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"..It is hard to believe that Republicans, of all people, would be the ones to quash such an exemplar of the free-enterprise system."


Not if you realize what outright hypocrites they can be.You will never really be free with these people imposing their own morals and/or religious views on you.All this was....was the free market system at work.One of the best examples of it ever,and they showed their hypocrisy by killing it.They didn't want to regulate it.Nope.They wanted to kill it.I saw the discussion of this in the House of Representatives.The major proponents speaking for it were Conservative Republicans from Virginia,Georgia,and Iowa.I can understand some semi-Marxist or something being for the ban(atleast it is consistent,)but for Capitalism- loving Republicans to want to ban a form of free enterprise? Total hypocrisy.

By the way,today,if you go to play using TVG,XPRESSBET,BRISNET,or YOUBET, that is not the best example of free enterprise.The % taken OUT of the pools is set.Their is no competition involved there.For instance,in California,you can legally play TVG,YOUBET,or XPRESSBET.Just them.No competition from others allowed.Those 3 can't compete with each other by paying you a better win rate than the others.The off-shore Internet sites were examples of free enterprise,and these hypocrites killed that(in favor of the uncompetitive legal forms.i.e. TVG,YOUBET,XPRESSBET.)

There was plenty of support for the bill from the Dems,too! It would be nice to get it overturned or repealed!

In the HOUSE OF REPS., Republican Conservatives from Virginia started all this ("for the children.")In the Senate,Conservative Republican Bill Frist got it through:

Internet Gambling Ban
In September 2006, working with Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, Frist was a major Senate supporter of H.R. 4411 - The Unlawful Internet Gambling and Enforcement Act[13] . This amendment to the Safe Port Act was passed at midnight the day Congress adjourned before the 2006 elections. Prior to it being added to the bill, the gambling provisions had not been debated by any Congressional committee.


Then your boy Bush gladly signed it.

Socially Conservative Republicans led the way in all 3 steps of the process.There needs to be a way for greedy people (who don't want to pay any tax) to separate themselves from the social conservatives.You're all together in the same party,and it backfired in this case.

Obviously I was against the bill! Unfortunately, I have no sway with Bush.