After all the mean-spirited, self-aggrandizing pandering this week by Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee (especially the execrable Josh Hawley) to the lowest instincts of their extremist base, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) devoted his time to a celebration of American progress represented in Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
If you missed it on Wednesday, do yourselves a favor and watch. Keep a tissue handy:
I would have paid good money to see a split-screen showing the looks on the faces of Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, John Cornyn, and Josh Hawley as Booker showed them up as worthy of a fusillade of Charlie Pierce insults.
Los Angeles Times reporters Nolan D. McCaskill and Kent Nishimura caught Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas checking his mentions after some of his patented, performative filibustering on Wednesday.
Brian Klass responded, “We have designed systems of power in which many of the people who rule over us don’t care at all about improving lives or solving problems, but only care about fame, power, social media stardom, and performative narcissism. It’s an utterly broken system.”
Tell me about it. I live in what likely is Rep. Madison “comms rather than legislation” Cawthorn’s district only for the rest of the year. Even in this R+9 district, the boy-congressman’s antics as freshman may already have bled away much of his support. Seven Republicans have stepped up to primary him.
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