Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) proved his complete lack of understanding on the issue of voting rights in the United States during an appearance on the Fox Business show “Mornings With Maria,” suggesting that since you have to show an ID to rent a car, you should have to do the same when you cast a ballot.
Responding to comments made recently by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who vowed to fight attempts by “states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome and unnecessary” voting restrictions such as voter ID, Reschenthaler told host Maria Bartiromo, “It’s quite remarkable. You can’t rent a car in this country without showing an ID.”
“There’s office buildings in Washington, D.C., you can’t get into unless you show an ID. But then, to vote, you don’t need an ID?”
Talk about apples and oranges! The congressman seems to think that renting a car is analogous to casting a ballot, even though the right to vote is clearly enshrined in the Constitution. Virtually NO ONE has a right to rent a car if someone decides not to rent them one.
As for showing ID to get into a building, those laws were enacted for public safety, because government buildings make ideal targets for would-be terrorists, i.e. the truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh in April of 1995. McVeigh was later executed by lethal injection for that horrific crime.
Online clapback to Reschenthaler’s comments was immediate and righteously harsh.
