When President James Buchanan declared that the United States Senate is the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” he clearly had not envisioned Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.). In yet another tirade on the floor, Sen. Booker attacked not just President Donald Trump but his Democratic colleagues for voting for a bipartisan bill on law enforcement. Behind the “I am Spartacus” theatrics is a more troubling trend in the United States Senate as it devolves into a more populist, impulsive institution.
In 1872, Moncure Daniel Conway published an account of a meeting between Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Jefferson questioned Washington’s support for the creation of a second or upper house in the form of the Senate. Washington asked:
“Why…did you just now pour that coffee into your saucer, before drinking?”
“To cool it,” answered Jefferson, “my throat is not made of brass.”
“Even so,” rejoined Washington, “we pour our legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it.”
These days, it seems like legislation goes to the Senate to heat up. The Senate is losing its constitutional and cultural moorings as the cooling saucer for our heated politics. Instead, it is becoming more like . . . well . . . the house.
The role of the Senate is key to the Madisonian design in forcing compromise and deliberation. Senators were given longer, six-year terms to insulate them from the immediate political demands that often motivate the House.
That has changed with the 24-hour media-saturated political environment. It has changed in this age of rage. Cue Corey Booker:
Putting the claims of “secret police” and, once again, the imminent collapse of democracy, Booker was immediately set upon by his colleagues after he moved to block the bipartisan bill by fellow Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.).
Klobuchar effectively accused Booker of grandstanding and hypocrisy:
“I will note that Sen. Booker objected to my police reauthorization bill, the cops funding, the Clinton cops funding, long before Donald Trump came into office. So this is not just about this. This is a long dispute over this type of funding.”
She also snapped back at Booker saying that he could not make a key hearing on the drafting of the bill because of a conflict, noting “I can’t help it if someone couldn’t change their schedule to be there.”
Cortez Masto struck back at the notion that Democrats should simply refuse to cooperate with the Administration or that working with Republicans is what Booker calls “complicity.”
Booker is clearly manuvering for a possible presidential run and seeking to tap into the rage growing on the far left. He is also the inevitable result of the rising rhetoric of figures like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in pandering to the far left of his party. Democratic senators are now being denounced as “establishment” as Booker and others tack to the left to lead “the resistance.”
Booker just raised the anger ante for Democrats. They must either join the resistance and the rage or face the ire of their party. In the interim, the constitutional system will suffer. We need the House of Representatives as the “people’s house.” We do not need two Houses of Representatives. The Senate ideally moderates, not magnifies, the pressures and passions in the political system.
Booker’s tirades clearly resonates with some on the far left, but it is likely to come at a cost for the institution itself. As tensions build on the Democratic side, Teddy Roosevelt’s quip seems to be coming true in voting for bipartisan legisation: “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.””
When I first read about this, I thought it was Booker trying to look big and bad. Then I watched the video. That is the kind of crazy, unhinged, hate and raged filled people the sane and normal Democrats want out of their party. The only people he is appealing to is the stupid and crazy that has taken over the Democrat party. Democrats, seriously, you need to get these kind of people out of your party. Take your party back. They are making you look not only bad, but their policies are stupid and crazy.
Good on Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) for calling Booker out.
“the sane and normal Democrats ”
Where exactly are those to be found? They have been quite unobtrusive of late, almost to the point of suggesting extinction…
My cousin’s father was a union steward, staunch Democrat, a great guy during 1950’s and 60’s. My well educated cousin took after his father. Both were wonderful guys. Booker’s story above reminds me of a comment my cousin made years ago about a liberal church he attended. He said, “These people call themselves Democrats. I was raised a democrat. I know what a Democrat is. They are not Democrats. They’re Communists.”
Glad to hear that some dems called BS on these theatrics–which is all Booker seems to have these days. Loser.
We’re witnessing the disintegration of our Senate and our civil society. Let’s take a step back and look at the forest rather than the trees. The reason for the disintegration will become clearer.
We are witnessing the disintegration of the political voice of half our nation (i.e., Democrats). The tens of millions of Americans who call themselves Democrats have no political voice.
