Smells to me like an inept and ham-handed try at castrating Obama by crossing the wires on his foreign policy.

Why in the hell is his actions not treason? he should be stopped and McConnell is complicit. Don't backdown and go after this bastard....

It can be argued that it is treason... but... I say let him go. And while he is there pull his passport so he can't re-enter the USA. He can fight it out in the courts but by then the health care debate will be over and he would not have been here to cause trouble or vote to support cloture. Maybe McConnell would like to go with him?

owe allegiance, no own.

Appalachian trail maybe?

This guy is a contemptible embarrassment in the States --he has no business outside the country! Maybe, he is working with the lamentable Lanny Davis--who is council for the Chamber group that backed the COUP..That makes sense--neither have collective brains enough to come in from the rain!! The Honduran rain forest might be a great place to stash them both for the duration!

South Carolina is proof of the stupidity of the GOP and how its poor leadership can run a state into the ground. DeMint would better serve his voters if he stayed home and tended to their problems. Frankly, I am not interested in my tax dollars paying for this fool's plane ticket.

Living in near by Costa Rica, I can assure you the situation is far more complex in Honduras than either the American left or right realize.

Manuel Zelaya is no champion of democracy, neither is Michelleti the de facto president.

They are members of the same party, and despite Zelaya's populist rhetoric, he comes from the very same oligarchy he rails against.

He did break Honduran law when, on his own behalf, he attempted to get the constitution amended so he could seek a second term.

Likewise, the Honduran military broke the law when they rousted him out of bed at gun point, put him on a plane in his pajamas, and sent him packing to Costa Rica.

Funny thing, Zelaya didn't have time to get dressed, but he did have time to grab his all important signature hat.

I attended a conference in San Jose last week where several journalists who'd just returned from Tegucigalpa spoke about what they saw on the ground.

There are some very nasty human rights violations occurring to be sure.

But one journalist had an interesting take on all this.

Zelaya and Micheletti are members of the same party.

Ousting Zelaya angered advocates of democracy both inside and outside Honduras. Inside Honduras, those democracy advocates and members of several other parties, have refused to participate in the upcoming elections.

What does that mean? Well, the elections will go forward and, with so many democracy advocates and members of other parties sitting them out, Zelaya and Micheletti's party is all but assured to "win".

More than a few people I've spoken to who know Honduras much better that I do are starting to see a big old political scam/sham playing out here.

Zelaya's done some good things. He's raised the minimum wage, he's increased the number of free health clinics in the country, but has some Hugo envy going on to be sure.

But this is not a clear cut right/left issue. Something is in play here. What it is, only time will reveal.

But with the multilateral arms race that is going on thru out Latin America, with the US, Russia, China, France, and even Iran, selling vast amounts of sophisticated conventional weapons and equipment to anyone and everyone in the region, the potential for Honduras to become a flashpoint that could ignite a broader, regional war is on the minds of every one, be they of the right or of the left, who's paying attention and understands such a war is no one's best interests.

DeMint's just a side show and not worth getting fired up about.

The real issue is not just what is happening in Honduras, but the arms race that is occurring through out Ameica's Southern Hemisphere.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/
The best reporting so far on the sujuect

NatsGuv, I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist either but given how psychotic Obama's election has made the far right wing of the GOP, a faction DeMint is obviously a part of, nothing would really surprise me.

Although I see glimmers of hope among some of the saner elements of the GOP who are realizing this hateful rhetoric and demonizing of Obama on the part of what, when all is said and done, is a relatively small, but vocal, extremist faction in the GOP who get much more media coverage than their actual numbers warrant is hurting the GOP nationally and it's just not good for the country.

Lindsay Graham called Glenn Beck a self serving "cynic" and the Birther Bozoz "crazy" the other day.

I cited David Brooks's Times column today that really put the PERCEIVED influence of Rush Glenn, Sean, et al into perspective.

And Steve Schmidt' comments about Palin reassure me that the GOP knows they, with all the time they spent currying favor with the relatively small number of far right, Bible thumping whack jobs, especially at the primary level, is killing them at the national election level.

I can count at least a dozen people I know socially in Massachusetts who view themselves as independent centrists who would have definitely voted for Mccain over Obama if Mccain had picked, say, Olympia Snowe of Maine, or even Kay Bailey Hutcheson of Texas, but they, truly, recoiled in horror and disbelief when McCain picked the Whack Job from Wasulla.

I don't know if Mccain could have beaten Obama even with a different running mate, but I know the race would have been significantly closer.

Sarah Palin, more than almost anything else, cost Mccain the election. That's why I say, bring on "The Whack Job From Wasulla in 2012"

You mean like Kerry's negotiations with the Sandanistas in 1985?

Within weeks of taking office in 1985, he was off to Nicaragua, accompanied by reporters on a 36-hour, self-appointed fact-finding mission with another freshman, Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. Congressional Democrats had accused the White House of exaggerating the communist threat posed by the Sandinista regime. So the two senators were publicly castigated when -- just days after meeting with Daniel Ortega and other leaders of the regime -- the Sandinistas climbed aboard a plane to Moscow to cement their Soviet ties.

Secretary of State George Shultz declared that Kerry and Harkin had been "used" by the Nicaraguans, and he ridiculed them for their naivete in "dealing with the communists." Kerry was called "silly" in the Boston press.