NY Abandons Drivers Licenses for Illegals

The issue that badly tripped up Hillary Clinton in the last Dem debate and has been plaguing NY Governor Eliot Spitzer is being abandoned by the governor:

Gov. Eliot Spitzer is abandoning his plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, saying that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward with such a policy.

The governor, who is to announce the move formally on Wednesday, said in an interview Tuesday night that he did not reach the decision easily.

“You have perhaps seen me struggle with it because I thought we had a principled decision, and it’s not necessarily easy to back away from trying to move a debate forward,” he said.

But he came to believe the proposal would ultimately be blocked, he said, either by legal challenges, a vote by the Legislature to deny financing for the Department of Motor Vehicles or a refusal by upstate county clerks to carry it out.

“I am not willing to fight to the bitter end on something that will not ultimately be implemented,” the governor said, “and we also have an enormous agenda on other issues of great importance to New York State that was being stymied by the constant and almost singular focus on this issue.”

I think there are two things going on here. First of all Spitzer tried to ram this program down the throats of NY voters and they rebelled. Secondly, the Clintons can't afford to have this out there as a continuing issue and I'd be shocked if they didn't have something to do with Spitzer's decision.

Maybe they promised him an unplanned trip to Fort Marcy Park if he didn't cooperate.