The Democrat Party is in chaos. Its donor class from California and New York choose the Senators, Congressmen, and Governors who rule over the Democrats living in Red States and Swing States. Its only unifying dogma is: The End Always Justifies The Means, By Any Means Necessary. Let’s not forget the Disinformation Governance Board.
The Democrat Party anointed Kamala Harris, who never got a single vote from the We-the-People-Wing of the Party. It anoints superdelegates to pick the Peoples’ rulers. It censors the political voice of more than half our nation (i.e., Democrats). The end always justifies the means.
Instead of saying what it fights for, the Democrat Party says what it fights against … one man one vote, borders, reduced taxes, parents, and the Bill of Rights.
One can only wonder what the Democrat Party is, why it is, and who it is. But we know this: it’s the reason why we’re witnessing the disintegration.
OMG
BREAKING: Kamala Harris says she won’t run for California governor
Her old boy friend Mr Brown wants her to shoot for the Supreme Court.
Yeah that’s a smart move.
Oh god no, we already have three mental midgets on the court now.
Cory Booker Captures the Decline the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Corey Booker EXEMPLIFIES the decline of the US Senate. Fixed it for you Jake…
Why is it only the Democrats who speak and act like angered little kids? . . . Not only Booker – it is Waters, Schumer, Schiff, Jeffries amond so many others.
It applies to all parties. Take the republicans.. Trump, listen to him whine and throw tantrums.
Nope, but nice try.
Petulant children who didn’t get their own way for once in their life.
Look at me everybody! My name is Cory and I wanna play in the presidential sandbox too!
True. A one trick pony whose tricks are growing old except among the most partisan
I think the Democrats are doing a disservice to the black community by electing blacks who are public fools and idiots. I can hardly think of a black Democrat politician who isn’t a disgrace.
By contrast, the Republicans are a bit more intent on personal competence than checking a race or gender box and black Republicans are often impressive and accomplished individuals.
If redheads were given the same affirmative action treatment the Democrats give to blacks we would quietly begin to suspect all redheads were retards.
King was right in saying we should judge people by their individual qualities rather than the color of their skin. That should go both ways. End box checking and promote competence.
Can you say O-bama
*. Booker is auditioning for a part in the new Star Wars.
A councilman in Virginia (unsure) was doused with gasoline and set on fire at his place of work today. Taken to hospital, no update on condition.
And in Cincinnati a councilwoman celebrated the beating two white civilians received by a gang of African Americans, who among other things sucker-punched a middle-aged woman, knocking her unconscious and causing her to fall to the pavement.
Meanwhile a millionaire woman in Louisiana bought a Lamborghini for over $100,000 while claiming government Medicaid for years
Whee, the people!
Looks like racism is rearing it ugly head again in Kansas. You go racist.
racist? Nope he just told the truth
Always the same from these dolts:
Their First goto smear is Racist
Followed by White Supremacist
Followed by Fascist
Followed by personal attacks, they have lost their minds, idiots.
Racism is thinking so little of minorities that you seek to obliterate their existance when it is about bad conduct.
If you seek to push your identity in everyones face – if we are all to take note of the fact that you are black, gay, trans, muslim, … when you are protesting, then you must expect us to take note when you are beating people.
^^^*. This hyper-emotionalism is suspect. People tend to see Booker as harmless but is he. He’s unhinged here in the video shouting half truths, deceptions. These members of congress should be screened for drug use monthly, bi-monthly? No one really knows this man.
The same can be said of Mamdani. No one knows him. He also appears to be unhinged.
The same is and was true of Buraq. No one knew him. He hadn’t a known history. It wasn’t until the second term people began asking who is this man. The realization was so shocking mass hysteria was the result.
Americans are a naieve bunch always trusting. Who is this Booker character, clown Spartacus? His clownish persona throws people off. Listen to his half truths being shouted.
He’s a fright in reality?
*. Comment is misplaced fyi. It’s not a response to OMFK. It’s an addition to anon.
Drug test Booker #1.
