Originally published at: Inside Cory Booker’s Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor
A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m. on Monday evening — and he doesn’t plan on leaving it any time soon. In a text message to TPM, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he was about to begin speaking for as long as he could stand. “I am disrupting business as…
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Better than a strongly worded letter.
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Finally, an intelligent sentient gentleman with a spine and some spunk and moxie. I love this, Senator Booker!
How many minutes until the Brown-shirted orangemen arrest him?
Let’s see who else in Congress grows a pair
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Thank you Senator Booker.
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I approve this message.
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I assume the final quotations from Booker say this is “a history I revere,” rather than “reverse.”
Stand strong, Senator Booker!
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“That invokes a history which I reverse and am truly humbled by,” Booker wrote. “There is no risk here of my arrest, no chance of a beating or other physical attack."
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. If the maladministration can figure out a way to make you pay for this, they will.
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“There is no risk here of my arrest, no chance of a beating or other physical attack."
Well, let’s hope not. But those trumped-up maganuts, whether Republican Senator, folks in the gallery, or Muskovite thug, may not agree.
Sen. Booker will probably convince few Republicans, who will likely just walk out or twiddle their phones. It’s Democrats he will have the most leverage with, and I hope this encourages them to replace Chatrles Schumer as their “leader.”
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Chuck Schumer will be able to watch it from the Senate gym, where he’ll be on a treadmill next to his good friend and colleague Senator Republican.
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Cory Booker is a real American Patriot.
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Working up a sweat and going nowhere. Very symbolic of the Old Guard.
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A good start. Glad to see someone in congress take action. I hope his colleagues are inspired to grab their own moment in the spotlight on subsequent days.
Try it. See what works. Revise and Try again.
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I don’t want to be a cynic, so I won’t. Godspeed Senator Booker.
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Booker is right to seize this moment but it still remains puzzling Democrats were not collectively more obstructive and much earlier.
No Murc’s Law here – Democrats are in the minority and Republicans are responsible for the ongoing horror – but McConnell showed how a president he didn’t like could be blocked and Senate gridlocked until something closer to what he wanted was offered so it is not as if there was no model to work by.
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It is mostly performative but right now that is all the Dems have. Is it good for his 2028 Presidential run? Maybe.
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Every other democratic senator should help him with this. It’s not like they are too busy.
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I fully support Sen. Booker in this act of political bravery. I have wondered whatever happened to him though, as he was once a rising Dem star. Is this his second act? Hoping that somewhere in the bowels of the DNC, there is
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Calling up the spirit and FIRE of John Lewis; I think Booker will do well. America seems to be in a daze, unable to know how to respond. A bell, a whistle; a F-N Foghorn of oratorical pushback would be awfully nice.
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You Go, Cory. Speak loud and long for all of us.
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Watching him now on C-SPAN via YOUTUBE.
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