demintRepublican Sen. Jim DeMint laid out a funny kind of welcome mat for his new colleague from Minnesota today: He likened Al Franken’s win to the way Honduras President Manuel Zelaya was recently removed from office.

DeMint disagrees with the view that Honduras experienced a coup:

On what basis does the [Obama] Administration demand Zelaya’s reinstatement? His removal from office was no more a coup than was Gerald Ford’s ascendence to the Oval Office or our newest colleague Al Franken’s election to the Senate.

Here’s the video (via Think Progress):