Thursday, September 6, 2018

Cory Booker has his 'I am Chelsea Manning' moment: releases confidential Kavanaugh emails

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker believes he is above the rules of the Senate and released confidential Kavanaugh emails. He called it his "I am Spartacus moment" but it was more like an "I am Chelsea Manning" moment.

Booker called it an act of "civil disobedience" and has drawn the condemnation from the Republicans on the committee, and while he can be dismissed from the hearings, it's likely that nobody on the GOP side has the testicular fortitude to do anything about it.

“I am going to release the e-mail about racial profiling and I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate,” Booker said at the beginning of the third day of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. The emails he was speaking of were from 2002.

After his pretentiously brave announcement,  Booker the drama queen released 12 pages of emails-- which had been marked "committee confidential" -- online for the public to read. The emails included internal post-9/11 discussions surrounding issues of racial profiling, a procedure that is used by law enforcement all the time and involves describing a suspect in a crime.

The New Jersey Democrat said he would “knowingly” violate Senate rules to release the emails and hoped that the nation would see him as a folk hero and vote for his nomination as president in 2020. Some of the other Democrats on the committee expressed their support for Booker's effort just in case they did, indeed, nominate the fool.

The previous day, in a dramatic exchange, drama queen Booker implied Kavanaugh had been open to racial profiling tactics, citing an email exchange between Kavanaugh and a colleague. However, Booker did not provide Kavanaugh a copy of the emails to review while questioning him about it, because he likely knew Kavanaugh would have a valid explanation. However, this prompted an objection from Sen. Mike Lee, who charged that it was inappropriate to "cross-examine" Kavanaugh about documents that he "can't see."

But being that Booker is, in reality, a coward intellectually, he thought it best to play up his indignation without giving the SCOTUS nominee the opportunity to challenge him.

Booker said Thursday he would release it anyway, saying the document is a “great illustration of the absurdity of the process” because there’s nothing in it that’s “national security-related.” 

That isn't for the drama queen to decide. Nobody died and made him king.

“I come from a long line, as all of us do as Americans, that understand what that kind of civil disobedience is and I understand the consequences,” Booker said, using the term to imply that black people are still in chains.

Top Republicans mocked and denounced Booker, thought to be considering a 2020 campaign for president, for the move, but the probability they'll actually do anything about his refusal to follow the rules is as likely as finding Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dancing at a bar mitzvah.

“Running for president is no excuse for violating the rules of the Senate or of confidentiality of the documents that we are privy to,” Texas Sen. John Cornyn told Booker.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, dinged Booker for repeating his point.

“Can I ask you how long you're going to say the same thing three or four times?” Grassley asked.

“I'm saying I'm knowingly violating the rules,” Booker replied. “Senator Cornyn has called me out for it.”

“How many times are you going to tell us that?” Grassley replied.

Cornyn then read the Senate rule that says: 
“Any Senator, officer or employee of the Senate who shall disclose the secret or confidential business or proceedings of the Senate, including the business and proceedings of the committees, subcommittees and offices of the Senate shall be liable, if a Senator, to suffer expulsion from the body; and if an officer or employee, to dismissal from the service of the Senate, and to punishment for contempt.”

Booker replied, “Bring it.” He's just so brave, it makes us all want him to be our next president, if only he would run.

The Democrat also said in that schmuck buckling way he has: 
“This is about the closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an, ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”
Sound the trumpets!

A number of Democrats, including Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, threw their support behind Booker’s move.

“I completely agree with you. I concur with what you are doing…So if there is going to be some retribution against the senator from New Jersey, count me in,” Durbin said stupidly.

“We support what Sen. Booker is doing here,” Klobuchar said without looking down at her notes.

It came as Kavanaugh entered the final stretch of questioning in his confirmation hearing Thursday, with Democrats springing a series of cryptic questions – in an apparent attempt to box the nominee into an embarrassing admission or at least throw him off what has been a relatively steady performance.

All I can say is "Thank you, Harry Reid for imposing the 'nuclear option' which has come back to bite you on the buns."

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