By Azi Paybarah

October 11, 2007 | 1:54 p.m

A local Queens newspaper, the Queens Courier, has a rather over-the-top editorial today opposing Eliot Spitzer’s plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain a New York State driver’s license.

But they do raise one interesting point in their protest:

Making this change by executive order does have the practical effect of letting legislators off the hook for voting for such a move. Strategically, it puts the burden on Spitzer to carry the message, which, as has been noted, he seems willing to do.