From the LP Newsletter

"This past weekend, the U.S. Senate, led by Republican politician Bill Frist, slipped last-minute legislation into a port security bill that essentially bans Internet gambling.

I'm not much a gambler myself and am only brave enough to hit the slots when in Vegas or Atlantic City. I've never gambled on the Internet NOT because I find it morally objectionable, but because I'm smart enough to know that I'll probably lose my shirt.

So if this doesn't affect my life, why am I so upset?

. . . Because Congress is, without question, restricting my freedom by telling me that I cannot spend my money a certain way or engage in a simple hobby within the privacy of my own home!

I am sick of Republicans and Democrats trying to set MY moral compass based upon THEIR interests.

Allow me to elaborate.

I am sick of corrupt politicians . . .

who take bribes from corrupt lobbyists for votes on Indian casinos;

who have a colleague behind bars for getting rich off of defense contractors;

who have another colleague who liberally sends sexually explicit messages to young boys who are, sadly, working to observe proper leadership;

who share leaders that actively cover up the activities of a sexual predator roaming the halls of Congress;

who vote to send our young men to fight and kill other young men over non-existent weapons of mass destruction;

who continue to place our young men in harm's way without even having defined what it would take to succeed in Iraq;

who spend our tax dollars at an alarming rate while, at the same time, take away our freedoms in bunches with Orwellian named programs such as the PATRIOT Act, Real ID Act, and (here's a new one) the Public Expression of Religion Act."

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I am told that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing while hoping for different results. Do we really want to continue to elect democratic and republican politicians who feel it is their responsibility to set our moral and economic standard?