Real ID is Dead? Yay!

Oh...wait.

Yes, our dear Safety Czar, Janet Napolitano, has saved the day. Napolitano actually signed Arizona's version of the Middle-Finger Law opting out of Real ID last year, but that was then. Now she's playing for the big leagues, and that changes all your convictions the rules.

The new proposal, called Pass ID, would be cheaper, less rigorous and partly funded by federal grants, according to draft legislation that Napolitano's Senate allies plan to introduce as early as tomorrow.

The rebranding effort follows months of talks with the National Governors Association and poses political risk for Obama as well as Napolitano, a former NGA chairwoman who wants to soothe strained relations with the states without appearing to retreat on a recommendation by the 9/11 Commission.

Since the new Real ID Light tastes great AND is less filling, no doubt a number of governors will drop their treasonous objections and we can get down to inventorying and tracking government property the way civilized totalitarian nation-states should.