Why on earth would be trust the cabal of oligarchs and kleptocrats running the country with a national ID card? I can only hope this monstrosity of an immigration gets quietly strangled, after doing its job of sowing discord amongst the lizard-brained and the Republicans (sorry for the redundancy). Je repete:

As a part of EEVS [employment verification], every person in America would be forced to carry a hardened Social Security card perhaps containing biometric information about the cardholder - essentially a national ID - and present a Real ID-compliant driver’s license to get any new job.

What next? Internal passports? And then there’s the fact that everybody, everybody, everybody is going to have to “show ID” before they get a job. I just can’t believe we’re even discussing the pros and cons of this assault on our liberties.

Kennedy got deked on this one, just like on NCLB. He’s an old-fashioned legislator, and with authoritarians in the saddle and holding the whip hand, legislation doesn’t mean squat. (They’ll just rewrite it, or, if that’s too obvious, put some Regent University oppo researcher in charge of the hiring. Or a crony.)

Bottom line: Why on earth would we trust the administration—any administration, until we hear Hillary’s views on the unitary executive and signing statements, which we haven’t—with power like this? Maybe when Constitutional government is restored, but not ’til then.