Unbelievable!!

From The Associate Press, December 4, 2010:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing behind the scenes for lame-duck legislation that would allow poker games over the Internet but restrict initial licenses to casinos and racetrack operators that have been in businesses at least five years.

Some of the biggest casino operators in Reid's home state of Nevada are eager to get a piece of the online gambling industry, which generates an estimated $5 billion a year for offshore operators.

Unbelievable!  The Senate hasn't funded the government yet for the coming year, nor settled the question of the upcoming tax increases as the Bush-era tax cuts expire, nor dealt with the still moribund jobs market or the upcoming end of unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed, nor discussed approving the START treaty with Russia - and Senator Reid is wasting time trying to get an internet gambling bill through the lame-duck Congress.