Probably too late, but what the hell, I had 10 minutes to kill.

Dr. Frist:

Following the events of today, I have gone from a staunch conservative to embarrasment over the state of the party I have held an allegiance to for years. You are as much a hypocrite as the idiots in the left. Who are you that I need your "protection" from "the danger of gambling?" This ridiculous bill (that you had to sneak in like a snake) will attempt to ruin the evergrowing popularity of poker and a poker community in the United Sates that has been growing exponentially in recent years. The whole notion of being a Republican is to lessen government involvement in people's personal lives. I consider myself the "everyday American." I have yet to meet ONE person who ever voiced concern over online poker. It is a mystery who you trying to appease here. Mr. Frist, you have become the embodiment of Ellsworth Toohey-all power, no "talent."

People all over the world are playing poker, talking about poker, etc....poker players are a huge community numbering in the tens of millions in the US alone. No other country feels the need to baby their citizens this way. In fact, the growth of poker in in other countries can only be described as astonishing and I can think of no other thing so engrained in American tradition that is so accepted in countries abroad.

The fact remains that poker is a game of skill, not chance (this im sure you know because I refuse to believe that you dont sit down on occasion to play a hand, like millions of people do everyday.) I am sure you have heard the stories that President Nixon financed his first run for public office with the poker winnings he amassed in the military and regularly held poker games while president. Your hyprocracy only comes to light more when, for some inexplicable reason, the Act makes exemptions for lottery and horceracing, PURE WAGERS OF CHANCE.

I suspect you know, however, that the chances of online poker being completely eradicated are very slim. Somone will find a loophole somewhere, and we in the poker community will continue to to what we want, not out of obstinance but the basic need to be free to do whatever the hell pleases us at any given moment as long as noone gets hurt in the process.

So while I know you must be fretting over the fact that your dear colleague has been caught trying to solicit sex from a sixteen year old boy, please keep in mind that you have alienated this voter and millions like me.

Amen, it's never too late to tell him he's a douche. Vote Libertarian!

not a bad letter but i do have one problem with it..."The whole notion of being a Republican is to lessen government involvement in people's personal lives." this is not true at all. republicans do not want government involved in businesses and the economy. they are notorious for limiting personal rights like gay marriage bans and television censorship for example. democrats are the ones who want less government involment in personal rights issues.

dont even get me started

lol

First off, you might consider addressing this to "Senator Frist"

i think the proper way is the honorable senator frist

I wish I could say I am surprised by these reponses but im not.. Every thread on this site seems to denegrate into some childish pissing match, Not that it matters, Senator Frist is a doctor. Anyway, keep discussing how he should be addressed, its really important.

He'll get it...

"democrats are the ones who want less government involment in personal rights issues". (what planet r u from???)

SAVE THE BABY WHALES
KILL THE BABY HUMANS
VOTE DEMOCRAT

Maybe now (too little too late) everyone will write their con-men & reps.

Make a thread and put a sticky on it with his email address, So we all can write him and tell our thoughts.

I don't know if i've mentioned this before, but VOTE LIBERTARIAN. limited goverment in all aspects- which is exactly what us degenerate gamblers want anyway.

That is the point rp. Today's Republicans are not even close to Barry Goldwater's vision for the Republican party. Party's agenda's change over time. Today's Republican Party's agenda is not for less government. It is for more religion in government and limiting personal rights. So no that statement is not false. He did not say what conservatives believe in , but what Republicans believe in, which you basically admitted is true today.

The whole notion of being a Republican is to lessen government involvement in people's personal lives.

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if by "people's personal lives" you mean "big business" then yaaaa maybe.

LongIslander Said:

"The whole notion of being a Republican is to lessen government involvement in people's personal lives."

I know this has already been commented on but I just can't pass on it. If this is what you've been led to believe about the Grand Ol' party, you've been sadly misinformed. The Republican party wants nothing more than to get more involved in the personal lives of American citizens. They're pro-life, anti-gay, and recent opposition to stem-cell research are less than mild examples of their desire to limit our personal choices. Their strong christian conservative backing would leave them if they didn't take hard line stances on such issues.

That all being said, none of these views are as disconcerting to me as supporting/engineering such a misguided war as we are presently in. Instead of spending the hundreds of billions we have to essential blow up a lot of concrete, we could have built better schools, given money to first responders, feed the poor, or just plain pay of the deficit... oops.

zach

"Kll baby humans"?? WTF I would like to see you teach an aborted fetus how to walk.

You are anti abortion, but I'm sure you support sending husbands, fathers, wives, and mothers with established lives to Iraq to be killed in a hopeless war.