DeMint supports overthrow of democratic government

After everything I've said about Mitch Daniels, you might find it hard to believe that there's another high-ranking American public official who's as much of a swinging dick as he is.

And that would be Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina).

This week, the democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by a right-wing coup. World leaders including President Obama have condemned the coup.

But DeMint may be the first member of Congress to publicly support the overthrow of Zelaya. He called Zelaya a "Chavez-style dictator" - a reference to Hugo Chavez.

There are no "Chavez-style dictators", Jim. Like Zelaya, Chavez was also democratically elected.

So DeMint is saying that if we don't like who wins the election, we should just stage a coup to depose them?

Maybe Jim DeMint is just angry because nobody asked him to participate in the coup.

(Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/07/02/sen-demint-supports-honduran-coup)