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10-05-2006, 05:34 AM
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How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?
While everyone is making a big deal about how the issue was brought to a vote, I think it is important to know what the vote would have been if the internet bill stood alone. My impression is that it would still have passed easily. Am I right? If so that is important to know.
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10-05-2006, 05:44 AM
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Re: How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?
What am I thinking of when I remember reading on here by respectable posters that HR4411 was estimated at like 30% to pass a little before the Frist thing came up?
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10-05-2006, 05:46 AM
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Re: How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?
I don't know if it would have passed by itself or not. I do know, however, that if it stood by itself and never got attached to anything they probably never would have voted on it anyway.
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10-05-2006, 05:45 AM
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Re: How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?
Yes it would have passed on it's own. Though if the subject was debated a bit it might have lent itself to helping the "someday regulating and taxing" cause.
Just sneaking it through helps nothing......... I'm also 100% wrong as I sit here and type. The way this bill was snuck through may actually help somehow too we'll just have to wait and see
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10-05-2006, 05:47 AM
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Re: How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?
On it's "own" I think it was more likely NOT to pass than to pass. But I don't follow politics very closely...maybe someone can chime in here. (I bet the european stock traders would have a good guess)
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10-05-2006, 05:51 AM
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Re: How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?
Why is this important? What's important is that we move on and try to figure out a solution to this whole thing, not think what coulda been and was.
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10-05-2006, 06:05 AM
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Re: How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?
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Why is this important? [/ QUOTE ] 1. Because as a standalone it would help identify those politians that poker players could try to vote out of office. 2. By the deceptive practice it aids politians in obsfucating issues to help divide the American people and make it harder for the people to realize how the Government intrudes on individual freedoms. 3. This is only one issue of many that has eroded your individual rights over your lifetime.
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10-05-2006, 06:17 AM
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Re: How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?
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[ QUOTE ] Why is this important? [/ QUOTE ] 1. Because as a standalone it would help identify those politians that poker players could try to vote out of office. 2. By the deceptive practice it aids politians in obsfucating issues to help divide the American people and make it harder for the people to realize how the Government intrudes on individual freedoms. 3. This is only one issue of many that has eroded your individual rights over your lifetime. [/ QUOTE ] Yes, but none of that matters. The system works the way it works and can't be changed. We have to work the system, not spout off "its aint right", because no one cares that it isn't right. We have to put an effective lobby in place, it has to be the player's lobby, not the sites. We need a leader. Of course, none of the management here is going to step up so we better start looking elsewhere. The solution is simple, as players, we go to the Congress, hat in hand, and ask them to regulate the industry for our protection. Dang, this ain't rocket science. I thought you guys were expert thinkers.
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10-05-2006, 12:25 PM
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Re: How Many Senators Would Have Voted Otherwise?
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We need a leader. Of course, none of the management here is going to step up so we better start looking elsewhere. [/ QUOTE ] The management here, as far as I can tell, make their living as authors, publishers, consultants to b&m casinos, and b&m poker players. How does that make them the voice of online poker?
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