Not leaving ill enough alone

The administration continues its amateurish, petty and overall deplorable handling of the situation in Honduras. Even as interim president, Roberto Micheletti has made a generous offer to restore order to his country which entails ousted President Manuel Zelaya a return to the country on the condition that he renounce claims to the presidency, the administration is moving towards cutting off aid to the country.

U.S. State Department staff have recommended that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be declared a "military coup," a U.S. official said on Thursday, a step that could cut off as much as $150 million in U.S. funding to the impoverished Central American nation.

The ultimate decision will reside with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

This is on top of the restriction of visa for Hondurans to visit the U.S. and the $18 million that has already been suspended after the June 28th ouster of Zelaya as well as the balance of grant funding from the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation ($139 million) that is also in jeopardy depending on Clinton’s decision.

This administration has had every opportunity to get on the right side of this situation but has instead used every opportunity to get in line behind the likes Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega in meddling in the affairs of a foreign country and refusing to acknowledge the rule of law in that country.

Wild card alert! Wild card alert!

Lanny Davis, a prominent Washington attorney who represents the Honduran Latin American Business Council, said the new proposal "shows Mr. Micheletti is not concerned about power -- he is offering to resign entirely from public life. ... The question is, does Mr. Zelaya acknowledge that no one, even the president, is above the law?"

Article completely drops the ball in neglecting to acknowlege that Lanny Davis is a Clintonista that served in the Clinton White House as special counsel and actively campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the primaries. This might get interesting.

P.S. For you college hoops junkies out there, Davis is the father of Seth Davis, CBS' studio analyst for NCAA basketball.