More on Real ID

Colorado's recent experience with Real ID gives some food for thought. See the article on Stateline.org.

REAL ID - OMG

REAL ID can also spell derail, as in one more derailment of our civil rights or railed as in railroaded down our throats. If I'm playing some of the letters in scrabble then I've got lied, liar, deal and lair, all of which are applicable. I could come up with more words, but I do have to get some of those other things done that I mentioned in yesterday's post. You get the picture.

What I want to know is how this got through congress, and I never heard about it. It's a full time job to go through all the bills that are in one stage or another in congress. I really could not believe some of the bills that have been drafted, discussed, redrafted, redicussed, voted on, ad nauseum that have so little relevance (check out GovTrack and you'll see what I mean). And that's where my taxes are going? To pay the salaries of a bunch of congress people who vote on bills to change the names of buildings?