{"id":1623,"date":"2007-11-14T06:56:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2007-11-14T06:56:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T11:56:02","slug":"mulligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"Mulligan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elliot Spitzer gundecks his plan to give drivers’ licenses to illegals:<\/a><\/p>\n

The governor is due to meet Wednesday morning with New York’s congressional delegation, many of whom openly oppose the program. Debate over the issue also has spilled into New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s<\/span> presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

The governor’s office signaled to New York lawmakers Tuesday that Spitzer will say at the meeting that he is shelving the plan and that immigration is a federal issue to be handled by Washington, according to congressional aides who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While plan advocates rationalized it by claiming it would make the roads safer, that was bit of a red herring – think how much safer we’d be with millions of criminals <\/em>off the road in the first place? – the real problem was the disingenuity of the plan’s supporters, who either didn’t know <\/em>about the loopholes the plan offered to illegals, or didn’t care.<\/p>\n

Political incompetence or tone-deafness on their part doesn’t constitute and emergency on ours.<\/p>\n

Last month, Spitzer sought to salvage the license effort by striking a deal with the Department of Homeland Security<\/span> to create three distinct types of state driver’s licenses: one “enhanced” that will be as secure as a passport; a second-tier license good for boarding airplanes; and a third marked not valid for federal purposes that would be available to illegal immigrants and others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How about one that is stamped “CRIMINAL”?<\/p>\n

Clinton has been criticized by her Democratic and Republican rivals for her noncommittal answers on the subject. She has said she sympathizes with governors like Spitzer who are forced to confront the issue of immigration because the federal government has not enacted immigration reform. She has not taken a position on the actual plan offered by Spitzer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because then all the nasty men would be mean to her?<\/p>\n

They do have a point; the government – Congress as well as the President – has been shamefully craven on immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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