Isn’t it “wonderful” to see McScrotum Chin “leading” on the gut issues we face as a nation. The country is in dire straits in a myriad of ways and yet these worthless turds in the GOPe can find time for this crap. What’s next regulating the air pressure in the tires on children’s bicycles?
Why is this so important? Sheesh
Obviously, got their priorities straight.
Poker is as American as apple pie, and so is ignoring laws against gambling :)
This...this is what they choose to focus on. I’m done with these worm eating, cork soaking, rotten, filthy, traitorous sonsabitches. NOT ONE GOP CANDIDATE will have my vote this year, save Trump. That’s it. I hope to see the traitorous, back stabbing, money grubbing sh!tbag GOP go down in flames.
What I really want them to do is focus on KEEPING the internet
We lost seats in 2006 over this nonsense. A lot of people who are mostly conservative/libertarian in orientation also like their on-line poker. These days, a lot also like their fantasy football/baseball “games of skill”.
I HATE the proliferation of video slots that have had dire consequences, as the net result is to make the poor poorer in places like Rockford, Illinois, where I have seen what it did there first hand, and know law enforcement agents who can vouch with direct knowledge.
Unless you are willing to go back to a 1960s setup where it was Vegas/Reno and a few horse/dog tracks or nothing, that toothpaste is NOT going back in the tube. It started with weekly lottery tickets, then scratch-offs, then Jai-Alai, then Atlantic City, then Indian casinos, then more lottery games, dozens of scratch-offs, daily numbers, then national lottery games with bigger jackpots, then the proliferation of fantasy leagues that effectively bring the sports book everywhere, etc.
Online gaming is a small piece of the puzzle. It’s the five families, and the government is the biggest of the five families, protecting its turf. It’s for education funding, doncha know?
Congress acts like it packed it’s bags and moved to California.
Out here, the state addresses many things. It just never addresses things that really need to be fixed.
With all our problems, they focus on gun control over and over and over and over and over and over and over... Each new bill is the one to fix it.
Congress has ignored Obama for eight years. Now they focus on online gambling. Boy now there’s an epidemic robbing Americans blind.
Never mind the over taxation (flat out stealing us blind to give to others.) When a business online takes our money by permission, that’s criminal behavior.
Patriots, please consider the following.
First, Senate attention on Internet gambling is sponsored by the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A), that amendment arguably repealing the whole Constitution.
And speajing of 17A, patriots need to get into the habit of checking every action, or proposed action, of the corrupt feds against the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, most of these powers enumerated in Section 8 of Article I.
Regarding gambling, given that previous generatons of state sovereignty justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specfic powers to regulate either INTRAstate commerce or contracts, intluding interstate contracts, I don’t see where the feds have the express power to regulate Internet gambling.
Corrections, insights welcome.
This gambling legislation is arguably another example of the unconstitutionally big federal government once again unconstitutionally expanding its powers.
McConnell. What a statesman.
The Clintons don’t have a monopoly on pay to play.
Well I see the GOPe is afraid it might actually hold on to the Senate. We’ve seen this before 10 years ago when Bill Frist, on his way out the door, passed an Internet gambling to assure the GOPe would lose the Senate. It worked like a charm — as Conrad Burns and George Allen were narrowly defeated trimming the GOPe caucus from 51 down to 49. Absent Frist’s antics, the GOPe would certainly have held those 2 seats.
Just like the Gambino family they get a little testy when you don’t give them their cut.