Posted on 08/11/2021 3:49:16 PM PDT by Libloather
A fired-up Sen. Cory Booker praised GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville for forcing a vote Tuesday in the Senate on defunding the police, saying he wanted to "hug" his GOP colleague for putting to rest "scurrilous" accusations that Senate Democrats want to strip law enforcement of money.
Tuberville, R-Ala., authored an amendment to Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget resolution that would decrease federal funds to localities that defund the police. In teeing up the politically charged vote, Tuberville said in a floor speech that "opposing my amendment is a vote in support of defunding the police and against the men and women in blue."
If the intent was to get Democrats to vote against the measure to make a point that liberals want to defund the police, Booker said he was "excited" to squash that opportunity.
"This senator has given us the gift that finally, once and for all, we can put to bed this scurrilous accusation that somebody in this great esteemed body would want to defund the police," an overly animated Booker, D-N.J., said Tuesday night from the Senate floor.
Booker encouraged all of his colleagues to not walk, but "sashay" down to the well of the Senate to vote in favor of Tuberville's amendment to "put to rest the lies" that Senate Democrats want to defund law enforcement.
"This is a gift," Booker said. "If it wasn't complete abdication of Senate procedures and esteem I would walk over there and hug my colleague from Alabama!"
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Take away his security team and the capitol police.....we’ll find out just how quick he wants to defund things.
Who knew Spartacus was LGBTQ+? (Did I miss any letters?)
Hey Booker Democrats everywhere are defunding the Police
Trying to recall the name of that film he starred in...
Vote Totals? R? D?
Booker’s a complete weasel.
This could serve to undermine the woke white left-wing base as much as anything.
A huge blunder on Booker’s part. The non-corporatist, energetic, collectivist wing of the Democrat party is deadly serious about defunding the police.
This would be like a Republican bragging that he was voting to make sure there was more funding for abortion.
so while they are hugging each other over this completely irrelevant vote, the country is burning. Awesome guys, keep up the great work.
Babylon Booker
If he wanted to “put it to rest” he would have introduced the bill himself. AssClown!!
Booker may have voted NOT to defund the police, but he seems to have no problem spouting bare faced lies.
Calm down there Spartacus.
Booker couldn’t have done this on his own?
Sorry, Spartacus, but the word in the ‘hood is that T-Bone is unhappy with this vote.
Now the extreme left will not vote for Booker because he is pro cop.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sander voted for it. Sounds a lot more like Tubberville's blunder.
Last I heard there were 26 letters in the alphabet, but liberals tell us there are 48 different "genders".
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