How Jim Demint managed to go to Honduras

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Jim DeMint is going down to "meddle" in the situation and to encourage the coup leaders to stand strong against the White House and the US Department of State.

Senator DeMint has behaved from the beginning as if he has a dog in the race down in Honduras, and it is not the one that the US government feels comfortable supporting at the moment. None of Honduras' neighbors do either.

It is extremely rare that a Chairman of a Committee on which a US Senator works would move to block a resource allocation that would allow that Member to fly somewhere within the jurisdiction of that Committee -- but Senator John Kerry blocked DeMint's plans to go and commiserate with wealthy businessmen who had recently had visas revoked by the US government and to encourage them to stand strong against the US government.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell intervened and arranged a Department of Defense secured plane to take the Senator and several House Members to Honduras -- thus reversing John Kerry's action.

I am currently looking into how exactly Senator McConnell secured agreement from the Department of Defense, part of the Obama-controlled Executive Branch, to provide the plane.

Senator John Kerry's rationale for rejecting Jim DeMint's request for resources for the Honduras trip was that DeMint has blocked consideration of two key Obama Latin America foreign policy appointments.
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DeMint seems to be focused on undermining US government policy by commiserating with foreign nationals abroad.

I respect Senator DeMint's right to speak his mind and conscience from the floor of the Senate, on his blog, on twitter, wherever he likes -- but there is something extremely wrong about a US Senator conspiring with government officials of another nation as well as wealthy supporters of a coup against the applied policies of the United States.

Jim DeMint made the decision to go to Honduras just as de facto Honduran president Roberto Micheletti began to issue signals that he was willing to work out an arrangement on the ousted President and to negotiate something with the United States and other regional stakeholders.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/

I want somebody to jack up DeMint. I also was to know why and who authorized a DOD plane to take them to Honduras.