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.””
Before Pres. Buchanan was the caning of Sen. Sumner on the Senate floor (for talking like Sen. Booker).
BREAKING NEWS
The Babylon Bee reports: 9 Early Frontrunners For The 2028 Democratic Primary.
“Sure, the calendar may still read “2025,” but the 2028 presidential primary season will be here before you know it. While big names like Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grab all the headlines, there are other Democratic candidates making waves behind the scenes.
The Babylon Bee has obtained the following list of frontrunners for the 2028 Democratic nomination:
Hunter Biden: The perfect heir to the family legacy, only with more F-words and crack.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Few candidates have been able to build as much support among the Democratic base as this wife-beating illegal immigrant.
That one bronze statue of the sassy black woman from Times Square: Still smarter than Kamala Harris
Angel Reese: The party could use someone with her track record of beating popular white people.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: He has valuable experience in running a country and costing American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Luigi Mangione: Insiders say he would be a killer candidate.
Stephen Colbert: Word has it his schedule is wide open.
Elmo: The party has a strong history of success when it comes to nominating puppets for president.
Joe Biden’s Autopen: It ran the country before, and it can do it again.”
We declared independence from a democracy, for thus very reason.
A Repubic, fully informed as Jefferson intended, is required.
I can’t wait to replace the population with illegal alien invaders and give the country away to the clown show.
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President – Jasmine Crockett
Vice President – Cory Booker
Speaker of the House – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Senate Majority Leader – Raphael Warnock
The Senate was not just designed to impede the impulses of the House. It was also designed to be anti-democratic. Its members were picked by state legislatures, not by voters directly. It was hoped that the legislators would pick men of higher quality than the voters. Maybe it was true for awhile but party politics trumped any concern for character and intellect, Then the “progressives” gave the decision to voters directly. A Senator is now rarely someone of impressive character, morals or intellect.
Nope, The Decline of the Senate is best seen when they declined to convict Trump after his violent attempted coup. The next best example is the daily blow jobs that the Republicans give Trump.
Hahahaha coup you freaking loser. Get new talking points. We reelected him, so nobody cares about your feefees.
ROFL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThJcHjCI9j4
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OT
Speaking of illegal aliens such as Cory Booker, was it the intent of the Framers of the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause to support the crime of illegal border crossing and inadvertently allow pregnant illegal aliens to confer citizenship on the babies they crossed the border to bear on U.S. soil, thereby making said babies U.S. citizens?
I think not.
And I think any sane judge is capable of “interpreting” the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause to preclude citizenship for the babies of criminal illegal alien mothers who are irrefutably subject to the jurisdiction of their countries of origin.
“Was it the intent of the Framers of the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause to support the crime of illegal border crossing”? No because immigration restriction were still decades away.
Illegal aleins are subject to the jurisdiction fo the US – they are not foreign diplomats, foreign soldiers or embassy workers.
I understand turning the 14th amendment on its head is popular on the right.
But it is both unconstitutional, and a bad idea.
Contra those on the right – this is NOT a huge problem.
ICE is currently deporting illegal aliens who had children while in the US – nearly always they take their US citizen children with them. Further the numbers of people this impacts is miniscule.
Further most on the right do NOT try to follow the bad policies of Europe – this is one of those.
Europe does no have birth right citizenship and the results are large numbers of non-citizen residents who have been their for generations but who do not identify wit europe as their home.
This i very bad for the country.
The Framers of the 14th Amendment did not intend for the Citizenship Clause to be interpreted to allow illegal alien mothers to confer citizenship.
The Framers intended for the children of freed slaves to be undeniably American citizens by birth in the U.S.; they intended to erase doubt.
They intended for illegal aliens and their babies to be deported back to their countries of origin and jurisdiction and to not even be addressed by the Citizenship Clause.
The 14th Amendment may only be interpreted by a rational court to preclude citizenship for the babies of illegal aliens.
