which means he must be having some effect.
In July, he told a conference call of fellow conservatives: “If we’re able to stop Obama on [health care], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.’’ The same month, he compared the United States under Obama to Nazi Germany, telling an audience at the National Press Club: “We’re about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like [Hugo] Chávez is running down in Venezuela.’’
In July, DeMint was among the handful of senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who voted against Arturo Valenzuela, Obama’s nominee for assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, and Tom Shannon, the assistant secretary and nominee to be ambassador to Brazil. DeMint’s opposition stems from the fact that the two officials support the Obama administration’s view that the toppling of the president of Honduras this summer was a military coup.
Except that is a MSM LIE: U.S. Asserts Hemispheric Hegemony in Honduras
DeMint says the Honduran Constitution has been followed and that the United States should not support the deposed leader, Manuel Zelaya, who is a leftist and an ally of Venezuelan President Chávez, a fierce critic of the United States.
Well, the good qualities of an American politician only go so far. See why we love Ron Paul so much?
Hours after taking off in a US military plane, DeMint and three Republican members of the House of Representatives - Aaron Schock and Peter Roskam of Illinois and Doug Lamborn of Colorado - smiled for photographs in the stately presidential palace with Roberto Micheletti, de facto president who ousted Zelaya on June 28....
Now I'm embarrassed by the Repuglicans.
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Related: Why I am Not a Real Republican
