Save the SAVE Act: Sunset the Filibuster
The U.S. House has handed Senate Republicans yet another reason to bury the beloved, albeit obsolete, filibuster. The House, on Feb. 11, passed the SAVE America Act. It would give this country’s too-often dirty elections the power-washing that they desperately need. Before every federal election, it would make states scrub their rolls of duplicate registrations and non-resident, relocated, deceased, or otherwise ineligible voters.
Currently registered voters would be unaffected, but new ones must prove US citizenship. And everyone must present a photo ID to vote. Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York calls this “Jim Crow 2.0.” (RELATED: The SAVE Act: Why Are Senate Republicans Dithering?)
Disgusting!
How dare Schumer trivialize the pain of black Americans who faced segregated “but equal” bathrooms, whites-only bus benches, and noose-filled trees? When blacks show photo ID at airports today, is that Jim Crow 747?
And shame on Schumer for whitewashing this key detail — during Black History Month, no less: The Jim Crow laws that tormented blacks between the 1870s and 1964 were written, enacted, and enforced by Democrats.
According to Pew Research, 76 percent of blacks and 82 percent of Hispanics spurn Schumer’s racial slurs and historical revisionism. Instead, they favor photo ID. So do 83 percent of Americans, 95 percent of Republicans, and even 71 percent of Democrats. (RELATED: Save the SAVE Act: A Necessary Solution to a Real Problem)
“A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country,” said CNN analyst Harry Enten. “It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree.”
Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman notwithstanding, Senate Democrats sooner would gargle molten glass than mandate photo ID. They hate anything that hinders vote fraud, which they have mastered.
— Skeptical Stoic (@StoicSkeptic) February 8, 2026
To secure honest elections at the midterms and beyond, Republicans must sunset the filibuster — like putting a beautiful-but-decrepit family Labrador to sleep.
Republicans who cherish the filibuster as an embankment against runaway government would be right — if the Senate still included rational Democrats such as Louisiana’s John Breaux, Nebraska’s Bob Kerrey, Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman, New York’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Georgia’s Sam Nunn. While in control, they preserved the filibuster, knowing that Republicans would do likewise, once they took charge. (RELATED: The Filibuster Must Be Euthanized Now)
Reasonable Democrats vanished with the dot-matrix printer.
Alas, Bill Clinton’s favorite Fleetwood Mac song is correct: “Yesterday’s gone.” The 1990s and early 2000s are over. Reasonable Democrats vanished with the dot-matrix printer.
This is not your parents’ Democrat Party. Today’s neo-Marxists demolished the southern border. They begged at least 8.7 million illegal aliens to invade America and then showered them with freebies. Contemporary Democrats flatten tires and smash windows to prevent ICE from deporting convicted illegal-alien drunk drivers, armed robbers, gang members, child rapists, multiple murderers, and terrorists.
Relentless far-Left Democrats tried to throw Donald J. Trump off the 2024 ballot and into prison. They sicced the FBI on Latin-Mass Catholics and accused parents of “domestic terrorism” when they complained to school boards about grade-school gendermania. Modern Democrats love puberty blockers, steer “females” with penises into women’s locker rooms, cheer when girls amputate their breasts, and snore when fraudsters steal $14 million from Minnesota’s autistic children.
Some 2020s Democrats even did cartwheels after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Others campaigned with and many more elected Jay Jones as attorney general of Virginia. Never mind that he texted fantasies about firing “two bullets to the head” of GOP lawmaker Todd Gilbert as his wife, Jennifer, watched their two young children die in her arms.
Too many Senate Republicans naively believe that these Hamas-hugging degenerates would let this parliamentary procedure derail their agenda. Indeed, 46 of 48 Democrats already voted on January 19, 2022, to junk the filibuster. Former Democrat senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and unanimous Republicans saved it. The next such Democrat-led vote almost certainly will kill it.
A filibuster-free Democrat Senate and House would make Republican nightmares come true:
- Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico would become states. And why not the U.S. Virgin Islands and perhaps other territories? Four, six, or even more Democrats would join the Senate, likely for good. Ditto their House counterparts.
- Democrats would swell the Supreme Court and clog it with Leftist justices.
- Abortion: Anytime, anywhere, and fully funded by taxpayers.
- Fifteen to 20 million illegal aliens and “Dreamers” would score amnesty, citizenship, and voter-registration cards.
- “Temporary” COVID-era election practices — mass-mail-in ballots, drop boxes, ballot harvesting, early voting, same-day registration, late ballot deliveries, etc. — would become permanent. Photo ID? Dream on!
Amid these insurmountable challenges, Republicans could wave goodbye to the presidency, Congress, and the Court. The USA would become a workers’ paradise sooner than Republicans could say,“Das Kapital.” That America would make Gavin Newsom’s California resemble Javier Milei’s Argentina.
The power to bury the filibuster is like a loaded Glock resting on a table. Soft-headed Republicans won’t touch it. They innocently reckon that if today’s Democrats captured the Senate, they would mirror their non-crazy predecessors and leave the Glock alone.
As if.
Republicans must overcome their nostalgia for yesterday’s filibuster — when Democrats were liberals, not Jacobins. GOP senators need to grab that Glock first, retire the filibuster, and then enact America First reforms, while Republicans still can: Their precarious House majority is just a stroke, sex scandal, or special-election upset from annihilation.
Filibuster-free Republicans quickly should adopt:
- The SAVE America Act
- A limited-government cure for ObamaCare
- Legislation to turn Trump’s executive orders into statutes
- Census rules that count only citizens for reapportionment
- A 10 percent flat tax
- As much conservative legislation as Trump can sign
Fragile Republicans argue that if Democrats won a post-filibuster Senate, they would govern like unleashed Rottweilers. But if Republicans stay tethered to the filibuster, the next Democrat Senate will trash it before lunch on Day One, anyway. Unilateral disarmament ultimately will buy the GOP nothing but a warm, runny feeling.
The filibuster served a noble purpose, but Republicans cannot afford to struggle under it now, only to suffer slings and arrows the moment Democrat radicals reign without its restraints.
Republicans immediately should heed what British musician Joe Jackson once sang: “When you’ve got power, then you use it for a while.”
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Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.