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Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law

Posted by kdawson on from the square-root-of-minus-identity dept.

The Washington Post is running a story on the Obama Administration's attempt to get a scaled-back version of Bush's Real ID program passed and implemented. We've been discussing the Real ID program from its earliest days up through the states' resistance to its "unfunded mandate." "Yielding to a rebellion by states that refused to pay for it, the Obama administration is moving to scale back a federal law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that was designed to tighten security requirements for driver's licenses... Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants to repeal and replace the controversial, $4 billion domestic security initiative known as Real ID... The new proposal, called Pass ID, would be cheaper, less rigorous, and partly funded by federal grants, according to draft legislation that Napolitano's Senate allies plan to introduce as early as tomorrow. ...the Bush administration struggled to implement the 2005 [Real ID] law, delaying the program repeatedly as states called it an unfunded mandate and privacy advocates warned it would create a de facto national ID."

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  1. Impeach obama and the democrats! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Impeach LORD, GOD, the "INFALIBLE", obama!!!!!!!

    impeach obama - impeach b.o.!!!!!!!!

    Impeach the democrats!!!!!

    Remove the CZARS - they have no congressional over-sight!!!!!!!

    Reverse all bills passed since the innaguration!!!!!

    NO MORE BAIL-OUTS!!!!!!

    NO MORE NATAIOALIZED BUSINESSES!!!!! GOVERNMENT PROVES THAT GOVERNMENT RUN ORGANIZATIONS ARE A FAILURE!!!!

    NO GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE!!!!!

    DEPORT THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRINTS / ALIENS!!!!

    PAY DOWN THE DEFICIT ---NOW---!!!!! IT HAS GRON MORE UNDER THE THUMB OF b.o. THAN ANY OTHER ADMINISTRATION!!!

    NO LIBERALS!!!!!!

    NO PROGRESSIVES!!!!

    NO SOCIALISTS!!!!!!

    NO FACISISTS!!!!!

  2. Afro-American Racism Against Whites and Asians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    During the election, about 95% of African-Americans voted for Barack Hussein Obama due solely to the color of his skin. See the exit-polling data by CNN.

    Note the voting pattern of Hispanics, Asian-Americans, etc. These non-Black minorities serve as a measurement of African-American racism against non-Blacks. Neither Barack Hussein Obama nor John McCain is a non-Black minority. So, Hispanics and Asian-Americans used only non-racial criteria in selecting a candidate and, hence, serve as the reference by which we detect a racist voting pattern. Only about 65% of Hispanics and Asian-Americans supported Obama. In other words, a maximum of 65% support by any ethnic or racial group for either McCain or Obama is not racist and, hence, is acceptable.

    If African-Americans were not racist, then at most 65% of them would have supported Obama. At that level of support, McCain would have won the presidential race.

    At this point, African-American supremacists (and apologists) claim that African-Americans voted for Obama because he (1) is a member of the Democratic party and (2) supports its ideals. That claim is an outright lie. Look at the exit-polling data for the Democratic primaries. Consider the case of North Carolina. Again, about 95% of African-Americans voted for him and against Hillary Clinton. Both Clinton and Obama are Democrats, and their official political positions on the campaign trail were nearly identical. Yet, 95% of African-Americans voted for Obama and against Hillary Clinton. Why? African-Americans supported Obama due solely to the color of his skin.

    Here is the bottom line. Barack Hussein Obama does not represent mainstream America. He won the election due to the racist voting pattern exhibited by African-Americans.

    African-Americans have established that expressing "racial pride" by voting on the basis of skin color is 100% acceptable. Neither the "Wall Street Journal" nor the "New York Times" complained about this racist behavior. Therefore, in future elections, please feel free to express your racial pride by voting on the basis of skin color. Feel free to vote for the non-Black candidates and against the Black candidates if you are not African-American. You need not defend your actions in any way. Voting on the basis of skin is quite acceptable by the standards of today's moral values.

  3. Re:DMV by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder if Obama would have trouble getting a California driver's license since the state he was born in (Hawaii) only releases copies of birth certificates.

  4. Re:It will not stop terrorism by crhylove · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nor would it have stopped Dick Cheney from carrying out 9/11.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8182697765360042032

    Please respond with SCIENCE!!

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  5. 9/11 was an inside job. by crhylove · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Despite every bit of screaming for the US to enter further into fascism, including the REAL ID, the real scientific facts are indisputable:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8182697765360042032

    Do your homework. Do at least a small modicum of research.

    Figure out HOW and WHY giant steel building fall down.

    9/11 was an inside job! Fight fascism at every point, including REAL ID!!!!

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