Behind the “I am Spartacus” theatrics is a more troubling trend in the United States Senate as it devolves into a more populist, impulsive institution.
it’s in the air. it’s everywhere in America.
Today I received my weekly issue of New England Journal of Medicine via email, and although I usually just delete it b/c I know NEJM is no longer about medicine, but about politics, I clicked on the link for laughs. True enough, a Perspective piece by Democrat, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, former Obama CDC Director, has all of the sincerity of Cory Booker’s grand standing. To wit:
Dismantling Public Health Infrastructure, Endangering American Lives
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — and its ability to support clinicians, communities, and organizations — is under assault. The U.S. administration’s plan to eliminate or transfer CDC programs that it inaccurately deems unnecessary, duplicative, or politicized would reverse decades of health progress, make Americans less safe, and increase health care costs. The dismissal and replacement of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP),1 firing of more than 1500 CDC staff, and closure of half of CDC national centers represent the most serious threat to the U.S. public health infrastructure in the agency’s nearly 80-year history. Making organizations more effective and efficient requires strategic progress; the extreme reductions under way amount to unilateral disarmament against health hazards.
Frieden, T.R. (2025). Dismantling Public Health Infrastructure, Endangering American Lives. NEJM. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2509087
From a recent manuscript I wrote:
Atherosclerotic diseases such as ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke are presently the leading global causes of cardiovascular (CV) mortality and are expected to continue to be the leading causes of CV mortality in 2050 (Chong, B., et al., 2024).
Then there are the dire statistics on the mental health of Americans since 2020, the run away US health costs for patients in spite of third party payers and hospitals/clinics making a mint, the merciless castration that public health leaders did to themselves, and the lack of faith of Americans therein due to Biden’s COVID reign of terror, and the largess of virtual jobs at the CDC where “scientists” made 6 figures. All from home. Then there is the detail that Dr Tom Frieden, an Infectious Diseases/HIV Physician would like HIV patients to ignore: there has been no breakthroughs in HIV cures, never mind a treatment to eliminate the virus from the genome of HIV patients in over 30 years since Antiretrovial treatments were brought to market, nor an HIV vaccine. It’s as if Democrats like Booker and Frieden refuse to look at the plank in their own eye, while calling attention to the splinter in everyone else’s.
to quote James Carville regarding the Democrat Party in a piece he authored for the NYT: Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/opinion/carville-democrats-midterms-mamdani.html
Not even physician former Democrat CDC directors can resist the urge from taking a hit on the crack pipe that billows DNC talking points. And bile. Lots of bile. Then again, Dr Frieden graduated from Oberlin College, so there is that
See what you think about the healthcare initiative. Start at about 1:04, though some of the news before is interesting. The news on healthcare starts with RFK.
Gigi can listen to a few numbers from the President. These numbers are on video and not off-the-cuff.
Estovir,
From what I can gather there has been no healthcare breakthrough that conseuentially increases overall life expectance during my entire lifetime.
Much of the third world now has life expectance fast approaching that of the developed world.
This is not because their healthcare has advanced beyond ours. It is because throughout the world the basics of fundimental healthcare realized by the mid 20th century are now available globally, because advances in agriculture – through the same time period now ALSO are available globally and even the poorest countries in the world can feed their people – if they can maintain sufficient political stability.
Absolutely nothing has happened in medicine in the past 75 years that comes close to matching the benefits of antiseptics, antibiotics and IV fluids.
I am NOT pissing on the medical industry – or claiming that absolutely nothing has advanced,
But I AM pissing all over the malthusians who are constantly claiming that if we do not spend billions then millions will die.
Obama care costs us Trillions – yet has had no measurable effect on US mortality rates or life expectance trends – indeed many have changed negatively since PPACA passed.
It is increasingly obvious that vast swaths of govenrment bureacracy cost trillions and accomplish nothing.
Nor is this confined to medicine.
The US won the cold war by defeating the soviet union economically – free markets raised standards of living far faster than central planning.
Yet oddly in the long run the Central Planners have won – because the developed world has gradually become the same government planned bureacracy that we defeated in the cold war.
