Full disclosure...This from the Hill.com an arm of the dnc election committee.It is no secret that Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) viewed the bright lights and rolling cameras at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh as the perfect stage to launch their 2020 presidential campaigns. It is time to evaluate their performances.
We can start with Cory “Spartacus†Booker, who has been known to play the hero at the most opportune times and who once befriended a drug dealing imaginary friend named “T-Bone.†Booker came to the hearings prepared and well rehearsed. But his grand debut was quickly eclipsed by the publication of the now infamous New York Times anonymous opinion and an eyebrow raising exchange between Kavanaugh and Harris.
Booker subsequently attempted to redeem himself. This led to a bizarre series of events culminating in his desperate insistence that his wild stunt did in fact violate Senate rules. In his first question and answer session with Kavanaugh, Booker stated that documents classified as “committee confidential†contained damaging details about the position Kavanaugh had taken in the past on racial profiling and other issues.
Looking for a way to distinguish himself on the second day, Booker resorted to publicly releasing these allegedly secret documents, with a theatrical flourish about how he was risking his Senate seat by supposedly violating Senate rules. The only problem? His self proclaimed “I am Spartacus†moment was predicated on a lie because Republicans had already cleared those documents in question for release.
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/406464-are-cory-booker-and-kamala-harris-the-best-democrats-have-for-2020
