Strategy

By Miss Kubelik

Yes, the vote to codify Roe v. Wade went down in the Senate today. But that was the point.

Every Republican is on the record: A zygote has more rights than a living, breathing American woman. In fact, Chuck Schumer should keep at it: Bring the Women's Health Protection Act back to the floor again and again. Make them vote on it countless times until November 8.

And then there's Joe Manchin. We cats are seeing lots of laughable tweets declaring that the Democrats must primary him. Forget about it.

There is no other kind of Democrat who could win a Senate seat in West Virginia now. The state is hopeless. And although sometimes Joe Manchin seems hopeless too, these tweeps need to remember that if he were not a Democrat, we would not have the Senate.

Which means that Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn't be breaking any 50-50 ties — like she did on Alvaro Bedoya's nomination to the Federal Trade Commission. (Sound obscure? It isn't. It gives Democrats a majority on the FTC so they can go after the oil companies on price gouging, which is pretty relevant to Americans' lives right now.) And like Harris did on Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.

Want to have to not worry about Joe Manchin? Elect more Democratic Senators this year: Tim Ryan in Ohio, John Fetterman or Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania, Val Demings in Florida, and whoever wins the nomination to run against that fool Ron Johnson in Wisconsin — just to name a few. And of course keep Senators Warnock and Kelly. We cats PURR.