You want to know the first thing that jumped out at me from this morning’s LA Times? The passage by the California legislature of a bill allowing roughly two million illegal aliens to get a California driver’s license. Baloney.

I guess I’ve just been so preoccupied by present personal circumstances, and other issues I thought were more worthy of my writing time, to keep an eye on this. I didn’t realize that the Save Davis crew had managed to get this moving so quickly.

Can someone please explain to me why it’s not ridiculous to give a license to drive all over California to someone who has no legal right to be in California? Please explain why these folks aren’t being arrested at the DMV, and anywhere else they’re found.

Look, I’m not anti-immigrant. I’m not prejudiced against Mexicans, or Guatemalans, or Oregonians, or even the French. I belong to an immigrant church. But I support the rule of law, and I believe that someone who wants to work here should do so legally. And if that’s not fairly possible – if we’re betraying the creed on the Statue of Liberty – then that’s where the need for legal reform lies.

Illegal aliens should be required to become legal. Make the rules fair, make everybody play along. Fill out the forms, get fingerprinted, then pay taxes. I’ve done all those things to work in California, and I was born here.

Proponents of this legislation claim their doing it for public safety. Nuts. They don’t give a wet slap about public safety. They’re doing this for one reason only, to pander to the Latino community for their anti-recall votes. I don’t know which is worse in that, Davis’ betrayal of his oath to uphold the laws of California, or his blatant disrespect for Latino intelligence.

This law sucks. It’s aiding and abetting a criminal act. It creates a double standard that puts a whole class of people above the law. And no one, on the far right or the far left, should be allowed to manipulate the law to further a nefarious personal or political agenda.