Wisconsin Department of Transportation

Wisconsin Officials: Free WI Voter ID Not Issued Free Is Not Not Wrong

September 12, 2011 by The Political E...

Wisconsin Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb is just the latest Republican official - - from George Bush-to-Dick Cheney-to-Donald Rumsfeld-to-Scott Fitzgerald-to-Scott Walker - - to adhere to the party's first principle: no apologies, no backing down, regardless of how badly you've screwed up or how flat-out wrong you are.

Gottlieb endorsed his party's love affair with "no" defending Steven Krieser, a former DMV manager recently elevated to senior management, who had told line workers in writing to withhold from citizen customers applying for the new state voter ID that the ID is free, reports the Capital Times, the paper that found Krieser's Don't-Tell-Unless-They-Ask written directive last week.

To jam himself into the requisite Republican negative template, however, Gottleib's tied himself in nots with the rare quintuple negative.  Few have jumped through that many hoops to validate something so loopy: