June 30th, 2008
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Two wings of the Republican Party engaged in political combat on Wednesday, June 25th over an important question of regulation of the financial sector of our economy. The result was about as one-sided as it could be - the social/religious conservatives who believe that the main function of government should be to impose various personal behavioral choices on individuals beat those whose main goal is loosening what they believe to be inefficient restrictions on the free market economy by better than 9 to 1.
The subject was the bill passed - during a Republican Congress - that puts tighter regulation of gambling on the Internet and does it by imposing on banks, credit unions and other financial institutions the job of policing this particular effort at prohibition.
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Rep. Barney Frank: Social Conservatives Still In Charge of Republican Party - Politics on The Huffington Post
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