Apropos of the conclusion in today’s editorial on the Spitzer illegal-alien license plan:

And now Hillary is foursquare behind it. Republicans could help themselves — and the country — by educating voters about this open-borders advocacy from the woman who would be president.

A reader pointed out that congressional Republicans also have a political opportunity to offer amendments to every transportation- or security-related bill to close the loophole Spitzer is seeking to exploit. In 2005, Sensenbrenner’s people felt they had to include the loophole permitting a special illegal-alien driver’s license to get the Real ID bill passed. Now Spitzer (and Hillary) have actually created the political space to close the loophole, or at least force congressional Democrats to engage in a loud and self-destructive debate in support of licenses for illegal aliens. This is a three-to-one issue on our side — not exploiting it would be a blunder. They would even have the administration on their side (nominally, at least), since Secretary Chertoff did say, even if unconvincingly, that “I do not endorse giving licenses to people who are not here legally, but federal law does allow states to make that choice.”

I debated this on the NewsHour last night; transcript is here.