The Republicans have very little to crow about with the mess we are in n Iraq … makes Vietnam almost look smart, and with a now widespread cover up of illegal children on line sex scandals coming out in the heart of Republican territory Bush needs something non-controversial.

As I posted earlier, ABC didn’t report the issue very well, just tried to make it sound good.

According to an online friend who makes a lot of money on the non-operations side of Internet poker
http://www.tylercruz.com/?p=159
there is not going to be much impact on the industry … just on voters who don’t comprehend the ‘Net.

I remember my dad telling me something about how there is a lot more to business than profit. And he used to refer to this as what’s "beyond the bottom line." A few days ago, US Congress drove the arrow……

Unlike ABC’s lightweight assessment I don’t think this is going to eliminate the 6.5 billion USD industry, it will just add some sort of bump in the road. There have been other payment obstacles in recent years but most big gaming sites have found ways around them. Many US cards already refused on their own to pay gaming or porn sites.

Mostly this action is election grandstanding (less than a month ’til US midterm elections) and an attempt to draw attention of the voters away from the US’s deadly fiasco in Iraq and the US Congress’s child molestation cover ups … see how moral we are? We solicit teens for sex in the halls of Congress, but we aren’t going to let you play poker, nope that would be sinful.

Or, such is Dave’s US citizen opinion anyway.