While there are very serious philosophical and moral problems with socialism and communism, the USSR was defeated economically – not morally and philosophically. It was defeated because NO top down economic system of any kind can deliver the standard of living that free markets do.
In fact even in top down economies it is still the vestiges of free markets in the form of black and grey markets that provents utter collapse.
It is increasingly obvious that vast swaths of govenrment bureacracy cost trillions and accomplish nothing.
A researcher colleague works on a genetic neurological disease that affects children from birth who do not reach their teenage years. He is a PhD Biochemist, very smart guy in his field, coagulopathies, but has zero training in neurological genetic diseases, never mind pediatric medicine. He burned through his NIH grant last year, showed me the data he had collected, and all of it, per his analysis, was garbage. He had made in error in his assumptions and the data proved him wrong. But he had to write a report to justify the NIH funding and massage the report so that he could apply for more funding. So he took one data point that was marginal, turned it into something plausible, and said he had no choice if he wanted to keep his research lab and staff going.
What I described is the typical outcome of academic scientists who receive NIH funding. I have told many researchers at my university that if they really want generous funding and are passionate about their ideas, to pursue angel investors and cut the strings of NIH. The problem is that most scientists and physician researchers lack interpersonal skills to sell themselves. They do not have the skillsets to convince someone with deep pockets that they should fund their research. And yet, the wealth in this country runneth over. There are angel investors everywhere but you have to find them yourself.
You have to put yourself out there in hopes someone with money will like your idea. World famous Dr Robert Gallo HIV researcher did just that. I met him in Miami Beach 20+ yrs ago during a luncheon a church friend from church was hosting. My friend was very wealthy, had a gay partner who was HIV positive, and he believed in Robert Gallo’s ideas. My friend was very pleased with Robert Gallo’s work, and clearly Gallo benefited in spades. That’s the way it works.
Alas there is a lot of truth to academic scientists living in ivory towers. They’re too chicken to go off campus and sell someone on their research ideas.
As for breakthrough discoveries, there have been many. They aren’t just about extending life but can also be about relieving pain. Cox 2 inhibitors are marvelous drugs. I recall when Celebrex was launched since I worked for pharma at the time. Gabapentin is another wonderful drug. The new drugs of GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists are impressive. Of course the onus is on the patient to change their lifestyle habits, exercise, lose weight, make healthy decisions, etc. These prove to be a bridge too far, but that is not the fault of the medications
OT, but a legal topic: Tampon Tim and the Dem-controlled state legislature passed a law that nobody who commits murder as a juvenile can possibly get life without parole. Result: a guy who hacked his family to death with an axe when he was 16 is walking free at age 53. Now . . . do you feel safe on the streets with that guy roaming around?
https://nypost.com/2025/07/30/us-news/notorious-ax-murderer-released-from-prison-early-thanks-tim-walz-law/
Sheesh, while they’re at it the Dems might as well invite tens of thousands of convicted murderers and rapists into the US with an open border, not to mention Chinese and Iranian sleeper cell members. Or they might as well defund the police. Or they might as well encourage violent riots while immigration officials are trying to do their job. Oh, I guess they did all that.
The law is redundant with supreme court 8th amendment case law.
I do not know about Walz’s law, but generally it is a bad idea to subject juveniles to the same justice as adults.
We distinguish between juveniles and adults for good reason.
The person you cited has been in jail for nearly 40 years, That is probably the maximum sentence I would support for someone under 18 committing ANY crime.
We know that brain development – particularly in males does not complete until nearly 35. We also know that violent criminal conduct decreases with age.
I am far more likely to support well crafted 3 strikes laws than juvenile life sentences.
People who commit violent crimes at older ages are likely to continue to do so no matter what.
I would note that on issues of criminal justice we have an extremely polarized country and both sides are Wrong.
We should not be defunding police. We should not be expecting perfection from them.
We also should not be trying to turn every offense into a capital offense.
There is little evidence that decades of incarceration is societaly beneficial – in all but a very few cases.
