If the Senate follows suit, and I've no reason to believe that they won't, I'll be 59 years old when the Voting Rights Act expires. (That's assuming victimhood becomes a political loser sometime in the next 25 years.)

A person born when the Act was first passed in 1965 will be 66 years old.

Every Senator who voted against the original act will probably be pushing up daisies.

Sandra Day O'Connor's 25-year sunset on the need for affirmative action preferences will have finally ended.

Yet we continue to require ballots and other voting materials in many jurisdictions to be printed in a plethora of languages? Command of English is required for citizenship, yet what does it say about how well those requirements are adhered to when you can only get four Democrats -- and you lose 44 Republicans -- to vote for English-only ballots?

What a waste of money.

Maybe someday politicians will come to the realization that much has changed since the 1960s.