Crime does not pay, and the crime of illegal and criminal border crossing may not pay by conferring citizenship to the similarly illegal alien babies.
If Joseph McCarthy started the de-mythification of the United States Senate, Cory Booker’s taken it straight to Sillyville. His wild gesticulation accompanied by hackneyed, B-movie dialogue takes the cringe factor over the top. The man’s a dunce, a fool and an embarrassment beyond all redemption. Did I mention his rage act is as phony as a 3 dollar bill?
Holy crap! Cory Booker engaged in oratory. So horrible! Should he be serving coffee as Clinton suggested of Obama?
Everything he said was right on. You have to make an effort to avoid seeing ICE in Storm Trooper drag taking away grandmothers. They have no right to hide their identity. They should be subject to identification for citizen complaints. If there are actually in real danger everywhere – which I doubt – they should reconsider their actions.
I went from a dyed in the wool Trump supporter to an staunch opponent – Readers, please join me if you haven’t already – in the last three months.
I supported Trump to close the borders and eject criminals, gang members, terrorists and spies – not hard working farm hands WHOM WE NEED, and grandmothers and kids and the gainfully employed.
I supported kicking fresh illegal arrivals off medicare/medicaid, not people who had paid in for 10 years+, not American citizens, not long term residents.
I supported Trump retracting citizenship from those who made significant lies in the application process, not people who use their first amendment rights to disagree with him.
I took Trump at his word when he said he would release the Epstein information, not cover it up. His argument that Biden would have used it is ABSURD. Clearly powerful people on both sides are implicated and no party hack wants it released. Victim’s info is easily concealed. He is protecting the guilty. Trump IS the deep state. All of that was BS.
You have fallen far Professor Turley. Booker is 100% justified and I am happy to see a Dem get off the mark. We need to change Congress in mid-terms and kick Trump out and prosecute him. Failing that, we need to hobble and humiliate him and prepare the prison cell for his arrival in 2029.
Hahahahaha storm trooper you’re such a pathetic loser with your tired talking points.
You have nothing
Most of everything you said above is not happening or are big fat lies – you are not living in the REAL WORLD OF TRUTH/FACTS and most of all, you where never a Trump voter or supporter! When people like you get up and start saying this kind of crap we who have common sense will TUNE YOU OUT!
Obviously you think these are lies if you tune out anything you don’t want to hear. The kinds of self-defeating things people say! You just cut your legs out from under yourself.
“I went from a dyed in the wool Trump supporter to an staunch opponent”
shut up, Gigi, ya lying troll.
*. Deterioration- FUBAR ^^^^
Does anyone find it interesting that this lying troll posted right after Gigi posted her last rant at 3:08 PM?
Cocincidence? I think not. 7 minutes was just enough time to author this steaming turd.
I don’t even know what Gigi refers to. Saying that you imagine that a particular person said something is not a counter argument. It is an IQ test that you fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThJcHjCI9j4
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I thought you were posting some information that showed I was wrong (or possibly right). So I watched. I myself am not afraid of information. I am willing to be wrong. I have all the same MAGA ideals, I just realized that Trump is an enemy of MAGA. And of course the video was: nothing.
Can’t anybody here put some words together? That mean something? That don’t say you ignore anything that doesn’t fit your world view, which of course is the same as saying: You know nothing.
Prosecute him for what? Deporting ILLEGAL immigrants is required under federal immigration law. If they want to come here legally, let the Agricultural business get seasonal visas for their entry.
There are reportedly 40 Million illegal interlopers in our country, they are depleting social services, over loading the healthcare system, schools, and many of these people have no intention of assimilation whatsoever, they are here for the benefit and will return to their country once they have made their nest egg. Destroying the US workforce is thereby destroying American society, not everyone is capable of higher education and manual labor is key to our country. 40 M people equates to 2X plus the population of Florida. It is shifting political power due to their density impacts on districting providing additional Congressional seats for Democrats. The impact that illegal labor has had on our blue collar workers and construction industry has been devastating. Trades are no longer being filled by US citizens but have become increasingly performed by foreign workers with the depressed wages result going in the global corporate pockets. It was low wage driven at the onset however now it has become commensurate to decent wages being paid.
