Voter ID Law And Politics.

Well, a Pennsylvania judge put a hold on the state's voter ID law. That's because it's a particularly strict law and there isn't sufficient time left to enforce the law and still get everyone who is entitled to vote the ID they would have needed to do so. The governor's and majority leadership's in the state legislature response must be "Oh darn". That's because they were hoping they could indeed disenfranchise a lot of Obama supporters. How else to explain the Majority leader's statement on film that "Voter ID law, DONE, so Gov. Romney can win Pennsylvania." He said it, no dispute there.Now being partisan isn't a bad thing. Even if you're the leader of a state legislature. That is unless you're using that position to eliminate likely voters of the competition. When you pass a law that has no pressing purpose, you're wasting the peoples time. See, the people elect the legislators to do a job. Or a number of jobs. The point of those jobs is to protect and support the lives of all the people. Nobody gets elected to serve the needs of just some of the people. This news may come as a shock to many legislators, both in the states and in the federal government. Governors and the President come under this rule also. In fact if you're elected by the public, in any political subdivision, municipality, state or federal to any position, you are elected to serve everyone in that subdivision. Politicians have forgotten that point. Mostly these folks think they're elected to serve one party or one ideology. Not so. In fact, if that were so, this country would have fallen apart long ago. The thing is, to accomplish what it was you were elected to do, you're going to have to compromise some of the time. That means everybody. Nobody should have the right to go through a term of office without compromising. That should be a law. Anyway, back in Pennsylvania, the best advise I could give the Governor and legislative leaders is to spend more time on enforcing the laws it already has. And maybe look for where there are actual loopholes not covered by law. This photo ID law ain't one of them.