QOTD: Cruz encourages Reid to leave the DC Ritz-Carlton & visit the border

Senator Harry Reid
How about it, Senator Reid?

I love it:

SenatorΒ Ted CruzΒ (R-TX) responded to Senate Majority LeaderΒ Harry Reid’s (D-NV) characterization of the U.S.-Mexico border as β€œsecure” by telling his colleague to come take a look for himself.

β€œPresident Obama and Harry Reid both engage debates divorced from the facts and divorced from the reality,” Cruz said onΒ Fox News Sunday. β€œHarry Reid lives in the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., and I’m sure from his perspective the border seems secure. I would invite Harry Reid to come with me down Texas and see the border.”

Make sure to view video of Senator Cruz’s commentsΒ at the Mediaite link above.

Meanwhile, reports are surfacing that Texas Gov. Rick Perry will announce today a plan to deploy 1,000 TX National Guard troops to the border:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) reportedly plans to dispatch the Texas National Guard to the U.S. border with Mexico, according to news reports.

Perry will announce his plans Monday to mobilize some 1,000 guardsmen to the Rio Grande Valley to increase security at the border, according to theΒ Monitor, a south Texas newspaper. The newspaper quoted a state senator andΒ an internal memo it obtainedΒ from a state official’s office.

Perry spokesman Felix Browne told The Washington Post he would neither confirm nor deny the report, but said all details will be given at a news conference at 2 p.m. Central time Monday in Austin. It was unclear what mission the guard willΒ have.

I suspect the major TV news outletsΒ will have coverage of Perry’s afternoon presser. Make sure to tune in to your preferred network at that time.Β If the reports are indeed true, please keep the troops in your thoughts and prayers. It’s not just hot and uncomfortableΒ at the border right now. It’s dangerous. Β