Get them out and God Bless Trump for doing it! Say goodnight Dick
Sounds more like the Senate has a Cory Booker problem than a particular Senate Rules and function.
That being said I would suggest
1-repeal 17th amendment
2-term limits of 2 terms for senators possibly 3
3-eliminate the filibuster or make them talk till they collapse then vote.
4-eliminate the blue slip for US Attorneys. A lot of good could come from Republican US attorneys in Democratic states and Democratic US Attorneys in Republican states. Neither party is totally clean and republicans investigating republicans and democrats investigating democrats is sort of an oxymoron.
5-Eliminate the Senate, my preference. All 100 of them think they should be president anyway. Let them confabulate on their own dime.
Just regarding 2), California has had term limits for some time. (I voted No, because I think it should be all right to vote for the best person.)
Initially, I think it was 6 years for state assembly and 8 years for state senate; then it was changed to a combined limit of 12 years. The argument for the change was to maintain and increase institutional knowledge.
So we have experience with term limits and I don’t think they solve the problem like you think. (Just by the way, some state legislators wind up circulating back to county supervisor, and some Ca counties are bigger than some states.)
GEB just learned a few weeks ago what a blue slip was. Now he can’t stop throwing it out from his armchair sermons/
“1-repeal 17th amendment”
Yes. No question about it.
“2-term limits of 2 terms for senators possibly 3”
Again, yes.
“3-eliminate the filibuster or make them talk till they collapse then vote.”
No. Ending the filibuster would be terrible. The reason being is that while eliminating the filibuster might seem to be a good thing for the current majority party in power (which is currently the Republicans) and allowing them to enact legislation they like. Once that party (Republicans) have become the minority party, the opposition party (Democrats) will more likely enact legislation and the Republicans oppose to.
Besides, the filibuster allow there to be debates on whatever legislation is trying to be enacted. Unfortunately, filibusters seem to be used for anything but for debating and that shouldn’t be the case. Instead, change the filibuster rules that only a filibuster can be use to debate the subject of the legislation waiting to be enacted or fail to pass. Nothing more, nothing less.
Currently, to end a filibuster, a supermajority is needed. Instead, maybe make it so that a simple majority is require to end a filibuster. Secondly, you will giving the Democrats too much power as they always wanted to end it whenever they were in control. And giving the Democrats too much power is never a good thing.
“4-eliminate the blue slip for US Attorneys. A lot of good could come from Republican US attorneys in Democratic states and Democratic US Attorneys in Republican states. Neither party is totally clean and republicans investigating republicans and democrats investigating democrats is sort of an oxymoron.”
I have no problem with that. Just seem to be common sense.
“5-Eliminate the Senate, my preference. All 100 of them think they should be president anyway. Let them confabulate on their own dime.”
If we can get the Seventeenth Amendment repeal, then it would be pointless to abolish the Senate.
Agree with all of that. And, somewhere in the process of implementing those reforms, PLEASE include some rule to eliminate, or at least strongly discourage, omnibus legislation…
*. Consider Booker’s sweat and DJT has only begun. Consider BOs sweat after DJT won the 1st term and directions Gabbard has uncovered implicating him. Beware of Clobachar’s seeming willingness to be reasonable. Consider the deflection tactics of the Epstein OLD case.
DJT has only begun.
The Senate lost its Madisonian design when the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913 to have direct election of senators by the voters of each state. That is what started moving it in a “populist, impulsive” direction. Except that is only for show, since the six-year terms allow senators to act like they represent their states and voters only when they have an actual election coming up. If they had two-year terms, that might be less the case.
Then the Senate adopted cloture in 1917, which in the 1970s simply morphed into a super-majority rule for most legislation. The last true filibusters, such as people are familiar with from “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”, hasn’t actually happened since the 1970s. They simply call it a filibuster when that super-majority rule is invoked, which is automatic for almost everything and no one actually takes to the floor to do anything remotely like filibustering.
