Cory Booker’s Conscience
Cory Booker is no courageous senator. He's Big Pharma's favorite Democrat.
Cory Booker’s in the news. But of course he is.
New Jersey’s junior senator used to live in Newark, but these days he seems to live in some alternate cyber-reality, coursing through a circuit of cable wire that runs from news media outlet to news media outlet and social media platform to social media platform, allowing Booker to jack himself into digitized view at a moment’s notice. He’s the high-tech entrepreneur senator/superhero of the future, from the future, for the future (say, circa 2020).
He’s in the news this week for half his day’s work Wednesday. During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Booker testified that Sessions lacks the “courageous empathy” needed for the position.
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