BUSH CENSORS LIBRARY TO COVER-UP COUP ATTEMPT! DEMANDS 2nd, POLITICIZED LEGAL OPINION!

Oh, wait–it’s John Kerry, not Bush? Nevermind, then.

“Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.” And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”–Ronald Reagan, 45 years ago today.

Fresh from trying to re-live the glories of his youth and engineer yet another “helicopter-off-the-embassy”-defeat in Afghanistan, John Kerry has demanded that the Law Library of Congress change its legal opinion about Manuel Zelaya’s coup attempt to become a “President-For-Life”, and his subsequent impeachment.

The Law Library said it was indeed a lawful impeachment, despite the Obamanistas siding with the Communist Zelaya. Kerry wants the opinion to comply with Chairman Obama’s wishes.

Ed Morrissey:

The US has rejected the one real solution to the problem, a national election that had already been scheduled before Zelaya’s removal and one in which Zelaya’s own party wants to participate.

That’s why this is so boneheaded; even if this were a great tragedy, voters can easily re-install Zelaya’s party shortly if they so wish. Obama fears they will not, hence the thuggery. As Rahm says, “A good strongman is a terrible thing to waste.”

If Kerry and Berman want a resolution to the Honduran crisis, then they should be demanding changes from Obama and his team, not silence from the Law Library of Congress.

Instead, they’re Speaking Power to Truth.

We were warned. Here’s why Honduras clings to its Constitution despite the bullying and coercion from the Yankee Colossus of the North:

Last week, President Ortega inadvertently provided the best defense yet of the Honduran decision this summer to remove Manuel Zelaya from the presidency. Nicaragua has a one-term limit for presidents, and Mr. Ortega’s term expires in 2011. However, the Nicaraguan doesn’t want to leave, and so he asked the Sandinista-controlled Supreme Court to overturn the constitutional ban on his re-election.

Last week the court’s constitutional panel obliged him. The Nicaraguan press reported that the vote was held before three opposition judges could reach the chamber in time for the session. Three alternative judges, all Sandinistas, took their place and the court gave Mr. Ortega the green light. Mr. Ortega has decreed that the ruling cannot be appealed.

This is classic strong-man stuff on Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela model.

Shhhh.

Quiet.

I’m trying to hear the sounds of the administration calling this a “coup” as they did in Honduras. Or denying the Sandanistas visas. (*crickets chirping*) Nope. Nothing. Nada.

(They can’t cut off aid–that was already done because the Sandanistas were stealing all of it.)

Since he’s such good friends with Danny Ortega from way back, maybe Kerry and Tom Harkin could visit Ortega in Managua again and have a word with their pal. Sen. Harkin is the guy in the middle who looks like Carlos Santana groupie stoned on Ecstasy.

If Ronald Reagan were still in office, Ortega wouldn’t dare. But these Cardboard Men are team-mates. Say hallo to your leetle fren, senators, your freshly-minted Presidente-for-Life Danny Ortega.

The Examiner:

Ortega called the court’s decision “indisputable” and asked his opponents to have faith in the electorate.

“The people will decide at the election. Why deny them the right to choose whomever they want for whatever post?” Ortega said at a rally broadcast live on radio and television.

Latin American leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe also have maneuvered to extend their terms in office.

In Central America, leaders of the interim government of Honduras have accused ousted President Manuel Zelaya of attempting to undo presidential term limits through a referendum on whether to revise the constitution. Zelaya vehemently denies the accusations.

Ortega left office in 1990 after opposition candidate Violeta Chamorro defeated him in nationwide elections. He was re-elected in 2006.

Monday’s ruling also would allow consecutive re-election of the country’s mayors, roughly two-thirds of them Sandinistas.

Nicaraugua is back to the classic “Free and Fair Elections,” Commie-Style: One Person, One Vote, One Time…And One Time Only.

It’s bad enough Honduras has to fight their own communists to remain free.

They shouldn’t have to fight ours, too.