Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is promising that if Harris is elected president and the numbers in the House and Senate are favorable, they will eliminate the Senate filibuster for a singular altruistic purpose — to enshrine Roe v. Wade as the law of the land. They ignore polling that suggests there are other issues at the top of Americans’ daily concerns.
The putative Harris administration would try again to eliminate the filibuster just one more time to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., blocked that effort in 2021 but will not be in office in 2025. And then, depending on their whim, they might also make Puerto Rico a state. Then the District of Columbia. Then they would for sure call it quits and go back to the 60-vote rule. Well, maybe they would first take a look at passing single payer healthcare and, of course, use 51 votes to pass a noncontroversial wealth tax, stack the Supreme Court under the guise of judicial reform, gut the Second Amendment, pass broad amnesty or grant citizenship for more than 15 million people who they illegally welcomed to the country. But that’s probably it. Absolute normalcy after that.
No serious person who understands the Senate filibuster or the term “gridlock” could think for one second that a Democrat president, House, and Senate would exercise sufficient restraint to pull up short of funding their most radical pet projects and passing legislation they know
