Maine Opposing Digital Licenses

What will they have to say after the next 9/11?

Maine lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the nation to demand repeal of a federal law tightening identification requirements for drivers' licenses, a post-September 11 security measure that states say will cost them billions of dollars to administer.

Maine lawmakers passed a resolution urging repeal of the Real ID Act, which would create a national digital identification system by 2008. The lawmakers said it would cost Maine about $185 million, fail to boost security and put people at greater risk of identity theft.

Alright, so vote against it. Good luck getting by without federal aid.

"We cannot be spending millions of state dollars on an initiative that does more harm to our state than good," said Maine's House Majority leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat, in a statement that called it a "massive unfunded federal mandate."

That's rich--a Democrat opposing unfunded mandates.

I guess the irony of Mohammed Atta flying out of Maine on the first leg of his 9/11 journey escapes them.