Actual sociopaths who are violent – really can never be let out of prison – their recidivism rate is astronomical, and they make up 30% of the prison population. But they are also the best able to manipulate the system win the sympathy of shrinks and parole boards. Sociopaths are the most likely to reoffend, and the most likely to be released early.
That is something we should be trying to deal with.
Outside of sociopaths criminal violence declines rapidly with age – with a few exceptions people in their 50’s and 60s and older should not remain in prison.
Further we have developed numerous alternative forms of punishment these are often cheaper and more effective – though we need to be selective about their use.
Today if you are middle class and white – you will likely get club fed or house arrest or myriads of forms of alternative punishment – these do not work perfectly – but they do work better and cheaper.
My wife is very heavily involved in “restorative practices” – this has been applied badly in schools and elsewhere with the net effect of making things worse. But the FACT is that if used approriately – as a supliment to traditional punishment, they are very effective.
We forget that the infamous criminals of the 19th and early 20th centuries were punished FAR less severely than juvenile offenders today.
This is not about coddling criminals, it is not about defunding police. But it is about actual justice, and attempting a create a system that works better.
If a 16 year old hacks his family to death, and its not some form of self defense, then the proper sentence is the death penalty, but it needs to be carried out expeditiously, not after decades of appeals. If he were 13 or less then MAYBE some kind of juvenile sentence, but 16 is definitely old enough to know better, and the world has enough bad apples that it would be better off without crazy murderers of that ilk. I don’t speak with malice towards these people, I actually have some amount of sympathy for anyone who’s hit rock bottom. But our crowded society can’t really afford to coddle the extraordinarily large number of unhinged people that endanger it anymore. Locking them up in the hellholes we call prisons for decades isn’t a kindness, but we certainly can’t let them roam free. I think we’ve probably already hit a critical mass, where the lunatics are influencing the course of the ship. In the end, death for murder is simple justice.
“It’s the [Supreme Court], stupid!”
– James Carville
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It’s not the 17th Amendment.
It’s not the vote.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The entire communist American welfare state is unconstitutional and must have been struck down by the Supreme Court at every incremental step of its implementation.
The Supreme Court has completely failed to fulfill its duty to Support the Constitution.
America can persist without the 17th Amendment and without the vote.
America cannot exist without the Constitution.
“… These days, it seems like legislation goes to the Senate to heat up. The Senate is losing its constitutional and cultural moorings as the cooling saucer for our heated politics. …” JT
For what it is Blame: Nancy Pelosi ret. (Now Adam Schiff), Alex Padilla, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Raphael Warnock, all “activist groomers” for Democratic Party.
They don’t know when to quit the Theatrics. Now is the time to ‘get down to business’ not ‘get down to politics’. We’re all living beyond our means and killing the planet in the process.
Killing the planet? How are we doing that?
They call it ‘Earth Overshoot Day’
Earth Overshoot Day: This annual event marks the date when humanity’s consumption exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate resources within a year. In 2025, Earth Overshoot Day is on July 24. After this date, resources are essentially “borrowed” from the future, depleting natural resources.
i.e.: The point of which we can no longer Feed the World and Sustain the Planet.
Earth Overshoot Day Is Coming Sooner and Sooner
By: Felix Richter ~ Jul 23, 2025
https://www.statista.com/chart/15026/earth-overshoot-day-comes-sooner-every-year/
https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/
Of all the seventeen million species of living organisms on planet Earth, Homo sapiens is just one.
“. . . humanity’s consumption exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate resources . . .”
I remember that warning — 200 years ago, from Malthus.
Then came brilliant entrepreneurs, under a system of economic freedom, who created: gas and oil and electricity, mass production of food, housing, and transportation, worldwide, split-second communication, heating and cooling at the push of a button, earth-moving and hand-held power tools . . .
If you’re worried about consumption, get out of the way of the producers.
We’re not.
We aren’t going to destroy the planet faster than we will destroy ourselves. Replacement birthrate for our species is 2.1. Most of the advanced cultures on the planet are at 1.2 to 1.7 and falling. The global rate is at 2.3 and falling. Mass migration has been necessary to prop up non-technical labor shortages and to sustain aging populations.
