DeMint likens Franken’s election to Honduran coup

By Chris Steller
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 at 6:21 pm

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):

Comments

12 Comments

MN guy
Comment posted July 7, 2009 @ 6:49 pm

Give this man some oxygen. His brain seems to be atrophied.


RC
Comment posted July 7, 2009 @ 7:49 pm

I would love to refute what this guy is saying, but I can’t figure out what he is saying.


living in honduras
Comment posted July 7, 2009 @ 8:05 pm

If you can’t figure out what DeMint is saying it’s not worth my time explaining it to you.

2+2=4

Can you figure that out?


Dave
Comment posted July 7, 2009 @ 8:50 pm

Just one more piece of the “Republicans are Douche-Bags” puzzle…


Amuseinc
Comment posted July 8, 2009 @ 2:54 am

Another person that knows nothing about Minnesota or how we run our state yet wants us to become a cold South Carolina. I wish the Minnesota Republicans could get a taste of what life is like in Republican run states with their bad education system, no public services, toll roads and a state government that looks out only for big business.


Mitchell Blatt
Comment posted July 8, 2009 @ 10:12 am

I suppose if carrying out a Supreme Court decision is a coup, then Honduras was a coup…


Mitchell Blatt
Comment posted July 8, 2009 @ 10:15 am

By the way Amuesinc, if you like Republican states, you can move to Texas where they have more employment growth than other states. Otherwise, you might like California or New York with their billion dollar deficits. Democrats do have a pretty good track record with deficits even on the $1.8 trillion national level.


John Doe
Comment posted July 8, 2009 @ 11:11 am

When talking of deficits why compare parties? And I would like to see what kind of jobs are available in Texas. If you call what happened in Honduras an example of democracy then either I or you have a warped sense of what democracy is.


Stormer
Comment posted July 8, 2009 @ 11:28 am

Clearly, Sen. DeMint has no idea what the word ‘coup’ means. He also has no idea whatsoever as to the election laws of Minnesota. I would say that Sen. DeMint should probably go back to High School and finish up the World History and Civics classes he obviously skipped out on.


Tom
Comment posted July 8, 2009 @ 12:56 pm

This comment comes from the guy who supported Mark Sanford for Governor because he was the “moral” candidate….


David
Comment posted July 8, 2009 @ 3:36 pm

Thanks, Senator – I forgot all about the troops who seized Norm Coleman by force and kicked him out of the country to install Al Franken.


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[...] Sen. Jim DeMint: On what basis does the [Obama] Administration demand [ousted Honduran President] 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. [...]


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