There are a lot of problems with the Senate and it’s rules, but it is not because the original design has somehow been violated or moved away from. The original design simply no longer exists. And no Senator in either party wants to correct it.
A Cincinnati councilwoman says she is glad the black mob did a beatdown of the white couple.
“I am glad for it.”
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1950583626837414055
Black Fatigue is becoming a thing and statements like this only intensify it.
Which YouTube video gets more views? Which will get more attention on legacy, MSM news?
-A bear sniffing at, rejecting, and walking away from chocolate offered by a tourist?
– or a bear chasing the tourist, then standing on his hind legs and growling?
Corey Booker knows the answer. Do you?
Lin,
Not sure what your point is, though you usually have a good one.
Random and savage attacks by blacks on whites are common. They also attack other blacks.
When I see an article about a brawl at a Waffle House or a kindergarten graduation (actual story) I usually think valedictorians and I am seldom disappointed.
What is unusual is a random attack by an Asian, Hispanic or white.
Prejudice? Possibly. More like postjudice. The statistics tell the same story. More than 54% of ALL murders in the US are committed by blacks, about 14% of the population though they seem much more in place than that.
Black communities are ravaged by crime. Prominent blacks who make a lucrative career out of racism almost always move into predominantly white neighborhoods. I think a young black man had a better chance of surviving to old age under slavery than he does living in black communities in Chicago or Detroit today.
Senator Moynihan tried to warn of societal rot in black communities but he was ignored.
Meanwhile, it seems like the corporate media is doing it’s best to stir up interracial hatred which has results like we saw in Minneapolis.
Young: Hi there, no, -not meant for people to read more into it than what I said, –which was simply calling attention to the power of hyperbolic and histrionic gesturing over mere oratory–(something Booker seems to have a propensity for). No more, no less, in my comment!
(p.s. your last sentence is so true. And Congressional elections are not improving the mix. Think Jasmine Crockett, etc. (and MTG)
As I was saying:
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1950668135045955614
I saw this publicized on some blog or other this morning, and, judging from the screen names (a somewhat risky proposition, I am aware), a large fraction of the commenters trashing the councilwoman and the police chief for their terrible responses to this incident were black. I think that the time may be coming soon when such officials are going to be quite surprised that they have been sacked (or worse) by the very people to whom they believe they are successfully pandering.
What in the world did you think was going to happen when “Crazy Abe” unconstitutionally ignored, violated, and nullified existing immigration law and failed to deport illegal aliens who could not be admitted to become citizens?
What in the world did you think was going to happen when “Crazy Abe” unconstitutionally installed an inimical 4-million-man foreign standing army on U.S. soil?
What in the world did you think was going to happen when “Crazy Abe” unconstitutionally nullified American statutory and fundamental law by unconstitutional force of arms, ending American freedom after only 71 years?
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“WE THE PEOPLE of the United States…SECURE the Blessings of Liberty TO OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY….”
– Preamble
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802 [four iterations for maximal clarity]
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
^^^^OT TROLL
“That dudn’t make any sense.”
– George W. Bush
Corey would never have been elected to the Senate if the 17th Amendment didn’t exist.
PROOFREADER: title should be Decline **of** not Decline **the**
The dignity of the U.S. Senate is rapidly approaching the dignity often found in Zimbabwe.
AFRICAN COMMUNISTS IN AMERICA:
– OMAR FATEH, Somalian Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate and Minnesota State Senator
– ZOHRAN MAMDANI, Ugandan New York City Mayoral Candidate
– BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SR., Kenyan-Citizen Father of Barack Hussein Obama, Former Ineligible U.S. President
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“OBAMA’S TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY OF FOREIGN ALLEGIANCES”
NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barack Hussein Obama was prohibited by John Jay, George Washington, the Framers, and the Constitution from becoming the president due to his foreign allegiances, which were bestowed by his socialist-cum-communist, anti-Colonialist, anti-American, anti-British, African-citizen father, author of his 1965 article “Problems Facing Our Socialism” referenced below.
