Moron Spitzer Forges Ahead With Licenses for Illegals

Plummeting in the polls and mired in scandal, idiotic New York Democrat Governor Eliot Spitzer continues to push forward with the insane plan to give driver's licences to illegal aliens, and the idea is being slammed by families of 9/11 victims.

Angry relatives of 9/11 victims yesterday fumed that Gov. Spitzer's decision to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses provides a dangerous new tool for terrorists.

"When the next attack comes, I will hold [Spitzer] culpable for the murders," said Joan Molinaro, who lost her firefighter son on 9/11.

"It better not be one of my daughters or one of my grandchildren," she told a legislative hearing held by Republican assemblymen.

Under Spitzer's directive, the state will start issuing licenses later this year to people who don't have Social Security cards.

The change will begin in December, but state lawmakers opposed to the plan have said they may sue to try stop it or pass legislation creating restrictions.

"The governor seems to have lost his mind and wants to give in to terrorists," Peter Gadiel, whose son James was on the 103rd floor of the trade center's north tower when he died, told the legislators.

"Every illegal is a person whose true identity and possible history of violence and terrorism is unknown. Thus, any illegal may be a terrorist," said Gadiel, founder of the group 9/11 Families for a Secure America.

Molinaro said driver's licenses enabled al Qaeda terrorists to gain access to the jets they used to attack America on 9/11.

"I'm just a mother. I lost my son on 9/11, and I needed answers," she said. "My answer came that a small piece of paper that gives privileges to drive in the country was the weapon that was used to hijack planes and kill 3,000 Americans."

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination, told the legislators that the issue goes beyond New York, because Empire State licenses would be recognized in other states.

"I'm here today because the governor's proposals, if implemented, will affect not only the citizens of New York, but the citizens of all 50 states," he said.

"It also is an affront to the Congress of the United States, because he has declared war on the Real ID Act," Tancredo said, referring to the legislation passed in 2005 that set national standards for state driver's licenses.

"He is basically thumbing his nose at the universal acknowledgement of the need for more secure ID documents."

Faced with near universal condemnation of this idiocy, the moron does what most Democrats do: attacks Republicans.

As opposition mounts to his plan to allow illegal immigrants to get New York driver's licenses, Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, said Republicans are utilizing "politics of fear" and blasted them for their "selfishness."

Meanwhile, a man at the center of the spat, Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola, said in a letter to state Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner David Swarts he would not accept the scanning device at his DMV branch.

The scanners are needed to process passports, which will be an acceptable form of identification under Spitzer's plan, but Merola recommended the state "save the postage."

"They think if they get it in the door we will start doing it, so I am not even going to let it in the door," said a fired up Merola. "If they send the scanner I will not accept it, so they may as well keep it and save the postage."
Merola said the present system of granting temporary licenses, enacted by Spitzer's predecessor Gov. George Pataki, is a better way to go about things because it is clearly identified as temporary and the holder more often than not is not a documented U.S. citizen.

"If the guy is going to park in the garage under the plaza, at least let the police know who he is," he said. "The way the governor wants to do it nobody would know. You would be mixing the good guys with the bad guys."

Spitzer claims the plan would improve public security by creating records for more immigrants and add what he calls anti-fraud measures to the process. The Democrat blasted Republicans.

"What has happened is that the politics of fear and selfishness has replaces the politics of common sense and responsibility," Spitzer said at Fordham University, Tuesday. "We are witnessing knee-jerk reactions to sound policies that have no business being politicized or polluted by fear-mongering rhetoric."

UPDATE: Allahpundit has more on this travesty.