The District’s controversial Internet gambling program got the Gray Lady treatment today.

This afternoon the D.C. Council overwhelmingly voted to repeal the District’s first-in-the-nation Internet gambling program.

It seems that Internet gambling in the District is going back to the drawing board.

Whether you want to call it “iGaming,” “Internet gambling” or “non-traditional games,” the District’s first-of-its-kind online gambling program faced withering criticism from members of the D.C. Council at a hearing yesterday.

* And of course, by a “large majority of people,” I mean “a large majority of Washington Times readers — a sizable number of which are people who were encouraged to stuff the ballot by people who don’t live in the District of Columbia, but really like playing online poker — approve of legalizing online poker.”

Two councilmembers want to repeal a law that would allow internet gambling in the District, kicking off what may be a contentious battle over a controversial initiative.