Lol, did you even read up on the examples, which you are obviously not familiar with? Jim Wright was the Speaker of the House, and Jim McDermott was a congressman. Both had a handful of their democrat colleagues along with them. You don't have to get much further than the first page of a google search to see that they were undermining the diplomacy efforts of the executive branch. There are plenty of other examples like John Sparkman and George McGovern going to Cuba in 1975 which is where the earlier State Dept quote came from.

"some idiot visiting a lame regime" would be Jessie Jackson going to Cuba and Nicaragua, which also happened.

I think the John Kerry incident is notable because he wasn't even a congressman at the time. The argument could be made whether or not it's appropriate for a congressman to do that, but certainly not a private citizen.

Clearly you aren't interested in facts though.

The Logan act angle is a poorly thought out talking point. In 1975 even the State Dept said, "Nothing in section 953 . . . would appear to restrict members of the Congress from engaging in discussions with foreign officials in pursuance of their legislative duties under the Constitution". No one has ever been convicted under the Logan act and in fact no one has even been charged with it in over 200 years, despite the long history of Democrats cozying up with communist dictators and the like. How about John Kerry meeting with the North Vietnamese in Paris in 1971 while he was a private citizen? Or maybe "Bagdad Jim" McDermott who met with the Iraqis in 2002 with a few other Democratic senators? There's also former Speaker of the House Jim Wright (among others) who worked with Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua to undermine Reagan. I'll stop there, but there are plenty more examples if you are looking for a Democrat to charge with a Logan Act violation.

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1829244

hmmm, I need to look into this /dev/null

I've been running out of disk space on my MythTV box! :)