Jay and Washington were in complete agreement that “the Command in chief of the american army shall not be given to, nor devolved on, any but a natural born Citizen.” In The Law of Nations, Vattel’s definition of “natural born citizen” required parents (i.e. plural) and/or a father who were citizens.
Obama conducted a vast left-wing conspiracy, an attempted coup, against President Donald J. Trump.
Obama was never eligible for the presidency due to his communist allegiances, which comprised his “Dreams From My Father.”
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John Jay to George Washington, 25 July 1787
From John Jay
New York 25 July 1787
Dear Sir
I was this morning honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 22d Inst: & immediately delivered the Letter it enclosed to Commodore Jones, who being detained by Business, did not go in the french Packet, which sailed Yesterday.
Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise & seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government, and to declare expressly that the Command in chief of the american army shall not be given to, nor devolved on, any but a natural born Citizen.
Mrs Jay is obliged by your attention, and assures You of her perfect Esteem & Regard—with similar Sentiments the most cordial and sincere I remain Dear Sir Your faithful Friend & Servt
John Jay
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Law of Nations
Book 1, Chpt 19
§ 212. Citizens and natives.
The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.
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AI Overview
Barack Obama Sr., in his 1965 article “Problems Facing Our Socialism”, critiqued the Kenyan government’s approach to “African Socialism” outlined in Sessional Paper No. 10
. His main arguments and concerns included:
Lack of Clear Definition: Obama Sr. questioned the meaning of “African Socialism” and whether it was truly distinct from other socialist models or merely a vague political slogan.
Overemphasis on Economic Growth Without Addressing Inequality: He argued that despite Kenya’s economic growth, the government’s policies were not effectively addressing the issues of poverty, unemployment, and unequal income distribution, particularly the concentration of economic power in the hands of foreign (European and Asian) groups.
Concerns about “Gratuitous Privatization”: Obama Sr. warned about the potential negative consequences of unregulated privatization of productive resources and public goods.
Uneven Regional Development: He also highlighted the problem of uneven development across different regions of Kenya.
Ineffectiveness of Attempts to Lure People Back to Rural Areas: He recognized the futility of government attempts to encourage people to return to rural areas when they couldn’t make a living from the land they possessed.
In essence, Obama Sr.’s critique called for a more nuanced and effective approach to development that prioritized social justice and addressed the deep-seated inequalities that persisted in Kenya after independence. His arguments were considered quite perceptive and ahead of their time, anticipating many of the challenges that Kenya would face in the years to come.
^^^OT unless tied to Booker and senate . Troll
Read the original comment @ July 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM above, Einstein!
“The dignity of the U.S. Senate is rapidly approaching the dignity often found in Zimbabwe.”
– Mike Sigman
Hey, Stupid, it’s good to be stupid, huh, cuz when you’re stupid, you’re too stupid to know you’re stupid, right, Stupid?
Or in Uganda under Idi Amin. And Booker (probably) doesn’t have syphilis to blame for his insanity…
The poor blighters haven’t had a pay raise since 2009. This is why no intelligent Americans want to do this job.
https://www.senate.gov/senators/SenateSalariesSince1789.htm
-Oddball
Booker performed an Outstanding Example of a fentanyl euphoria and confusion exposing one angry SOB full of childhood trauma underneath…. a miracle his eyes didn’t finish popping out on the floor………. hardly Senatorial Caliber…. Bottom-line: Pity poor NJ!.
This morning when I read this post, there were 2 comments. It sure was pleasant not to have all the back and forth bit*c*hing from a few of the posters. I do not understand why they come to a site and continue to post the things they do. Perhaps it is to try to get people to stop reading, learning and making informed comments, thus shutting down the viewership. Not going to happen for me.