Comments on: Senate rejects extra $300 million for Real ID

Opponents of new identification card requirements say move further signals contentious Bush administration-backed plan is "dead in the water."

[mattumanu]

Would "real ID" have stopped 911?

I don't think so, but I do know that if someone in intelligence or the Bush Administration had kept their head on straight they could have stopped those terrorists right then and their.

I'm glad to see this thing die. Let's it hope it goes the way of the national medical card.

[Dalkorian]

you assume

You've fallen into the mistaken assumption that the Bush
administration WANTED to stop 9-11.

If they did that, they wouldn't have been able to sell us on the
useless and baseless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nor would
they be able to sell us on the illegal prisons in Guantanimo or
the illegal activity in Abu Graib (sp?). Their war on the
Constitution would be laughed right out of existence.

Think about this for a moment - we're still in Afghanistan, but
the taliban is resurging. We're unable to capture a towel head
(Bin Laden) running around the top on a mountain range, but we
were able to find another towel head (Saddam) hiding in an
underground hole in the middle of a desert. We've invaded
Afghanistan, but the terrorists are hiding in Pakistan. Our good
friends in Saudi Arabia were the main sponsors of the 9-11
attacks. Iran appears to be guilty of all the crimes we falsely
charged Iraq for, but we're doing nothing about it.

"Terrorism" is just a buzz word the bush administration is using
to sell us on being a nazi police state. The only way to deal with
it is impeachment of the entire administration for war crimes
and crimes against humanity.

[aka_tripleB]

This would be real nightmare for me if it is passed

I've had problems with verifying my ID and this is going to probably going to cause me to be arrested before I would be able to get a "Real ID." I've had a problem with the credit bureaus where they basically said I DON'T exist, but an excellent candidate for a credit card. Damn, I hated all those pre-approved credit card applications. It took THREE MONTHS to get them to fix my credit file. Do you want to know how I finally got them to fill-in the missing information? I sent them a letter saying that what they had was wrong and that "this" is what you should have.

And these are the companies that EVERYBODY goes to for background checks! How reliable can there information be if you can send them a letter, and they will change your info no questions asked? And I believe that these SAME companies are the ones who are going to do the background checks for the real ID. The real ID is nothing but an undertaking to illegally monitor US citizens and we should not stand for it.

If this still goes through, we should rally and march to D.C., and demand this act be repealed. And if nothing else, we will find how many corrupted politicians we have in the government. After all, this country is supposed to be "for the people" and if those we have elected refuse to listen to us, then we will know where our leadership's loyalty really lies!

[rcrusoe]

This is good news

IF the government wants me to believe they are interested is securing this country, they need to close the borders and get rid of all the criminals (i.e. everyone) that have entered illegally.

THEN I might believe they are serious about security.

[vhac]

Gooooo Real ID

"By a 50-44 vote mostly along party lines, the chamber set aside a Republican-backed amendment to a homeland security spending bill that would have spread $300 million across the states to help them implement the so-called Real ID Act."
It is strange to see the Republican claiming to be in favor of smaller & less government control tried and voted for more government control.