Oh No, Ohio!

Yesterday the Ohio House of Unrepresentative Republicans easily passed two odious piece-of-shit bills -- a "stand your ground" gun law (a.k.a. make the dead black man you killed prove he wasn't a threat), and a "heartbeat" bill which would effectively ban all abortions in Ohio.  Both bills now move on to the Republican-dominated Ohio Senate, where both are expected to pass.  Public opinion does not support either one.

Yet it looks like they'll make it to Gov. Kasich's desk.  He has promised to veto both.  He vetoed a previous heartbeat bill.  (I still don't like him, but Kasich does the occasional decent thing.)

The question is, will the gerrymandered, jury-rigged GOP press its unfair advantage and vote to overturn the lame-duck governor's veto in the current legislative session?

If they do, they must wrap it all up by December 31st or they'd need to do it all over again in the next session, where Mini-Mike DeWine awaits as the next Guv.  DeWine campaigned on a promise to sign the clearly unconstitutional heartbeat bill.  (What an awful thing to promise, especially for an AG.)

"Oh no, Ohio!"

Constitutionality is a non-issue for Ohio's Konservative Krowd.  They literally don't care.  Their cynical game plan is to pass as much wretched right-wing legislation as possible, and make the other side spend time and money suing to unwind all the damage done.  It's a nefarious mindset, and I despair for the future of my state.

I'll close with a sentence from a Columbus letter-writer, whose words appeared in today's Dispatch:

"Ohio is mired in a strange brew of ultraconservative, antiprogressive, Trumpian foolishness."