Posted by
KsReaganite on Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:09:30 PM
When the very conservative legislature of Montana and the equally liberal legislature of Rhode Island both overwhelmingly ask Congress to do the same thing, we are on to something. When law and order conservative and former Georgia sheriff Bob Barr and ultra liberal activist Ralph Nader agree on the same issue, we should take notice. For all these institutions and individuals want Congress to repeal the so-called Real ID Act, which has imposed a heavy burden on states, made regular bureaucracies even more cumbersome, and, most important, mandated federal instrusion into the constitutionally protected domain of the states. No matter who becomes president in 2009, the first order of business should be to forever gut the abominable Orwellian-sounding Real ID Act. That law will go down in history as one of the most despicable ones pushed by this President and lapped up by spineless Congress that can only bark when the President's poll ratings are low. And no, it's not the GOP's fault alone; most liberal Democrats who want to repeal it today in Congress, were gladly co-sponsoring that bill when it came up in 2002 (those days when the president was sitting at 70 % ratings).