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   From: Clampett@Reagan.net   
      
   At least, that's what it would have been called by Republicans if Dems had   
   done this during the Bush administration. Eric Kleefeld at TPMDC:   
      
     . Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) is visiting Honduras in order to support the   
   recent military coup against a leftist president, which has been opposed by   
   the Obama administration and all the surrounding countries in the region.   
   (Late Update: DeMint's office says he is not taking sides during his visit   
   to the current Honduran leadership, denying the New York Times reports that   
   this was his intention.)   
      
     . Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) will be going to the upcoming climate change   
   conference in Copenhagen, bringing a "Truth Squad" to tell foreign officials   
   there that the American government will not take any action: "Now, I want to   
   make sure that those attending the Copenhagen conference know what is really   
   happening in the United States Senate."   
      
     . House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) traveled to Israel, where he   
   spoke out against President Obama's opposition to expanded settlements.  He   
   also defended Israel on the eviction of two Arab families from a house in   
   east Jerusalem, which had been criticized by Secretary of State Hillary   
   Clinton.   
      
     . Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) boasted in June that he told Chinese officials not   
   to trust America's budget numbers. "One of the messages I had -- because we   
   need to build trust and confidence in our number one creditor," said Kirk,   
   "is that the budget numbers that the US government had put forward should   
   not be believed." Since then, he has declared his candidacy for U.S. Senate.   
      
     As Kleefeld points out, these aren't just overseas junkets, these   
   Republicans aren't only creating their own version of foreign policy, they   
   are acting on it by traveling overeas and directly undermining official U.S.   
   policy. The only similar situation that comes to mind under the Bush   
   administration was when Reps. David Bonior, Jim McDermott, and Mike Thompson   
   visited Iraq prior to the American invasion. Prior to the invasion. They   
   came back convinced that there were no WMD in Iraq, and that the Bush   
   administration was hellbent on taking us into that war, anyway. And they   
   were, and continue to be excoriated by the Right for that trip.   
      
     Here we have Republican members of Congress directly undermining American   
   diplomacy. Where are the great patriots among the Republican party or in the   
   punditocracy now?   
      
     http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/the-gops-new-foreig   
   -policy-undermine-american-diplomacy.php   
      
     Flag pin = I Love America more than you.   
      
     They're acting just like John Kerry and Jane Fonda--except, deep down,   
   Pugs know they're wrong, and deep down, we all knew John and Jane were   
   right.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)