Under intense national pressure, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has shelved his controversial plan to give illegal aliens drivers licenses: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. Ed Lasky: One can imaging that Hillary wishes this plan had been dropped before the last Democratic Presidential candidates forum. The plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants is opposed by the majority of Americans on several grounds. Foremost among these is the...(Read Full Post)