Lamborn heads to Honduras

Look who was one of three House Republicans to join Jim DeMint on a field trip,

Four U.S. Republican lawmakers met with Honduras' interim president on Friday in a challenge to Washington's condemnation of the coup that brought him to power.

The brief, amicable visit with the leaders of the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya highlights a divide in Washington, where the Obama administration is working to reinstate Zelaya but many conservatives side with the government installed after soldiers arrested the president in his pajamas and flew him into exile.

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, the leader of the delegation, said before the trip that even calling Zelaya's overthrow a coup is "ill-informed and baseless."

DeMint and three representatives — Aaron Schock and Peter Roskam of Illinois and Doug Lamborn of Colorado — smiled for photographs in a book-lined office of the stately presidential palace with interim President Roberto Micheletti.

They also met with the major candidates in Nov. 29 elections that many call illegitimate, and planned to speak with Supreme Court justices who are deciding whether Micheletti had the constitutional right to suspend civil liberties.

One thing hasn't changed from the days of Reagan, Republicans love them some right-wing authoritarian coups, especially in South America. Hey, at least Micheletti hasn't killed any nuns yet.