Earlier this week, the Senate passed a military spending bill with a vote of 100-0. The Democrats, perhaps remembering how Kerry was burned for his "voting for the war but against the spending" debacle, unanimously voted for the expenditure, thus proving that they are utterly incapable of being the opposition political party.
Why? Because nestled within this spending bill was something that they should have objected to (if for no other reason than the Republicans wanted it; I don't expect them to stand on principle). Specifically, they should have at least offered token resistance to the bill's "Real ID" provisions, which creates a defacto national ID card by establishing federal data standards for state ID (like drivers license) that will be used to connect to a centralized database. And yeah, you'll have to use this card to do, well, pretty much anything that involves the government. And given how Social Security information was used and abused by the public and private sectors, you can imagine others will try and use it too.
Yes folks, we have officially entered the "papers please" era. Or we will in two years, when the new laws' provisions kick into full effect.
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Scary stuff. Although I'm technically a republican, I've come to the conclusion that our current government is essentially incapable of functioning the way it was intended to.
I'm in the same boat (or at least a skiff near the boat). It is exceedingly frustrating, all the more so because the opposition party doesn't seem all that keen on actually opposing stuff like this.
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