Extinction, likely not. More like a demographic ice age that will reset the nation-state game with significantly reduced populations. The planet will just shrug it all off.
IMO, Disagree with this Olly. Mankind is a true Homicidal Creature at heart.
We humans beings, whatever we are, we’re just homicidal killing machines.
Get it? Homicidal killing machines, that’s all. And all the military training and all that stuff, it’s just finishing school.
Business is the Dog eat Dog expropriation of the Planet ‘resources’, the Supply Chain is the expensive conveyor of mankind’s consumption of the Terra Firma.
Our appetite for survival beyond the earth’s capacity to produce is insatiable.
You’d better believe it, kid.
None of that addresses the notion that we are killing the planet. The planet is effectively a living, breathing organism that is far more intelligent in design than we are. It provides an over-abundance of resources that we have yet to figure out ways to make them available where “we” exist. Droughts and famine exist in some parts, while flooding and avalanches destroy entire communities. Humans overcrowd areas where we have figured out how to exploit the natural resources, while much of the planet remains unpopulated. It’s not the planet that is in danger, it’s mankind’s. Either we engineer our way to expanding our global footprint, or start depopulating through ever decreasing birthrates, wars and/or depletion of available resources.
“Mankind is a true Homicidal Creature at heart.”
You are, of course, speaking for yourself.
Nancy is still the U. S. Rep for the 11th district in CA. You must be thinking of Dianne.
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is alleged to have had an adult film on behind him during a state meeting.
Walters is the far-right Republican who attempted to mandate that every classroom have a Trump Bible in the state.
Speaking to News9 in Oklahoma City, board members revealed the details of the executive meeting as it unfolded.
“We were in the middle of our executive meeting… I had noticed the TV was on when I first came in the room, but I really didn’t pay much attention,” said Becky Carson. “I had to make eye contact in that direction, and I was kind of in shock. I was like, ‘What am I seeing? Are those women naked?’… I kind of moved forward a little bit. And I was like, ‘Yes, they are fully unclothed.’”
Reporter Robin Marsh asked if it was full frontal nudity and Carson replied, “Oh yes, yes.”
Meanwhile, fellow board member Ryan Deatherage explained he was sitting to the left of Carson. He’d seen the video and said he was trying to figure out how to bring it up without embarrassing the whole board.
Carson confessed that she shouted at Walters like a child.
“I basically treated him like a 15-year-old boy. I said, ‘What am I watching? What is on your TV? Get it off now.’ He looked at me and then turned around and said, ‘Oh my gosh,’ and stood up, picked up the remote… he goes, ‘I can’t get it off.’ And I said, ‘Get it off immediately. Get it off now,'” she recalled.
She also noted that Walters appeared more shocked that he was caught than he was shocked over the video being displayed during a state meeting.
Republicans.
The party of family values
You seem desperate. Take your meds.
Yes, Republicans have a couple bad apples, but the democrats have 99% bad apples.
“Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color.”
“My jeans are blue.”
– Sydney Sweeney
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“[The American Eagle ad was a] love letter to white nationalism and eugenic fantasies, and Sydney Sweeney knew it.”
– Zellie Imani
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“All I see are red hats and red flags.”
– DJ Bella Ferrada
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Sydney Sweeney is a racist.
I love Sydney Sweeney.
If someone doesn’t like the ad don’t buy the product
“If someone doesn’t like the ad don’t buy the product”
I already had some of the product. And I like the ad, but whether I liked or disliked it would have little to no influence on whether or not I buy more of it. I make my purchase decisions based on function, quality, and value, seldom (not “never”) giving politics any weight. If that puts me in a small minority, I think that is very sad.
The husband of a Republican operative in Wisconsin, who proudly proclaimed he was voting for Donald Trump to take on child predators, has been arrested on child predator charges.
Scott Soucek, who is married to the Door County Republican Party chairwoman and former Republican National Convention Delegate Stephanie Soucek, posted on Facebook that he was backing Trump “to fight against human/child trafficking,” on behalf of “my children and my grandchildren.” He also posted social media memes accusing former President Joe Biden of inappropriately touching children.
