There is a version of Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary hearing that makes for a good afternoon on X. Cory Booker builds toward one of his crescendos, runs past his time, keeps going, and Chuck Grassley — who turns 93 this week — finally asks whether the senator from New Jersey is ready to shut up. The clip is funny. It will be in a campaign ad within the month, probably two of them, aimed in opposite directions.Enjoy it and then be honest about what you watched, because the joke has two targets and conservatives keep pretending it has one.Booker earned every bit of it. This is a man with a long and well-documented relationship with the dramatic gesture — the Spartacus moment at the Kavanaugh hearings, the twenty-five-hour floor speech that wasn’t a filibuster and didn’t stop anything, the sit-in on the Capitol steps that drew a livestream and not much else. He did not come to Tuesday’s hearing to learn anything about the FBI. He came with a monologue, delivered the monologue, and then declined to stop delivering it when the light turned red. Calling the director a mockery was the applause line. That was the whole appointment.