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   U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema — remember her? — rose from the (political)   
   dead on Tuesday to trash Kamala Harris’ call to scrap the filibuster in   
   order to protect abortion rights.   
      
   “To state the supremely obvious, eliminating the filibuster to codify   
   Roe v Wade also enables a future Congress to ban all abortion   
   nationwide,” Sinema said in a social media post. “What an absolutely   
   terrible, shortsighted idea.”   
      
   It didn’t take long for the liberal mob to sprint to the knife drawer.   
      
   “Every once in a while the routinely insufferable Kyrsten Sinema   
   resurfaces to beg for attention and remind us that she is a spectacular   
   disappointment,” wrote one, in a post to X, formerly Twitter.   
      
   “If Sinema and Manchin hadn’t stuck to the filibuster rule a couple of   
   years ago, we’d already have abortion rights protection nationwide and   
   several dead women would still be alive,” wrote another, among the   
   thousands who took to X to draw and quarter Arizona’s lame-duck   
   senator.   
      
   Democrats once wanted to keep the filibuster   
   Actually, if the Senate hadn’t already chipped away at the filibuster,   
   Roe v. Wade likely would still be the law of the land.   
      
   Sinema has long been Public Enemy No. 1 among Arizona Democrats, both   
   for her refusal to ditch the filibuster to clear the way for a voting   
   rights bill in 2022 and for her affinity for Wall Street bigwigs and   
   pharmaceutical giants.   
      
   But it’s worth pointing out that Democrats were not always hot to   
   eliminate the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes rather than a   
   simple 51-vote majority to pass most legislation.   
      
   In 2017, when Donald Trump was president and Republicans controlled the   
   Senate, 31 Democratic senators joined with Republicans to sign a letter   
   calling for the Senate to preserve the filibuster. Among them was then-   
   Sen. Kamala Harris.   
      
   It’s also worth pointing out a decision four years earlier, when Barack   
   Obama was president and Democrats controlled the Senate, that set us on   
   the path to our present plight, when women can be denied an abortion.   
      
   They, not the GOP, voted for the 'nuclear option'   
   In November 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — frustrated   
   by the Republicans’ filibuster of multiple Obama nominees to the U.S.   
   Court of Appeals and the attempted filibuster of his defense secretary   
   — orchestrated a vote to eliminate the 60-vote rule for confirming   
   lower-court judges and executive branch officials.   
      
   The Democrat-controlled Senate voted 52-48 in favor of the change,   
   dubbed the “nuclear option.”   
      
   Then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned the move, calling   
   it a “power grab” by Democrats.   
      
   So, of course, four years later, he did the same thing. By 2017,   
   Republicans controlled the Senate and in April 2017, they voted 52-48   
   to reduce the vote threshold for confirming nominees to the Supreme   
   Court from 60 to 51, clearing the way for Neil Gorsuch.   
      
   Three Trump Supreme Court nominees later, Roe v. Wade is no more.   
      
   Chipping away the filibuster led to a high court that stripped away 50   
   years of protections for women.   
      
   Kari Lake says she'll defend it. Anyone believe her?   
   Fast forward to now, when Democrats are in charge and want to end the   
   filibuster to restore protections for women — protections that were   
   lost due to an end to the filibuster of Supreme Court nominees.   
      
   Meanwhile, Republicans aren’t and don’t.   
      
   Kari Lake certainly doesn’t.   
      
   Sinema's Senate career is dead: But her border bill lives on   
      
   “@KamalaHarris & @RubenGallego have teamed up to DESTROY The Filibuster   
   — which would ELIMINATE all bipartisanship in D.C.,” she wrote on   
   Tuesday. “@KyrstenSinema fought like hell to protect it & I plan on   
   doing the same when I get there.”   
      
   Anybody want to make a bet on how long Lake’s reverence for   
   bipartisanship would last if Trump wins the White House and Republicans   
   control the Senate?   
      
   Anybody at all?   
      
   Sinema is right. Careful what you wish for   
   Recall that Trump was all about eliminating the filibuster when he was   
   president, as Democrats blocked his border initiatives and other grand   
   plans.   
      
   “Republicans in the Senate will NEVER win if they don’t go to a 51 vote   
   majority NOW,” he tweeted in 2017. “They look like fools and are just   
   wasting time ... .”   
      
   Now, anybody want to think about what might happen if Trump wins in   
   November and Republicans retake the Senate? To Obamacare? To   
   immigration law?   
      
   To abortion?   
      
   Sinema is warning Democrats to be careful what they wish for.   
      
   They should put away the knives and listen.   
      
   Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on X   
   (formerly Twitter) at @LaurieRobertsaz and on Threads at   
   @LaurieRobertsaz.   
      
   https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-   
   ed/laurieroberts/2024/09/25/kyrsten-sinema-right-harris-filibuster-   
   abortion/75376090007/   
      
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