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Cory Booker's 'I am Spartacus' moment

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Booker, widely believed to be a possible presidential contender in 2020, threatened to release documents related to Kavanaugh's time in the George W. Bush White House that he said were "committee confidential."

"I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate," Booker said, noting that he was "knowingly violating the rules."

Later Thursday, Booker said that the release was the "closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an 'I am Spartacus' moment."

Booker then posted about a dozen pages of documents onto his Twitter feed related to racial profiling and race-conscious government programs.

"Bring it," Booker said.

But it appears the documents that Booker posted had already been cleared for public release.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/cor...ment-release-not-as-defiant-as-it-seemed.html

:lamo

What an epic dissapointment from Senator Booker.
 
"I'm going to release those documents which have already been released and I'll take the consequences, even though there will be none!"

"I am Spartacus!"
 
Those 2020 campaign ads aren't going to write themselves, Bucky;)
 
The ending for Spartacus didn’t turn out so good. Bookers grandstanding just showed how much disregard Democrats have for rules or laws in this country.

Good luck with that blue wave! :lamo
 
MrMike said:
The ending for Spartacus didn’t turn out so good. Bookers grandstanding just showed how much disregard Democrats have for rules or laws in this country.

Good luck with that blue wave! :lamo
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Senators like Booker actually make old Senators like Joe Biden and John Kerry appear formidable.
 
Laugh, but it probably helped him more than hurt him. There will always be fewer people who see the follow up story than the original story. Politicians have been capitalizing on that fact for a long time.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Laugh, but it probably helped him more than hurt him. There will always be fewer people who see the follow up story than the original story. Politicians have been capitalizing on that fact for a long time.
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Not sure about that. Fox called out CNN, MSNBC and some other station for running that story on their internet sites although it had been debunked for some hours prior.

Now CNN and MSNBC interviewed Booker about that "performance" of his. (grin)

"In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Booker refused to answer whether or not he knew that the documents were released before pulling his stunt."

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"In an interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Booker repeatedly dodged questions on whether he knew that the documents were cleared to be released before this grandstanding stunt."


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https://www.dailywire.com/news/35571/watch-cnn-msnbc-go-after-cory-booker-lying-booker-ryan-saavedra
 
MrMike said:
The ending for Spartacus didn’t turn out so good. Bookers grandstanding just showed how much disregard Democrats have for rules or laws in this country.

Good luck with that blue wave! :lamo
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You mean the kind of disregard for rules and/or norms like depriving a sitting president his right to nominate, get a hearing on, get a vote on, a Supreme Court Justice?

Cya in November, methinks we will creme your right wing arses.
 
Actually the real event in this if there was one was the entire Dem side of the Panel coming to Booker's defense offering that they wanted to be included in any Senate charges brought against Booker. That was followed by Sen Hirono actually releasing documents that had been restricted by Bill Burck and had not been released for public view.

It looks to me that Booker and the Dem side of the panel had decided during the previous evening that Booker would start the ball rolling with the docs he had wanted to release and the fact that they had been finally cleared for release two hours before the panel resumed for the morning session simply did not deter the Dem side of the panel from the way they had planned this out. Frankly I would not have changed how they planned it out either. Sort of makes the point in one way. These late releases of Docs is frankly ridiculous. These are SCJ appointments. McConnell literally stole Garland from Obama. Yet documents can't be released in a timely manner for Kavanaugh. So Sen Hirono has released docs for public view that have not been released by Burck that the Dem side of the panel believes should have been released for public view.

Ultimately the Dems are on more than one mission here:
1) They are trying to do everything they can do to give Senators some wiggle room to consider voting No on Kavanaugh that might need that wiggle room
2) They must prove to the Democrat base that they have fought as hard as they can fight on this SC appointment. It is critical to what they want to accomplish in Nov.

They may fail on item 1. But it won't be for lack of trying. They will not fail to prove to have put up the good fight to the Dem base.
 
OscarLevant said:
You mean the kind of disregard for rules and/or norms like depriving a sitting president his right to nominate, get a hearing on, get a vote on, a Supreme Court Justice?

Cya in November, methinks we will creme your right wing arses.
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Nobody was deprived of their right to nominate. Hearings and votes are not a 'right'.

Stop making things up.
 
Talk about an anti-climax...
 
Acadia said:
Those 2020 campaign ads aren't going to write themselves, Bucky;)
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It's going to be easy to create campaign ads for a man who ran into a burning building and pulled a woman out of her bed as a mayor.

Can you imagine Trump vs this hero? LOL

 
hanger4 said:
Nobody was deprived of their right to nominate. Hearings and votes are not a 'right'.

Stop making things up.
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Stop playing games we know what you guys are up to what you did with Merrick Garland but I'm not making stuff up you know what I'm talking about and you know the substance of what I mean though I might have the details incorrect.

The GOP has become the party of scumbagery and the world is beginning to realize it
 
OscarLevant said:
Stop playing games we know what you guys are up to what you did with Merrick Garland but I'm not making stuff up you know what I'm talking about and you know the substance of what I mean though I might have the details incorrect.

The GOP has become the party of scumbagery and the world is beginning to realize it
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Again, the President was NOT denied his Constitutional right to nominate. There is no Constitutional right to a hearing or vote. You were factually incorrect, own it, learn from it and move on.
 
hanger4 said:
Again, the President was NOT denied his Constitutional right to nominate. There is no Constitutional right to a hearing or vote. You were factually incorrect, own it, learn from it and move on.
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You missed the point entirely.
 
hanger4 said:
Again, the President was NOT denied his Constitutional right to nominate. There is no Constitutional right to a hearing or vote. You were factually incorrect, own it, learn from it and move on.
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Don't be a moron. He didn't say anything about "Constitutional right to nominate". He spoke of Republicans' lack of respect for "rules and norms" with regard to the nomination of Merrick Garland. And he was absolutely correct. Obviously, you're one of those right wingers who pretends to love and respect the Constitution...but has never actually READ it. So, I suggest that you take a look at Article II, Section II, clause II of the Constitution....and "learn from it", yourself. The Senate's CONSTITUTIONAL responsibility is to "advise and consent", neither of which was provided during Garland nomination process. Republicans refused to hold hearings........refused to meet with the nominee.......refused to offer ANY "advice" or "consent". They, instead, fabricated a "precedent" about election year nominations that was quickly debunked. What the GOP did to the Garland nomination was simply unprecedented in our history. And anyone who argues otherwise is either ignorant, or lying.

So the simple fact of the matter is that republicans who have the nerve (or, more accurately, the lack of character) to complain about tactics being used by Democrats during the Kavanaugh hearings.....are hypocrites of the absolute highest order.

He's right, and you know it. Just stop arguing. It makes you look foolish.
 
MrMike said:
The ending for Spartacus didn’t turn out so good. Bookers grandstanding just showed how much disregard Democrats have for rules or laws in this country.

Good luck with that blue wave! :lamo
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Who cares the emails are pretty damning about Kavanaugh
 
MrMike said:
Actually...no, they aren't.
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You're right. He should have said something like: "Who cares, the emails were pretty damning about Kavanaugh...to people who oppose the politics of White grievance, and who value ethics and morality, but not to Trump supporters."


I'll be smiling as SCOTUS member Kavanaugh is sworn in.

Have a nice day!
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No doubt, you will. Thanks for proving the point, above.

Enjoy it while it lasts.
 
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