It's Official: Spitzer Totally Clueless, Receives Kiss of Death Endorsement

Despite overwhelming opposition, clueless New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is determined at any cost to hand out driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

If you needed another reason to know this is completely insane, all you need to know is who endorsed the idea today.

Richard A. Clarke, the former counterterrorism adviser to three presidents, on Friday endorsed Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to make it easier for illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses.

"States should act to register immigrants, legal and illegal, who use our roadways as New York is doing," Clarke said in a statement to be delivered in a morning news conference with Spitzer in New York City.

"From a law enforcement and security perspective, it is far preferable for the state to know who is living in it and driving on its roads, and to have their photograph and their address on file than to have large numbers of people living in our cities whose identity is totally unknown to the government," said Clarke, who advised presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

UPDATE: Spitzer gets hammered by the NY Post editorial. Seems Clarke's endorsement -- naturally -- is worthless.

Gov. Spitzer, in a deep hole over his plan to give drivers' licenses to ille gal immigrants, won't stop digging.

He spoke at NYU's Center for Law and Security yesterday to underscore the plan's security bells-and-whistles in a bid to reassure an astonishingly skeptical public. (A scant 22 percent of New Yorkers approve of the scheme, according to a recent poll.)

He trumpeted an endorsement of the plan from Richard Clarke, a counter-terrorism czar in both the Clinton and Bush White Houses.

Bringing in Clarke as a supporter of the plan was an odd choice, to say the least.

For one thing, despite heading up the nation's anti-terrorism effort from 1998, Clarke failed to foresee 9/11. Maybe nobody could have, but the attack effectively revoked Clarke's security-expert credentials.

Yesterday, though, Spitzer distributed this statement from Clarke: "[States] should act to register immigrants, legal and illegal, who use our roadways as New York is doing. From a law-enforcement and security perspective, it is far preferable for the state to know who is living in it and driving on its roads."

A clear endorsement of the Spitzer plan, right?

Read on.

Previously: Spitzer in Freefall

Moron Spitzer Forges Ahead With Licenses for Illegals

Spitzer to Let Illegals Get Driver's Licenses