Cory Booker Has Been Shaming and Protesting the Trump Administration for 20 Straight Hours [View all]
Cory Booker Has Been Shaming and Protesting the Trump Administration for 20 Straight Hours
He is putting his body on the gears of the United States Senate because the operation of that machine has become too odious to do anything else.
By Charles P. PiercePublished: Apr 01, 2025 2:19 PM EDT
I hung in there as long as I could on Monday night, but Senator Cory Booker outlasted me. And he was still going when I got up Tuesday morning. And he’s still going as I type this post. He has moved on to shaming the House conservatives for their fiscal cruelty and irresponsibility. (Yeah, good luck with that.) What Booker is doing is not technically a filibuster since Booker is not holding up action on a specific bill. But with the help of questions from his Democratic colleagues, Booker is holding the floor, as is his right as a senator, and he is rounding into his 15th hour, and there is no damage being done to the republic from that quarter, so that’s a good thing.
He’s moved on to shaming conservative Republicans for sucking up to the guy who sucks up to Vladimir Putin by demolishing NATO. Yeah, good luck with that.
Sometimes it’s necessary to just stand up against the momentum....
The elite political media largely have managed not to notice what Booker is doing. It has escaped the notice of the keepers of Politico’s front page. The New York Times buried it beneath tariffs, the latest vandalism out of the White House, and the race for a seat on the Wisconsin supreme court, as did The Washington Post. Nevertheless, Cory Booker is now talking about how the president has no respect for the people his policies will hurt. Yeah, good luck with that.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64353657/senator-cory-booker-marathon-protest-speech/
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