OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT:

Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's recently deposed president, calls it a coup. Many, perhaps most, of the countries in the Organization of American States call it is a coup. Even the men who helped carry out the coup admit, in a secretly recorded conversation, that what they were doing was effectively a coup, staged to provide them immunity from a corruption investigation.

But the United States doesn't think that the blatantly naked power grab that just took place in Brazil--which ended the Workers' Party's 13-year control of the presidency, installed an all-white, all-male cabinet, diluted the definition of slavery, lest it tarnish the image of Brazil's plantation sector (which relies on coerced, unfree labor), and began a draconian austerity program--is a coup.

It's democracy at work, according to various Obama officials.

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