Our Bold Congress

11:05 pm EST May 24th, 2006 | Politics | 2 Comments

Tired of being derided as a do-nothing congress, even with Republican control across the board, the GOP House of Represenatives has decided to act. Sure, they could deal with the important issues of our time: war, terrorism, health care, energy, immigration.

They chose internet casinos.

Today, the House Judiciary Committee will mark up a bill introduced by Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (R) that would ban much online gambling, including bets on sporting events and games of chance — namely poker, which has enjoyed a boom in recent years.

The legislation could get an unexpected boost from the Jack Abramoff scandal. The disgraced lobbyist was key to blocking one of Goodlatte’s three previous attempts to ban Internet gambling, and backlash over corruption charges could help the current effort.

That’s right, because there’s a direct line between congressional Republicans being caught up in a web of corruption and graft between lobbyists and congressmen… and average Americans playing some harmless Texas Hold ‘Em in the privacy of their homes.

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2 Responses to “Our Bold Congress”

  1. garth says:
    May 25, 2006 at 2:05 pm

    jeebus. sometimes i think they are after me personally. i still don’t understand the outrage over poker from some idiot quarters. partypoker.com better start dumping money into politicians i guess.
    if i were a savvy dem, i’d be after them. just me talkin though

  2. BD says:
    May 25, 2006 at 3:05 pm

    Maybe politicians get offended by the idea of people gambling with their own money instead of making sucker bets with somebody else’s.