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How Your Game Voting Turned Out

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-were-supposed-to-vote-them-out dept.

Democrats, the war, and taxes are all just sidelines to the real issue: gaming. We talked about game-related political issues on Tuesday, and now Chris Kohler at Game|Life has the run-down on how the game voting turned out. From the article: "In short, anything that could have gone wrong, did, no matter what your political stripe. Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton, co-authors of the Family Entertainment Protection Act, return to what will likely be a Democrat-controlled Senate. Meanwhile, two of the only House seats that Republicans managed to hold on to will be filled by Cliff Stearns and Fred Upton, each author of his own pet anti-games bill. (Stearns is the guy who wants to make the ESRB play through every video game in its entirety before rating it.) What this means for all of us is more wasted taxpayer money, as the ESA eats legislation like this for breakfast and we'll be footing their legal bills."

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  1. Summary wrong on election by PadRacerExtreme · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    two of the only House seats that Republicans managed to hold on to

    Wow is this wrong. I suspect the author meant the only two contested seats that Republicans held on to. The House is completely re-elected every two years. If this statement was true, then only two Republicans would have house seats!!

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  2. Re:scapegoat by sheldon · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    es, but they still have a scape goat if something goes wrong. They'll still blame Bush. Heck, Bush will be blamed for American short-comings for probably 2 presidential terms after him.


    Oh, you mean like how the Republicans are still blaming Carter and Clinton for everything wrong today? I've always loved the whole "Clinton is to blame" rationalization, especially for things that happened long after he left office. Did you know Bill Clinton was responsible for North Korea detonating a nuke? He was also responsible for Iran starting to process nuclear material in 2005.

    My favorite though is how this election loss was all the fault of the media for reporting bad news.

    Personally I still blame Herbert Hoover. But that's just me.