Frist using DoD bill to push gambling ban?Tenn. Senator and potential Presidential hopeful Bill Frist is reportedly trying to slip an internet gambling ban onto a compromise authorization bill for the DoD. Perhaps this makes some convoluted logical sense in protecting our soldiers from the perils of gambling, but it sounds like the sort of nanny-state intervention in socially conservative issues for which some Republicans have an unfortunate double standard. As the majority leader of the Party that supposedly rejects big, invasive government and respects individual accountability, Senator Frist seems to be simply pandering to social conservatives and doing it in an unfortunately typical way. Rather than having an open debate and straight up vote on this issue, he’s using his “leadership” position to slide it onto an unrelated, but highly passable bill. Let’s see a return to traditional conservative Republican values of smaller government and less of this faux conservatism that uses government to legislate morality. Michael Previous: Time for Persian Détente? -- Next: President’s Language Echoes Tyrant’s |
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