Senate GOP Joins DeMint to Challenge Administration on Honduras
07/08/2009 - 05:19:20 PM
This morning Sen. DeMint questioned the position of the Obama Administration on Honduras during a Foreign Relations Committee hearing with President Obama's nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Arturo Valenzuela. Over the past two days several GOP senators have joined DeMint to speak out in support of the Honduran people's plight to preserve their democracy. Along with DeMint, Senators Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have voiced support for the rule of law on the floor of the Senate. Today, DeMint, Martinez and Coburn were joined by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) at a press conference where they urged the administration to reconsider its current stance, which was made in haste before all the facts were in.
Now 16 senators have joined DeMint in sending a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking her and President Obama to reassess their stance on the situation in Honduras and urging them to meet with democratically elected members of Honduran Congress currently visiting the United States. (To view the letter, click here.)
This was not a coup, it was the constitutional removal of a would-be Chavez-style dictator and Obama has once again sided against American interests and against people standing for freedom and democracy.
