“If you want to insult me, you can do it overseas, you can do it in Turkey, you can do it in foreign countries, but I would encourage you, mister president, come back and insult me to my face”, The Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate said this on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
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The president has repeatedly indicated there is no danger to Americans from allowing the mass influx of Syrian refugees into the nation, but a combination of refugee-liked terror-related incidents, both recent and past, call into question the credibility of the president’s reassurances.
“Apparently, they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America”, the President said, apparently referring to Chris Christie saying he would not even accept into the US a 5-year-old Syrian orphan. “I can not think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that’s been coming out of here during the course of this debate on refugees.’ What’s your response to that?”
J. Scott Applewhite/AP House Speaker Paul Ryan has pledged to draw up a bill that would halt Syrian refugees from entering the U.S.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, another GOP presidential hopeful, also confronted the president on his comments.
Taking aim at Obama’s remarks, Cruz argued that it’s unfitting of a president to engage in personal insults and attacks. Obama called the idea of vetting Syrian refugees by religion “shameful”.
“Let me suggest something Mr President, if you want to insult me, you can do it overseas”.
For his part, King told reporters, “You have to come down to one person…Ted Cruz checks all the boxes for me”. It is easy to toss a chap insult when no one can respond.
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Some Republicans, including presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz, have said that only Syrian Christians should be eligible for asylum the U.S. “We can do it anywhere you want”. (Cruz suggests giving refugees a “test.”) But we’re living in the age of the conservative movement’s final transition into William F. Buckley’s worst nightmare, so Cruz’s thoughts no doubt echo the idiot rabble he represents, the shrieking loons who’ve successfully wrested conservatism away from the at least intelligent and well-meaning people who once adhered to its beliefs. The more important issue, he said, is that “the administration lacks the ability to differentiate between those who are terrorists and those who are not”.
