Sen. Cory Booker continued his tour of adoring media on Monday as he joined CBS and The Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a three-segment interview to look back at his 25-hour talk session and ahead to what comes next. Booker has been eager to compare himself to the Civil Rights Movement, and Colbert was more than willing to assist him in those efforts.
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Later, Colbert recalled his previous interview with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and mourned, “Let's talk about action and inaction, and one of the things that made some people mad at the Democratic leadership is voting for the CR which is not a clean CR, that had a lot of cuts in it, that seemed like the only place where the Democrats could exercise any leverage over what was going on, the slash and burn going on in Washington, D.C. I had Senator Schumer on last week to talk about this, and I have great respect for Senator Schumer, but I found his answers less than nutritious. I've been wondering why you voted against it.”
If $13 billion in non-defense spending is “slash and burn,” then this country will never get its spending under control. As it was, Booker tried to wax poetic, “Look, for me, that was a catalytic point, and I thought that if we took a stand there, then we would not stand alone. I think faith is one of these things there when you step out to scary dark things, faith is one of two things is going to happen. You're going to find solid ground underneath you, or the universe will send you people that will teach you how to fly, that will soar with you.”
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