GOP senators press administration not to back Zelaya

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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-senators-press-administration-to-not-back-zelaya-2009-07-08.html

Seventeen Senate Republicans on Wednesday sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urging the Obama administration to reverse its rhetoric and support the removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

The GOP senators disagree with the administration’s use of the term “coup” for the events in Honduras, saying that Zelaya was removed properly. The senators also urge Clinton to meet with a delegation of Honduran officials currently in Washington with whom they met earlier Wednesday.

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Four of the letter’s signers held a press conference Wednesday to press their case, with Sen. Mel Martinez (Fla.) leading the comments to charge that Zelaya was “moving in a direction that was contrary to the country’s own constitution and rules and laws.”

Martinez said the Honduran officials with whom he met Wednesday want the U.S. to “stand with the democratic institutions of Honduras.”

The letter to Clinton was signed by Republicans Jim DeMint (S.C.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Cornyn (Texas), David Vitter (La.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), John Ensign (Nev.), Jim Bunning (Ky.), Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Roger Wicker (Miss.), James Inhofe (Okla.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.), Mike Johanns (Neb.), Jim Risch (Idaho), Pat Roberts (Kan.), Kit Bond (Mo.) and John Thune (S.D.).

[Eric J in MN]

1. If that isn't a coup, what is? NT

NT

[rusty charly]

2. The GOP isn't running things anymore...

are they?

[Old and In the Way]

3. Dickheads.

Every last one of them.

[Still Sensible]

4. If Coburn, Inhofe, Bunning & Kyl take that position, it must

be utter nonsense.

[movonne]

5. Right wing always wants right wing...

[jaxx]

6. Look at who signed the letter.

Radical rightwing nopers, every one of them. The same ones we hear constantly screaming about whatever the Obama administration does. Piss on them.