why was this law passed?

[westmt01]

If the medterm elections were not a month away, and if the Republican party was not in danger of losing control of one or both chambers of Congress, this bill never gets ram-rodded through so quickly. It languishes for years, perhaps never reaching the floor of either chamber.

I'm a political independent, so this is not a politically biased stab at either party, but this law is just another attempt to portray the Republicans as the moral guardians of the universe ahead of an election in which they are extremely vulnerable. Of course, they are also throwing the "L" word into the ring (terrorism), to show the great uninformed masses that by banning online gambling they are also making our country safer from terrorists. It would be funny if it weren't so ridiculous.

We, the online poker community, are just another victim of the machinery of politics.