Agreed. He should have left out the phone thing. Most people were fed up with having the peace of their homes disrupted several times each evening and all day Saturday and Sunday by callers who knew full well that their calls were unwelcome.
As much as I can sympathize with people who don’t want to hear from telemarketers, the problem is easy enough to fix without Big Nanny’s intervention. Caller ID, answering machines and boycotting firms that use phone solicitors are all effective.
A good barometer for any proposed law would be whether its advocates are willing to have it apply to themselves. If the do not call list is such a good idea, why did the politicians exempt themselves?