Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) finished his grandstanding, showboating floor speech on Tuesday night. I can’t believe he didn’t end it by dramatically collapsing on the floor like a scene from a movie. That would have been the perfect way to put a punctuation mark on his stunt, but alas, he didn’t think about that.
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Still, the left is heralding Booker’s speech as something historic and meaningful, even though it wasn’t a filibuster because it didn’t prevent or stop any Senate business. My friend and colleague Stephen Kruiser wrote in Wednesday’s Morning Briefing, “Booker wasn’t filibustering any proposed legislation; he was having a very expensive, taxpayer-funded public airing of his daddy issues. Once again, the American public had to foot the bill for
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