{"id":1550115,"date":"2025-07-31T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1550115"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:20:00","slug":"the-worlds-most-dysfunctional-body-cory-booker-captures-the-decline-of-the-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-worlds-most-dysfunctional-body-cory-booker-captures-the-decline-of-the-us-senate\/1550115\/","title":{"rendered":"The World’s Most Dysfunctional Body? Cory Booker Captures The Decline Of The US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World’s Most Dysfunctional Body? Cory Booker Captures The Decline Of The US Senate<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

When President James Buchanan declared that the United States Senate is the \u201cworld\u2019s greatest deliberative body,\u201d he clearly had not envisioned Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Behind the \u201cI am Spartacus<\/a>\u201d theatrics is a more troubling trend in the United States Senate as it devolves into a more populist, impulsive institution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In 1872, Moncure Daniel Conway published an account of a meeting between Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Jefferson questioned Washington\u2019s support for the creation of a second or upper house in the form of the Senate. Washington asked:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy\u2026did you just now pour that coffee into your saucer, before drinking?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTo cool it,\u201d answered Jefferson, \u201cmy throat is not made of brass.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEven so,\u201d rejoined Washington, \u201cwe pour our legislation into the\u00a0senatorial saucer to cool it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

These days, it seems like legislation goes to the Senate to heat up.<\/p>\n

The Senate is losing its constitutional and cultural moorings as the cooling saucer for our heated politics. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, it is becoming more like . . . well . . . the house.<\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That has changed with the 24-hour media-saturated political environment. It has changed in this\u00a0age of rage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cue Corey Booker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Putting the claims of \u201csecret police\u201d aside, and,\u00a0once again<\/a>, the imminent collapse of democracy, Booker was immediately set upon by his colleagues after he moved to block the bipartisan bill<\/strong> by fellow Democratic Sens.\u00a0Catherine Cortez Masto\u00a0<\/a>(Nev.) and\u00a0Amy Klobuchar\u00a0<\/a>(Minn.).<\/p>\n

Klobuchar effectively accused Booker of grandstanding and hypocrisy:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI will note that Sen. Booker objected to my police reauthorization bill, the cops funding, the\u00a0Clinton\u00a0<\/a>cops funding, long before\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0<\/a>came into office. So this is not just about this. This is a long dispute over this type of funding.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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 \u201cI can\u2019t help it if someone couldn\u2019t change their schedule to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201ccomplicity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Booker is clearly maneuvering for a possible presidential run and seeking to tap into the rage growing on the far left.<\/strong> 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 \u201cestablishment\u201d as Booker and others tack to the left to lead \u201cthe resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Booker just raised the anger ante for Democrats.<\/strong> 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 \u201cpeople\u2019s house.\u201d We do not need two Houses of Representatives. The Senate ideally moderates, not magnifies, the pressures and passions in the political system.<\/p>\n

Booker\u2019s tirades clearly resonates with some on the far left, but it is likely to come at a cost for the institution itself. <\/strong>As tensions build on the Democratic side, Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s quip seems to be coming true in voting for bipartisan legisation: \u201cWhen they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer \u2018Present\u2019 or \u2018Not guilty.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 07\/31\/2025 – 11:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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