On January 21, 2012, Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois had a rather large stroke, and for that I am deeply sympathetic. Ever since, I’ve refrained from being overly critical of the man out of respect for his illness and resulting disability. But there has to be a limit on what he can get away with, and he’s clearly exceeded it in his comments about the deal with Iran.
For starters, he’s using the president’s middle name for no other reason than to suggest that the president is secretly more loyal to Iran than he is to the country he leads.
Kirk, who has consistently spoken out against the deal with Iran, told WRKO’s Financial Exchange radio program on Tuesday that he believes “tens of thousands of people in the Middle East are gonna lose their lives because of this decision by Barack Hussein Obama.”
… “He will ask the Democrats all to stand with Iran and make sure that we can’t get two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate.”
Then he’s accusing the president of having Democratic Senator Bob Menendez arrested for no other reason than that he opposes making a deal with Iran.
Asked if any Democrats disagreed with the president, Kirk pointed to New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez, who he believed “has just been indicted maybe on the crime of being against the Iran deal.”
And he didn’t stop there. He went so far as to boldly assert that the president’s goal here is to make sure that Iran has nuclear weapons.
Kirk said he believed the only reason the president supported legislation from Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, that allowed Congress to review the deal was because he “wants…to get nukes to Iran.”
“Under the Bob Corker legislation that recently passed, Congress can do a resolution of disapproval and the president can veto it. The only reason that the president supported Corker legislation is because it allows him to get what he wants on Iran which is to get nukes to Iran.”
So, I am now going to lift my self-imposed ban on questioning the mental capabilities and moral character of Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois. He’s some combination of insane and morally reprehensible, and only he knows how much of this is sincere and how much of it is just him doing his part for evil.