Spitzer Scraps Illegal Immigrant Voter Registration Plan

Hallelujah. (HT: JWF)

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to abandon a plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, officials familiar with the decision told The Associated Press Tuesday night.

The governor is due to meet Wednesday morning with New York's congressional delegation, many of whom openly oppose the program. Debate over the issue also has spilled into New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign.

The governor's office signaled to New York lawmakers Tuesday that Spitzer will say at the meeting that he is shelving the plan and that immigration is a federal issue to be handled by Washington, according to congressional aides who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made.

Maybe this rare Spitzerian backpedal had something to do with the rookie Governor's re-election support dropping to just 25% just a year after he was swept into office in a 69%:29% landslide.  Or maybe he just wants to spend more time explaining his status as Norman Hsu's highest-paid politician (with nearly three times as much direct funding as Senator Clinton).

Speaking of whom, I wonder whether Hillary still supports, doesn't support, supports the illegrant immigrant licensing plan, now that even its architect has abandoned it.

Update:  Allahpundit's called in the humpbot for a victory dance.

Update (11/14):  *Chortle*  This ought to get those poll numbers up.  Nice work, champ.  If there's one thing people like at Christmas, it's more taxes.

Update (11/14):  Along with this fraud-inducing, vote-grubbing bathwater, Spitzer may also have thrown out a viable baby.  From a press release put out today by 9/11 Families For a Secure America:

It's incredible. Governor Spitzer still doesn't get it.

Now he has broken his word to the Department of Homeland Security, and to every New Yorkers concerned about terrorism, by withdrawing his solemn commitment to enter New York into the Real ID program. It is another slap in the face to 9/11 family members working to keep driver's licenses out of terrorist hands. 

Real ID is an express recommendation of the 9/11 Commission. It is specifically designed to prevent terrorists from obtaining this powerful identity card, the very document used by the 9/11 terrorists to plan and execute their attacks.

Previously:
Private Media Summit At Von Spitzer's Secret Lair
Hillary Swings, Misses, Runs Bases Obliviously, Waving Cap To Embarrassed Fans
Gov. Spitzer's Latest Awkward Pirouette In His Spastic "Dance Of a Million Mostly Democratic Illegal Votes"