Idaho freshman Senator Mary Souza steps up to explain her vote in last week's extraordinary session, what with fear all around her north Idaho district. The Senate voted for the child support legislation 33-2, so it's not as if Sen. Souza needs to explain, or justify her vote, but ok, she wants to. It's a self-serving reach to claim that "fear was evident on both sides, however. The concern that unfounded paranoia of and antipathy toward the federal government might harm a great many children and parents in the state is not quite the same as the fear that accepting the conditions of the Hague Convention might... well, might what, exactly? None of the fearful scenarios had a very tight connection with reality. This is more about projection than accurate assessment, just as "the hammer of the Federal government" is some weird John Birch Society trope that has no place in the Idaho legislature/Fort Boise. More here.