Your papers, please? - Sometimes the right-wingers display a healthy libertarian respect for privacy. The Wash Times reports on Dick Armey's efforts to eliminate some of the more authoritarian measures from President Bush's homeland security bill. (Even Nancy Pelosi and the ACLU are said to approve.) I certainly see how Operation TIPS could give people the willies. On the other hand, what is the big deal with a national ID card?

Critics have called the ID card "an internal passport," and Armey insists that "authority to design and issue these cards shall remain with the states." Yet these guys even oppose having national standards for state drivers licenses or providing funds to update state databases and link them together. To me, a uniform ID is an eminently logical and, more importantly, practical concept. But it is one that has consisently met with remarkably effective ideologically-based resistance. Perhaps Rob can enlighten me as to the hidden dangers...?