Thursday June 30, 2022; 9:56 AM EDT
- The purpose for creating a gerrymandered supermajority in the Indiana Statehouse is so the GOP doesn’t have to listen to half the Hoosiers. Previously, I had thought that this half was meant to be the Democrats, but with a lightning fast special session coming up where GOP legislators will likely end or greatly reduce the already narrow options for abortion in our state, I realize that the half of the state’s voters that the GOP doesn’t want to listen to could just as easily be Hoosier women. At certain times, like now, it probably is.#
- People who follow the news from the Statehouse will have noticed that GOP members occasionally retreat into a closed-door conference and hammer out a solution to some problem or another, and then emerge with the solution they will vote for and pass. No need to consult with ANY Democrats, thanks to the gerrymandered supermajority in both chambers there, no need to hold hearings in front of the media, no need to answer questions from the media, no need to address citizens groups. No need for democratic process.#
- Essentially this:#
- Supermajority holds a Superfast Session because they’d be Super-Annoyed by having to attend to any of the constraints of actual, real, functioning democracy.#
- So: among the people GOP legislators in Indiana may not want to deal with are women. In the upcoming very brief special we'll see how true that is. The GOP members may demonstrate by the way they run the special session that they actually do like women best when women, as Archie Bunker used to say, stifle themselves.#