What Other Failed Initiatives Are They Going to Waste Time On?

The Democrats, who campaigned that they were going to tackle the really important stuff, are trying to revive the Equal Rights Amendment.

This dinosaur from the early 1970s stalled three states short of ratification in 1982. This was after Congress had illegally extended the deadline.

The ERA was the crown jewel of feminist politics, but it got derailed when Phyllis Schlafly almost single-handedly exposed some of the less palatable consequences of the amendment (such as including women in the military draft and unisex bathrooms).

I wrote about this subject last year, when the idea of resurrecting the ERA was first being discussed.

I'm still not necessarily opposed to it, mainly because I dislike intensely the neither-fish-nor-fowl status of women under constitutional law. On the other hand, there are some arguments against the ERA that make sense, such as the theory that it will justify state funding of abortion or same sex marriages. Whether these liabilities can be circumvented with other law remains to be seen, but I am looking forward to the debate.