David Dewhurst Is Smoking Something

The wonderful Polly Ross Hughes has a San Antonio Express-News interview with David Dewhurst in which he laments that the Senate did not pass a voter ID bill this session:

"I was disappointed we did not get a voter ID program out there," said Dewhurst, who asserted there's evidence of "thousands and thousands and thousands" of non-citizens voting in Texas. "This is a no-brainer."

But opponents argued such a bill would discourage low-income Texans, who tend to vote for Democrats, from going to the polls. Such voters can't afford to drive or to purchase state-issued ID cards.

Does he really believe this? If so, he is delusional. If not, then he is pandering to the most xenophobic and most partisan nutjobs in his party, and should be ashamed of himself.