Duane wrote about Corey Booker's marathon filibuster of no particular thing yesterday, and he had a blast doing it. 

Actually, you shouldn't call his speechifying a "marathon" because even not-so-great marathoners generally finish in under 8 hours, and Booker spent three times as long on the Senate floor talking and talking and TALKING. 

The spectacle was so riveting that it was carried live on cable...admittedly, it was CSPAN, which always carries House and Senate floor sessions...but at least it went out to a bunch of homes in America. Reruns of Norman Lear's long-forgotten 1970s sitcom "McGurk: A Dog's Life" might have gotten better ratings, but I am reliably informed that some poor schmuck had to watch the whole thing to harvest clips for X and various news stations. 

Frank Luntz, at least, was totally impressed and apparently found some "ordinary voters" who were as well. He believes that Cory Booker may have made more history than becoming a footnote for setting a record for the ongestf time spent without urinating. 

Luntz: What Cory Booker Did May Have Changed The Course Of Political History, He Is Now The Party's Leaderhttps://t.co/v7NlJREtkB

— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) April 3, 2025

World history changed yesterday, perhaps around 3 a.m. when some insomniac tried to anesthetize himself by watching Booker blather. Booker, unlike his colleagues, DID SOMETHING, unlike his colleagues--and Democrats want something done to stop Trump. 

What exactly Booker did that every other Democrat isn't doing is not quite clear. Every single one of them is screaming like their hair is on fire about Trump and Elon Musk--to the point that they are egging on violent protesters to burn up Teslas and attack older women who are doing nothing more than driving to the grocery store in the "wrong" car. 

But Booker did it LONGER! And as we all know, more is better, even if the more is a big bottle of dirty fry oil that sat too long in the fryer, accumulating all sorts of nasties. 

A new meme has taken off in Republican circles, and I think it is apt. Activist Democrats are theater kids who never quite grew up. They see life as a performance, so nothing warms the cockles of their heart quite like soliloquies and interpretive dances. Seriously, Democrats do interpretive dances to make political points all the time. 

Democrats protest the Trump administration at the Kennedy Center via interpretative dance

😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/liJVs56qy0

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) February 19, 2025

I regret to inform you that the anti-Elon protesters are dancing again pic.twitter.com/O8aLLWMU7u

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 30, 2025

Given this love of performance without consequences, it is quite possible that Booker could rise to the top of the pile in the United States Senate. Perhaps his colleagues and ordinary Democrats prefer the facial expressions and gestures that Booker makes to those of Senator Chuck Schumer. 

Honestly, so do I. Schumer is a terrible actor, while Cory "Spartacus" Booker is actually very good at creating an image of himself as being a President-in-Waiting. He had people convinced that he was something of a superhero saving people, catapulting himself into the Senate with stories of bravery that turned out to be something not quite as impressive as portrayed. 

Think of him as the Steven Seagal of action heroes. Third tier, but the Democrats are so starved for talent that they think Pete Buttigieg is the paragon of intellect and Tim Walz is about as masculine as they can muster. 

I think back to 2019, when all the best commentators thought Kamala Harris was the apex predator of the Democrat presidential field, or 2015, when Donald Trump was a joke candidate in their eyes. 

It's not impossible that Cory Booker could one day be president. Anything is possible. 

But if so, the die was not cast on April Fool's Day in 2025.