Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner’s anti-terrorism bill, H.R. 418, that bans states from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens is expected on the House floor this week, and is getting flak from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Illinois state Senator Steve Rauschenberger (a Republican and the group’s prez-elect) is leading the NCSL effort to defeat the bill, saying it contains “unworkable, unproven, costly mandates that compel States to enforce federal immigration policy rather than advance the paramount objective of making State-issued identity documents more secure and verifiable.” I’d want to give Rauschenberger a bit more benefit of the doubt, but then you remember – wasn’t it in Illinois a few years back when then-Secretary of State George Ryan’s office sold commercial driver’s licenses to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars used to fund Republican campaigns? Yeah, and weren’t dozens of GOP bureaucrats were convicted in the ensuing scandal? And didn’t deaths result from the sordid affair? Viva subsidiarity – but I’ll make an exception when it comes to leaving national security matters in the hands of DMV patronage hacks. Ah well, let the games begin!