Thread: DeMint, being, well, DeMint

Seriously, does this guy ever not act like a partisan jackass? Ever? Questioning the return of the democratically elected president by obstructing a nomination that is slightly irrelevant to the situation.

Am I the only one that finds Kyl, Boehner, and DeMint to be whiny little bitched incapable of actually doing the job they were elected to do an instead act like professional fluffers for right wing pundits?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...072101860.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican senator unhappy with U.S. policy on Honduras delayed on Tuesday a committee vote to confirm the nominee to head the State Department's bureau of western hemisphere affairs.
Conservative Senator Jim DeMint, who has expressed concern over Washington's call for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to be reinstated, invoked his right to ask the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to postpone voting to confirm Arturo Valenzuela, currently a professor at Georgetown University, to be assistant secretary of state.
DeMint also asked for a delay in confirming Thomas Shannon as U.S. ambassador to Brazil. Shannon currently holds the assistant secretary's post.
Both votes had been set for Tuesday afternoon but are now likely to be held next week.




DeMint is one of 17 Republican senators who wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this month asking the administration to reassess its stance on Honduras.
The group said it worried that Washington's pro-Zelaya stance would legitimize "abuses of power" and "violations of the Honduran constitution" by Zelaya before he was ousted by the army on June 28.
Efforts to broker an end to the Honduran power struggle collapsed on Sunday, after interim leader Roberto Micheletti rejected a proposal to reinstate the overthrown president.
Clinton spoke to Micheletti by phone after the talks fell apart and warned him he could face cuts in economic aid unless he strikes a deal with his rival.
DeMint and other Republicans have said they believe Hondurans were acting lawfully when they ousted Zelaya after he had sought to hold a referendum on overhauling the constitution to allow his re-election.
A spokesman for DeMint said on Tuesday the senator was also displeased at Valenzuela's refusal to discuss Honduras at length during his nomination hearing.
At the hearing, DeMint asked why Washington would want to be on the same side as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro, in the Honduran crisis.
"President Obama rushed to side with Chavez and Castro before getting the facts. Now it's clear that the people of Honduras were defending the rule of law," DeMint said on Tuesday, through his spokesman.

Proud to have DeMint as our representative.

Originally Posted by Heel31ok

Proud to have DeMint as our representative.

I don't doubt that for a second. Any guy that would stop doing his job because of the political situation in Honduras is one genuine dipshit. Nice to see you folks love dipshits.

go Jim. go Jim!

Originally Posted by Heel31ok

go Jim. go Jim!

Indeed.

Jim, please worry about making sure that you take a contrary position than Chavez, because South Carolina's political interests have a lot to do with Venezuela.

What a brilliant man DeMint is. Playing a modern form of McCarthyism and his constituents are stupid enough to fall for it.

Jim has a long and illustrious career ahead of him.Way to Jim the whole State applauds your efforts.

He certainly shut down Matt Lauer today, made him look like a fool.

Originally Posted by Think for myself

Seriously, does this guy ever not act like a partisan jackass?

Sen. DeMint is a politician and I expect him to be partisian. I expecyt everyone to be partisian. You are. So am I.

And the Obama administration is horribly wrong on Honduras.

Originally Posted by ArizonaIrish

And the Obama administration is horribly wrong on Honduras.

Really? Your reasoning for thinking this?

Originally Posted by Stinger

He certainly shut down Matt Lauer today, made him look like a fool.

That must paint an even clearer picture of how bad Palin was then.