bigfan wrote:
Funny thing that the DOJ takes the time to bust these guys and how much did that cost, but to license it which would have made billions and probably would have caught this issue a long time ago, that's a bad idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was the Republican majority House, Republican Senate and Pres. Bush who started this with that 2005 law. And plenty of Ds supported it too. The DOJ now is just carrying out what is the law that was passed then. There has been a bill introduced in the last two sessions of Congress (by Barney Frank) and there are some Ds that would support it, but not enough to get such a law passed. Name me one Republican who would vote for a law legalizing sports gambling in any form, let alone the 100 or more that would be needed to get it passed through the House. I wrote Cong. Mark Kirk about this in 05. He responded that offshore gambling was a front for money-laundering terrorists. With that kind of make believe nonsense, there is little hope.