With all the problems that this country is currently facing, from two never ending wars, millions of people who have exhausted two years of unemployment, Congressional bickering over giving the richest 1% OF THE PEOPLE EVEN MORE MONEY, a lame duck Congress with three weeks to at least TRY and solve these problems, we have our good friend, Harry Reid, taking care of his real constituents.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has asked his staff to work on a bill that would legalize online poker.
You got to be fucking kidding me.
Staffers for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are circulating a bill to legalize poker playing on the Internet that's backed by large casino interests.
The Nevada casino companies pushing the measure were among the Democrat's biggest donors during his fierce re-election fight. They argue the bill would provide consumer protection for poker players and would provide some tax revenue for federal and state governments.
On Wednesday, three Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Mr. Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) opposing any efforts to pass Internet poker legislation during the lame-duck session.
Wait, it gets even better,
According to the draft of the bill reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Reid's office is considering language that would allow only existing casinos, horse tracks and slot-machine makers to operate online poker websites for the first two years after the bill passes, which could limit the ability of other companies to enter the market.
The bill would also outsource oversight to state regulators, another move supported by existing casinos that don't want to see the federal government become overly involved in regulating their industry.
Ill give ya two guesses who these priveleged few would be.
Times up.
And I quote,
"Be assured that the casinos went all in for Reid."
That would be for his recent election against that loony tunes crazy woman Sharon Anglle.
So, to recap, Reid is pretty much telling us all to go fuck ourselves while he has his staff spending precious time drafting legislation to legalize On line Poker, to pay his casino buddies back for helping him retain office.
That's Democracy in action, ain't it?
The people first and all that horseshit Rah Rah crap.
What an asshole.
Jesus motherfucking christ, do I hate politicians, especially this wimpy cock sucker.
Fuck, Pelosi has bigger balls than this sycophantic, money grubbing, whore.
If he thinks for one fucking second that the Repubs are going to go along with this blatent bit of nut licking, he had better think again.
Personally, I think he should be using his and his staffers time a little more productively
LIKE FIXING OUR IMMEDIATE FUCKING PROBLEMS!
None of this shit surprises me. What surprises and dimays me is a lack of crowds with torches and pitchforks.
ReplyDeletei think that crowd will be coming soon. if one of us doesn't get a job soon, we are in deep shit. i do not look forward to the next few weeks. i just want to eat and live indoors; i didn't think that was too much to ask.
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Fuck that. Use the pitchfork. Better yet, use the torch to get it nice and hot first!
ReplyDeleteface it. The oligarchs have taken cotrol of the govt. They will get every thing they want and to hell with the rest of us. You can plainly see who owns congress by the way the rethugs are fighting to keep the millionaires and corporations from paying any taxes. We are so many generations from the bad days when the mega corps raped the US that we have all forgotten and gotten lazy. This is the result. We have the best congress that money can buy. Watch the next 2 years and see what the rethuigs do. 2012 is going to be nasty as the rethugs believe that they have a vast majority behind them, even tho less than 40% of people registered to vote, did.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Muddome.
ReplyDeleteEVERY SINGLE F**KING DAY!!!!!
Thanks, Busted.
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What surprises and dismays me is a lack of crowds with torches and pitchforks.