Elections over, time for payback.

Last month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was reelected to the United States Senate over Republican candidate Sharron Angle by a sound margin. Harry Reid is wasting no time continuing his agenda during the lame duck session before the new Congress is seated in January. I'm against a lame duck session of Congress for the simple reason that some of those politicians were just voted out of office but now they are there with no regard for the people. Even before Reid was back in DC, he was promising to use the lame duck session to further his political agenda. The federal government doesn't have a budget for the upcoming year and Reid is more concerned with paying back his political allies.
Rumor around Nevada is that the Hispanic vote may have put him over the top, others say the casino unions gave him the victory, either way, Reid is doing everything he can to payback those that propelled him to another six years in the Senate. United States government has no budget, no worries. United States taxpayers are facing the highest tax hike ever, not a problem. Let's hurry and pass the DREAM ACT and allow casinos to operate on line poker rooms.
The DREAM ACT is set to reward criminals by giving them free citizenship. The only catch is they have to be living here illegally, breaking the laws of the country they want to join. They don't even have be consistently living in this country, they can be given exceptions by the director of homeland security. So immigrants can illegally invade our country with their children and the punishment is free citizenship, free education, free welfare and even free medical care. Well it's not quite free, every tax payer has to cough up the money for the influx of approximately 2 million new "citizens". With our country already struggling financially, the additional burden will pile more debt, increasing the burden on every single American.
The Internet Poker and Game of Skill Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act of 2009 is another bill that Senator Reid is pushing during the lame duck session. Online gambling was basically outlawed in 2006 when Congress passed a law making it illegal to use credit cards for placing wagers. This new bill would allow casino operators to operate online poker rooms. Casino operators and a Senator for Nevada, is it possible there could be a conflict of interest? It's not like the casinos donated to Reid's reelection, oh wait they did. On line poker is a $25 billion a year industry, how nice of Reid to push a bill that would benefit his political contributors.


For a list of references, please refer to my examiner article of the same name.