Hi all,
I will be writing a biweekly op-ed for http://www.biggovernment.com. I hope you'll find them interesting. The first one is online now, at http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/10/...d-online-poker.
In my opinion, we need to change public opinion to win, so I hope you'll all support things like this. If you do Digg, Twitter, post a comment (on either Digg or biggovernment.com), please reply with "Dugg", "Twittered", etc. to encourage others.
Thanks!
Rich
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Digg: http://digg.com/political_opinion/BigGovernment_com_The_GOP_s_Bad_Bet_Against_Online_Poker
Twitter --> go to http://www.twitter.com and cut-and-paste the following:
RT @TheEngineer2008: BigGovernment.com: The GOP's Bad Bet Against Online Poker: http://digg.com/d319dPa #digguser #nation #tcot #tlot #c4l
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Raising on Aces and Eights: The GOP’s Bad Bet Against Poker
by Rich Muny
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/10/...d-online-poker
The GOP has historically been the party of limited government and personal responsibility. President Ronald Reagan said it best in his frequent citations of Thomas Paine’s famous axiom – “the government governs best that governs least.” Unfortunately, the party moved away from the limited government conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan during the George W. Bush Administration. In fact, the 2008 Republican Party Platform regrettably went so far as to advocate a federal prohibition of online poker.
Poker is not a crime, nor should it be. Millions of Americans – including the president and many in Congress – play the game at their kitchen tables, on the Internet, and at their local card rooms. It is a great American pastime. During that failed era of big government “conservatism”, however, some big government social conservative groups like Focus on the Family wished to use the power of the federal government to stop Americans from playing online poker in their own homes........