But on July 24, according to the report, Soucek “was arrested … and accused of accessing hundreds of child porn images through a file-sharing system.”
He faces 25 years in prison.
Republicans.
The party of family values.
You come across as desperate.
Anon-6:35PM In stark contrast to the volumes of leftist felons that are defended in the democrat-MSM, If the story has merit, the accused should stand trial and be punished if guilty. We are not the same.
The 17th Amendment needs to be repealed with the added caveat that the Senate shall not be allowed to draw up legislation. A body that is supposed to advise and consent is self defeating by allowing them to legislate.
“It’s the [Supreme Court], stupid!”
– James Carville
___________________
It’s not the 17th Amendment.
It’s not the vote.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The entire communist American welfare state is unconstitutional and must have been struck down by the Supreme Court at every incremental step of its implementation.
The Supreme Court has completely failed to fulfill its duty to Support the Constitution.
America can persist without the 17th Amendment and without the vote.
America cannot exist without the Constitution.
I thought the whole point of the Senate was that they were supposed to represent State interests in legislation.
The Senate was destroyed by the 17th amendment. Now we have two House of Representatives, one even more insufferable than the other.
Yes when 17A disenfranchised the states we deviated drastically & disastrously from the intended system of federalism
Shut up, George the Confederate, posting under 3 different names.
The 17th was ratiifed according to the law of the land, so it is THE LAW, the PROPER LAW, and the UNIMPEACHABLE LAW.
Actually, you are incorrect. A subsequent Constitutional Amendment can undo an earlier one.
Adding a provision to overturn the disastrous Baker v. Carr (1962) would be a bonus.
Booker is such a little drama queen (emphasis on “queen”).
I guess his obviously-fake bravado is somehow supposed to appeal to the young men the Democrats have been losing for years now?
Sit down Cory. Nobody thinks you are a tough guy – ESPECIALLY the Democrats who voted FOR this bill.
I actually love the Booker speech in that YouTube video, heart and passion…..Here’s the problem though, what we have here is irony, because everything he complained about in the video is exactly what the Democrats did to Trump in his first term, and what they’ve continued to do since then. The Dem’s (only the ultra left wing, west-east coast, Dem’s) try to “cancel” people they don’t care for or agree with. They did to Trump exactly what Booker says Trump is doing to them now. For Trump this is just pay back, right or wrong. I think some of the stuff Trump has done is over the line pretty crazy, such as targeting any Latino/Hispanic male out in public in Los Angeles County based on race/ethnicity alone. But it’s just pure Trump political payback, it is purely political. Dem’s don’t have any room to complain when they did the exact same actions to Trump. It is wrong, but I honestly cannot blame Trump at all for the payback. The Dem’s are never going to work WITH HIM, even if it is best for the Country, because politics is more important to them. Pelosi and Schumer (well, add in Shifty Schiff too) are probably the worst of the worst in this respect. Pelosi IMPEACHED Trump 2 weeks before he was leaving office, the most ridiculous political action I have ever seen. Shameful action. Almost as bad as when Pelosi tore up Trumps State of the Union Speech on live TV right after Trump finished it. There is NO reason for such disrespect. That is as low rent, low life pure, political BS I’ve ever seen. Like those ridiculous trials Trump went through, especially that one in New York, the state trial, that was ridiculous…. Until Booker and the Dem’s act the way they want Trump to act it is better to STFU.
You bring in a lot of other issues. Sure Pelosi is a pig, for example. Sure the Biden admin sucked. But why don’t you apply to Trump what you want to apply to Booker? (Not being a hypocrite. Not doing what you say is wrong.) I supported Trump, but no more. Based on what you wrote, you understand why. What is important is that Booker is right, not any history. By your logic we would never be able to change anything. There is no perfect politician to lead to charge. Booker is good enough for me. I hope he does run.
These were MAGAs before MAGAs existed. Notice lack of grasp of reality and the pure evil.
When you’ve got nuthin’, this is the nonsense that the left resorts to ……. truly childish.