Politics > Politics-USA > Republicans promote online horse-race gambling in the name of "family values"
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"Harry Hope" |
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10 Jul 2006 08:21:20 PM |
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Republicans promote online horse-race gambling in the name of "family values" |
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/07/congressional-republicans-on-verge-of.html
Monday, July 10, 2006
Congressional Republicans on verge of passing bill to promote online
horse-race gambling in the name of "family values"
by John in DC
Ah those Republican family values.
This time, under the guise of passing an "anti-gambling" bill, the
Republicans are really passing legislation that makes it legal to
gamble on horse races online.
They are about to ban every other kind of online gambling in the same
legislation BUT horse-racing.
Why?
Because the horse-racing lobbyists have been all over the Republicans.
I've read the documentation, you should see the horse-racing lobbyists
crowing about how they got the Republicans to carve them a nifty
little exemption in this supposed "family values" bill.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INTERNET_GAMBLING?SITE=OKTUL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Other critics complain that the bill doesn't cover all forms of
gambling.
They point to exemptions they say would allow online lotteries and
Internet betting on horse racing to flourish while cracking down on
other kinds of sports betting, casino games and card games like poker.
"If you're going to support legislation that is supposed to 'prohibit
gambling,' you should not have carve-outs," said Andrea Lafferty,
executive director of the conservative Traditional Values Coalition.
Perhaps the Bible says that all gambling is immoral EXCEPT horse-race
gambling.
Yeah, that must be it.
These bozos haven't even gotten to legislation dealing with $3.50 a
gallon gas prices, with insurance reform, with drug pricing, with
fixing the now-illegal military tribunals Bush was planning on using
to try supposed terrorists.
They haven't deal with our US ports that Bush is trying to sell to the
Middle East.
With our international cargo coming into the US that still isn't all
being checked for nuclear bombs.
Instead, the Republicans are shoving through special interest
legislation to promote horse-race gambling because they've been bought
off by special gambling interests.
And we all know how clean those folks are.
The epitome of family values.
Maybe they'll name the legislation after Bill Bennett.
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Ain't those phony hypocrite Repugs just beautiful?
Harry
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