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Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., will defy President Obama by meeting with de facto Honduran president Roberto Micheletti.

"No U.S. Senator has yet been to Honduras to assess facts of crisis. @JohnKerry & Obama admin using bullying tactics to hide truth," DeMint wrote on his Twitter.

The meeting goes against the administration's policy of isolating Micheletti's government, which seized control from elected president Manuel Zelaya on June 28th.

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President Obama hit back at critics who say the U.S. not doing enough for Honduras following a trilateral meeting with President Calderon of Mexico and Prime Minister Harper of Canada in Mexico today.

Mr. Obama said those complaining that America has not done enough following the military coup that resulted in the overthrow of the government of President Manuel Zelaya on June 28 "can’t have it both ways."

"The same critics who say that the United States has not intervened enough in Honduras are the same people who say that we're always intervening and the Yankees need to get out of Latin America," said Mr. Obama.

The president said the U.S. has done everything it could, including condemning the coup and calling for an immediate reinstating of President Zelaya.

"If these critics think that it's appropriate for us to suddenly act in ways that in every other context they consider inappropriate, then I think what that indicates is that maybe there's some hypocrisy involved in their -- their approach to U.S.-Latin American relations," said Mr. Obama.

Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper supported the statements made by Mr. Obama, suggesting that "If I were an American, I would be really fed up with this kind of hypocrisy."

"You know, the United States is accused of meddling except when it's accused of not meddling," Mr. Harper said. He went on to say that the latest criticism of the U.S. not doing enough in Honduras comes from the very same people who would condemn a long standing cooperation between Colombia and U.S. for "legitimate security and drug trafficking reasons."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to meet with exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.

Zelaya was thrown out of office last week in what some are describing as a coup. He attempted to return to Honduras on Sunday, the AP reports, but was blocked from landing by military personnel.

The day following the coup, President Obama said that he believed the coup was "not legal" and that the United States still considered Zelaya Honduras' "democratically elected president," the New York Times reported.

According to Reuters, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said that the United States seeks to restore "democratic order" in Honduras. Kelly added that "democratic order" means "the return of the democratically elected president to Tegucigalpa, the return of Mel Zelaya."

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Politics Today is CBSNews.com's inside look at the key stories driving the day in Politics, written by CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:

**American troops hand over security in Iraqi cities...

**President Obama continues pushing agenda as it "gets harder" to get bills passed...

**Latest on Gov. Mark Sanford, R-S.C...

**Former McCain campaign workers unload on Sarah Palin in new Vanity Fair article...

IRAQ: U.S. troops handed over security in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities today and CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports that Iraq's national government marked the occasion Tuesday by holding a massive military parade in Baghdad - along the same route and with the same level of nationalistic gusto displayed by Saddam Hussein in a similar rally shortly before his ouster.

Logan reports, however, that not all Iraqis are so eager to see their country's security handed over to their own federal government.

Midnight's handover to Iraqi forces filled many citizens with pride but also trepidation that government forces are not ready and that violence will rise. Shiites fear more bombings by Sunni militants; Sunnis fear that the Shiite-dominated Iraqi security forces will give them little protection. Many in the country - Sunnis in particular - do not trust their Shiite-led government, which is strongly pro-Iran.

"[M]any people stayed home because they feared violence," adds the New York Times' Alissa J. Rubin. "As official Iraq celebrated, the American military announced the death of four soldiers on Monday from combat operations in Baghdad, a reminder of the continuing hazards for American troops here and the vulnerability of soldiers as they wrap up operations in the field.

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