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The bottom line is that this bill would have never been brought up for a vote, either tacked onto another bill or standing alone, if the Democrats had been in power. Once it was brought up for a vote, even as a stand alone, most Democrats would have voted for it .

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I snipped your excuses. Don't excuse poor representation. It's a bad habit. You deserve better from you party of choice.

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You're speaking very adamantly in this thread, but I'm having trouble figuring out what you're trying to say.

Here's how I see it. Basically, three things could have happened:

(1) The bill could have come up for a vote and passed.

(2) The bill could have come up for a vote and failed.

(3) The bill could have never come up for a vote.

#2 was unlikely, so our best chance was #3, and it looked like there was a strong possibility this is what was going to happen -- well, up until it became apparent that Frist was determined to get the bill through, at which point it also became apparent that there was a lot of reason to worry.

But our problem at this point seems huge to me. We're stuck with a law that basically has a lot of support in Congress, however indifferent much of that support may be. To get the law repealed, we actually need to get a repeal bill voted on, and as far as I know, no one in Congress is really pushing for this, and it seems to me that currently a repeal bill would have little chance of passing even if by some miracle such legislation did get drafted and did come up for a vote.

But maybe a poker carve-out is possible, somehow? I don't know.

Edit: And I guess our other hope -- maybe a better one -- is that in practice the law won't restrict online poker as much as its authors intended for it to.

Edited by Nick C (10/05/06 05:48 PM)

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