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The driver's license law, passed by the Legislature last September... but widespread public opposition and threats of a March ballot initiative to overturn it prompted legislators to repeal the law only weeks before it was to take effect.

I know I'm supposed to understand this somehow, but I'm completely lost.

If the Legislature passed the law, it was because they thought it was good public policy - right?

Now they've repealed it before it even went into effect??

The way I see it, either it was good public policy when they passed it - in which case they're cowards for repealing it just because Davis got thrown out - OR, it was bad policy to begin with - in which case they were idiots for passing it, and THEY should all be thrown out!

At the very least, those who voted to enact it and THEN voted to repeal it, have got to be either cowards or idiots - RIGHT??

Okay... Maybe my categorizations are extreme... but even toning down the rhetoric, they've got to be either "morally compromised" or "intellectually challenged"...

Or am I missing something here? Did something substantive change - some Federal policy, or something - between the time that the law was enacted and the time it was repealed, that would provide a *rational* reason for a legislative body to act in such an apparently irrational fashion?

I really am dumbfounded... I mean, assuming the latter is not the case, it seems to me an inescapable conclusion that the Legislature - or, again, *at least* those who flip-flopped on the issue - are by all rules of logic either - okay, cowards or idiots.

Again, please forgive my irascible tenor, I really hate Demonrats and find it hard to restrain myself - but I'm REALLY confused by this. How could any Legislator do this and not expect to be ridiculed and lampooned by both his/her/its opponents in the next election?

Are Communfornians so dumb that they don't even *see* the irrationality of this?

Or am I missing something here? Did something substantive change - some Federal policy, or something - between the time that the law was enacted and the time it was repealed, that would provide a *rational* reason for a legislative body to act in such an apparently irrational fashion?

Putting down a political firestorm is rational. (I guess) They intend to re-introduce a slightly 'better' form of the bill later, when no one is paying attention. Perhaps like one of the versions Davis vetoed earlier, which had more security features.

Are Communfornians so dumb that they don't even *see* the irrationality of this?

This "Communfornian" sees things clearly. We've been snookered. The bill to give driver's licenses to illegals will simply be reintroduced later, and they will try to sneak it past us. Arnold will sign it, saying, "Oh, now it has security measures, so it's okay."