Cory Booker, white supremacist? Bloviation bares his partys shameless playbook

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s dulcet tones pierced the air of Congress’ upper chamber Tuesday night.“Do you know you have just broken the record?” he asked his Garden State counterpart, Cory Booker.“Do you know how proud this caucus is of you? Do you know how proud America is of you?”Schumer’s applause came as the Democratic Party’s official X account hailed Booker for achieving the “longest filibuster” in Senate history.More like a phonybuster: Booker’s 25-hour bloviation didn’t really qualify, because he wasn’t droning on to block a particular piece of legislation.But if the Democrats did think Booker was wielding that procedural tool, what business, exactly, did they have celebrating it — considering their own past crusade to destroy it?Just months ago, much of Schumer’s proud caucus and other top Democrats stood united behind a brazen lie as part of an effort to do away with the filibuster and push through their unpopular agenda.As early as July 2020, Barack Obama was calling on the Senate to ditch the “Jim Crow relic.”In 2022, Schumer pressured his colleagues to do just that, while accusing the GOP of trying to implement state-level “voter suppression laws.”And in 2024, when he naively believed that Democrats might sweep the upcoming federal elections, Schumer started fantasizing again about eliminating the venerable Senate rule allowing a minority of members to halt the body’s business.The media, as a matter of course, dutifully repeated the partisan talking point.Vox offered to “explain” the legislative hurdle’s “racist history.”The Associated Press reported that its “racist past” was fueling “arguments for its end.”The Atlantic went so far as to call the filibuster “a monument to White supremacy.”That hasn’t kept Senate Democrats from wielding the filibuster to block legislation, including a bill barring trans athletes from women’s sports, now that Donald Trump is back in the Whit...