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Originally Posted by panerd
Not to make this political but I thought the Obama administration was going to be very pragmatic on issues like this and drugs seeing as they have a major financial crisis and very shaky foreign issues. Seems like they are alienating a lot of their voters over an issue they really shouldn't be wasting time (and money) on.
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I don't think anyone cares enough one way or another to blow a lot of political capital on this outside of Barney Frank. Barney Frank is crusading for online poker which is great but there's just not nearly enough support in the rest of congress to actually push something through to repeal the UIGEA.
I should point out this is my very very high level far away view/understanding of things, I am not one of those that reads the 2+2 legal forum every day or spend all my time at the PPA website. Any time I do that its just depressing, so I follow from a distance, which may well mean there are some things I'm not aware of at work here. I would love to be wrong for sure.