Following up on yesterday's post about Montana's refusal to go along with the creation of a national ID card, here's how local Montana media are covering the issue. Via Kos:
Gov. Brian Schweitzer said "no, nope, no way, hell no" Tuesday to national driver's licenses, signing into law a bill supporters say is one of the strongest rejections made to date to the federal plan....
"We also don't think that bureaucrats in Washington D.C. ought to tell us that if we're going to get on a plane we have to carry their card, so when it's scanned through they know where you went, when you got there and when you came home," said Schweitzer, a Democrat."This is still a free country and there are no freer people than the people that we have in Montana."
And guess who is going to lead the fight on Capitol Hill to roll back the Real ID? Sen. Squarehead:
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said he is pushing national legislation to repeal the Real ID Act.
"Montanans are speaking loud and clear on this issue and its time for Capitol Hill to listen," Tester said in a statement.
When the realignment comes, it will come from the West. When Republicans favor the creation of a federal ID card, you know something profound has changed. The pundits and politicians in DC may not yet see that, but the people in Montana already know.
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