NY Democrat Party and Bush Team Up to Save Spitzer, Hillary and Illegal Aliens

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s public relations secretary is no doubt thinking: “the Governor may be in trouble with the State’s voters and the Democrat Party, and the controversial plan to issue driver’s licenses for illegals would have forced Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to take an extremely unpopular stand, but we dodged the bullet; President Bush has offered a valuable last minute assist.”

Doing whatever it takes to keep illegal aliens laboring for cheap wages for elitist and profiteers and even arm twisting this own party on amnesty for 20 to 30 million illegal aliens ranks higher in President Bush priority than border security, the rule of law and even the bringing defeat to his party in 2006 and now 2008. He will get his wish.

Governor Spitzer is paddling a sinking canoe against the opposing current of public opinion on granting New York driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. In a motor voter act state, like New York, this is exactly the same thing as giving one million illegal aliens the right to vote. In a motor voter state when a person applies for a driver’s license they can automatically be issued a voter registration at the same time. The driver’s license application asks people, such as illegal aliens, who have lied to their employers, to the Social Security Administration, to school officials, to social services administrators, to Census Bureau counters and many more, in order to live in our country illegally, if they are citizens of the United States. To answer NO is like saying, “I am an illegal alien, report me to ICE”. Does anyone expect illegal aliens to tell the truth about their immigration status? Does anyone really think that law-breaking illegal aliens have any qualms about lying to protect themselves?

Governor Spitzer’s goal is clear enough. Before issuing his Executive Order to force the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, he ordered DMV to remove the word “Temporary” from the drivers licenses so there would be no way of distinguishing an illegal alien from a citizen with the right to vote. Complicating matters, the law prohibits challenging a person’s right to vote at the voting booth if they are already registered to vote. A driver’s license in New York means that a million illegal aliens could, one day, vote for Eliot Spitzer and Democrat Party candidates like Hillary Clinton, as a show of appreciation for what we may affectionately call the “Spitzer Illegal Alien Suffrage Day”.

How much opposition is there against Governor Spitzer in New York? There is enough for a fatal political injury in a head-on collision with the citizens and voters.

“Nearly three-quarters of voters – including 59% of Democrats – oppose the Governor’s plan to give driver’s licenses to undocumented aliens,” said Steven Greenberg, Siena New York Poll spokesman. “The voters’ message to the Governor is clear: ‘No, no, no.’

“Nearly two-thirds of voters believe that the Governor’s proposal poses a national security risk, and two-thirds disagree with the argument that it will lower auto insurance costs. Even most Democrats are on the opposite side of the fence from the Governor on these questions. Voters from every region of New York overwhelmingly oppose Governor Spitzer on this issue,” Greenberg said.

A half-dozen senior Democrats told the New York Post that Spitzer’s licensing plan is producing what one called “a mass exodus” away from the party’s candidates that may lead to unexpected losses in November’s local elections.

They are also warning that growing voter unhappiness with Spitzer on licensing and other issues – illustrated in several recent polls – could carry into next year and end the Democrats’ hope of winning control of the GOP-dominated state Senate.

“The driver’s-license issue is a killer for us in the suburbs,” a senior party strategist said.

"The Nassau County Legislature is in danger, and so are the big Buffalo races," said a prominent elected Democrat official, referring to election battles to retain slim Democrat control in Nassau County and to win hotly-fought contests for County Executive and Clerk in Erie County.

In the New York State Senate eight Democrats oppose the Spitzer plan, with Republicans taking a solid united stand against it.

Senate Representatives Craig M. Johnson of Nassau County, Jeffrey D. Klein of Westchester and the Bronx, Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, Diane J. Savino of Brooklyn and Staten Island, William T. Stachowski from the Buffalo area, Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Westchester, Antoine M. Thompson from the Buffalo area and David J. Valesky from the Syracuse area are among the Democrats who have risen above partisanship out of concern for the increased risk to public safety and voter fraud.

The Democrat-controlled Assembly also shows signs of dissent. Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther of Forestburgh, a fellow Democrat of Spitzer’s, voted against his plan. She had hoped the governor would have sought input from the Assembly and the residents before he announced his decision.

She reasoned, “With no input from the legislature, nor from the residents, nor think tanks, nor county clerks; it was done unilaterally and I don’t think that is the way; we have open government and I don’t think that is part of the reform process.”

A majority of the state County Clerks Association oppose the plan. Several say they will ignore it.

Earlier this week, Rensselaer County Clerk, Frank Merola, filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles and the DMV Commissioner, David Swarts, to try to block the policy change.

Against all the political pressure from Democrats and Republicans and from civil servants and from the state citizens, Governor Spitzer has a friend in the White House: President Bush.

President Bush has given his support for Spitzer-like driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. These illegal aliens run the spectrum of U.S. immigration law fugitives, foreign law fugitives hiding in America, potential terrorists who have overstayed their visas or crossed the border illegally, drug cartel operatives, and 20 to 30 million illegal workers who depress the wages of American workers or simply replace them, and who are bankrupting our hospitals with unpaid non-emergency medical bills.

Against this relentless opposition Governor Spitzer had backed himself into a blind alley with 20 feet high walls on three sides and a pack for wolfs of all stripes snapping at his heels, a wonderful negotiating position only in a madman’s mind.

But President Bush drove a hard bargain with Governor Spitzer: he insisted that in consideration for the federal government turning a blind eye to the special New York driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, New York would issue driver’s licenses for citizens that comply with the federal Real ID Act of 2005, which states will soon have to comply with anyway. What is implicit in this “tough bargain” from President Bush is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under the command of his Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, will not actively seek the identities of those who apply for the non-citizens category of driver’s license. This was negotiated last Saturday between President Bush, Michael Chertoff and the architect of the New York State driver’s license for illegal aliens, Governor Eliot Spitzer.

This is a trumpet call to alert all Democrats and Republicans who believe in the rule of law, and who are fed up with the President and certain opportunistic politicians who refuse to secure our borders and enforce immigration laws. These elitists’ and opportunists’ actions can be put in a few words: they make the taxpayers pay for public expenses like education, healthcare, incarceration and whatever welfare illegal alien workers need to make up for low wages exploiters pay in the pursuit of private profits. This formula of public expense for private profit has the practical consequences of waging economic class warfare. Secondarily, it is about political opportunists acting irresponsibly, for political gain, to give a massive number of illegal aliens the opportunity to vote for them illegally. Neither Democrat nor Republican voters should stand for this injustice towards America, its citizens and its workers.

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