Sen. Booker, you did well. You turned ugliness into light, to remind America of itself

[Zorro]

After days of this, years of this, a lifetime of this, Judge Jackson surely needed what you had to offer. She’s not the only one.

Dear New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker:

Some days, you are really irritating.

That’s because you insist on being a happy warrior in grumpy times. With that eternal, internal and, yes, infernal sunshine of yours, you are to the body politic as that 1-877-Kars4Kids ad would be to a man with a hangover.

You float on pink clouds of bipartisan bonhomie, making friends of opponents, shoveling constituents’ driveways, racial slights bouncing off you like bullets off Superman, so upbeat, you make Fred Rogers look like Lewis Black. Even one of your former aides once said, “Sometimes it’s like, give me a break, Cory, take it down a notch.” This was in a Politico profile under the headline, “Is Cory Booker For Real?”

So yes, senator, some days you’re quite annoying. But there are other days, too. Wednesday was one of them.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee weighing her ascension to the Supreme Court, where she would be the first African-American woman in its 232-year history. The clownish grandstanding of senators like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham were in full flower, displays of performative distress over phantom issues having nothing to do with her fitness, and everything to do with making their contempt palpable.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/03/27/sen-booker-you-did-well-you-turned-ugliness-into-light-to-remind-america-of-itself-column/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. He really nails this issue again and again, very motivational. /nt

[Paladin]

2. Sorry, Sen. Booker gets no plaudits from me.

Not after the chickenshit interview he gave on CNN this morning. He bent over backwards to provide cover for those Republicans who made Judge Jackson's hearing a non-stop nightmare this past week---couldn't even be coaxed into agreeing that some racism was part and parcel of the whole sick show. To say I'm underwhelmed by Senator Booker is a vast understatement.