On the privacy issues, Bush proposed this week in his homeland security strategy that states be encouraged to develop uniform rules for issuing drivers' licenses as an anti-terrorism measure. To many conservatives and civil libertarians, that sounded too much like a national identification card that the government could use to track Americans.Armey flatly rejected that notion, saying, "Authority to design and issue these cards shall remain with the states."
Though I have some agreement on some of the issues, the standardized licenses are a good idea. Why shouldn't they have same "standards"? "To track Americans"? They can do that now with driver's licenses, that's simply misleading rhetoric.
I suspect the immigration and transportation lobbies are behind this, dividing the states, and buying out state governments, like buying out Tennessee to loosely issue Driver's licenses on suspect documents.