# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018 "2022-02-07T00:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 472
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9427 "2023-05-15T05:36:18Z")
Montana governor [Greg Gianforte](https://montanafreepress.org/2023/05/12/gianforte-signs-climate-change-analysis-ban-into-law/) has signed a bill that bars the state from considering climate impacts in its analysis of large projects such as coal mines and power plants. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9428 "2023-05-15T11:02:48Z")
The “Let them die” bill. > **[Florida bill protecting ‘conscience’ allows doctors to deny treatment](https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/05/01/florida-doctor-medical-conscience-lawsuit-protection/)** > > The bill also allows insurance companies not to cover procedures if it goes against their stated moral or religious guidelines. I’m curious if any individual doctor can decide for themselves to refuse to treat someone or if it’ll need to be voted on by a group of people, a ‘death panel’, if you will. Also, while I’m doubting it would play out like, based on the wording, they probably left a loophole that would allow, for example, a liberal doctor to refuse to treat a republican patient. If a doctor has an ethical problem with a patient because because he’s wearing a skirt, another doctor could just as well have an ethical problem with a patent because he’s wearing a MAGA hat. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9429 "2023-05-15T11:34:25Z")
I’ve gotta get my dad outta Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9430 "2023-05-15T11:52:36Z")
> [@](#): > > The bill also allows insurance companies not to cover procedures if it goes against their stated moral or religious guidelines. I’m somewhat intrigued by this idea of an insurance company having a religion. Do insurance companies go to heaven when they die? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9431 "2023-05-15T11:56:32Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Do insurance companies go to heaven when they die? My insurance company requires a pre-authorization every time I need to refill my mood stabilizer. So no. They go to hell when they die. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9432 "2023-05-15T12:57:51Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’m curious if any individual doctor can decide for themselves to refuse to treat someone or if it’ll need to be voted on by a group of people, a ‘death panel’, if you will. I thought the 'pubbies believed that’s what “Obamacare” consisted of? (Or was it something under Clinton? The far right has far too many paranoias for me to keep up.) > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Do insurance companies go to heaven when they die? No. They give _you_ Hell, then you die. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9433 "2023-05-15T13:02:38Z")
If only Bricker was here to explain to us how this is . . . FREEDOM!!! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9434 "2023-05-15T14:29:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I thought the 'pubbies believed that’s what “Obamacare” consisted of? (Or was it something under Clinton? The far right has far too many paranoias for me to keep up.) I was going for an ‘every accusation’ thing. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9435 "2023-05-15T14:48:15Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > The bill also allows insurance companies not to cover procedures if it goes against their stated moral or religious guidelines. > > I’m somewhat intrigued by this idea of an insurance company having a religion. Do insurance companies go to heaven when they die? I think the religious guidelines of the insurance company are along the lines of “Thy profits must be above all else” “Thou shalt not give payment for a procedure if it will cost us too much” “The people are unto us as sheep, who must be fleeced” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9436 "2023-05-15T16:41:29Z")
Is this simply an extension of the “we have proof, we’ll show you…later, maybe, but we have it and you should just assume it’s correct and act on it anyway” statement that they give anytime anyone asks them for proof of, well, anything? > **[GOP Oversight Chair Says He’s Lost Track of His Biden Corruption Informant](https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-james-comer-says-hes-lost-track-of-his-top-biden-informant)** > > Rep. James Comer explained that “these informants are kind of in the spy business,” so it was hardly a surprise that the unnamed individual had disappeared. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9437 "2023-05-15T16:50:35Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I was going for an ‘every accusation’ thing. They were just mad they didn’t think of it first. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9438 "2023-05-15T17:09:17Z")
God, this story is even stupider than the headline suggests… > “Well, unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant,” the Kentucky representative told host Maria Bartiromo. “We’re hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant. The whistleblower is very credible.” So, they _ **don’t even know who “the informant” is?** _ They’re trying to take down the President of the United States with “I know a guy who knows a guy…” And of course, there’s never a guy. I can’t roll my eyes hard enough for this nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9439 "2023-05-15T17:15:36Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Is this simply an extension of the “we have proof, we’ll show you…later, maybe, but we have it and you should just assume it’s correct and act on it anyway” statement that they give anytime anyone asks them for proof of, well, anything? Fox News is spinning it as: “The Biden informant has gone missing, and this is very suspicious. Has Biden himself done something to this person? People are asking questions.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9440 "2023-05-15T17:19:36Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > God, this story is even stupider than the headline suggests… > > > “Well, unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant,” the Kentucky representative told host Maria Bartiromo. “We’re hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant. The whistleblower is very credible.” > > So, they _ **don’t even know who “the informant” is?** _ > > They’re trying to take down the President of the United States with “I know a guy who knows a guy…” And of course, there’s never a guy. > > **I can’t roll my eyes hard enough for this nonsense.** - And the gullible are lapping it up even harder. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9441 "2023-05-15T17:24:13Z")
“Oh, I have an informant. He’s the best informant. You wouldn’t know him, though. He’s from Canada.” ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9442 "2023-05-15T17:32:54Z")
Don’t you hate it when you go to a hearing to expose the President’s criminal activity and you left your informant in your other pants? Yeah, you can turn around to get him, but you already got on the Beltway… I’ll just bring him next time. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9443 "2023-05-15T17:35:43Z")
Kansas ‘pastor’ wants to turn my state into a conservative sanctuary. > **[Revealed: Republicans' divine plan to turn Kansas into 'conservative sanctuary'](https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-revel-in-divine-plan-to-turn-kansas-into-conservative-sanctuary/)** > > TOPEKA — Adam Peters laced his sermon for Reno County Republicans with conspiracy theories about a liberal plot to turn their children against them, LGBTQ-friendly church pastors who signed a contract with Satan, the ubiquitous travesty of critical... > “If you can make it hostile to that group of people, that small sliver of society, and have them move elsewhere, that does a huge amount to shut this down,” Peters said. “It’s both sides of it: You need to attract the good people here, and you also need to make it clear to the bad people, this isn’t gonna go well for you.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9444 "2023-05-15T17:36:27Z")
[Groucho] “And how that informant got in my pants, I’ll never know.” _waggles eyebrows_ [/Groucho] ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9445 "2023-05-15T17:47:13Z")
It gets even better. Now they want the FBI to investigate and want to threaten their funding until they find him. _Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., confirmed GOP officials still could not “track down” the key witness as of Monday morning, telling FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo that the federal agencies such as the FBI and DOJ have “turned a blind eye” to both the missing informant and the Biden family’s alleged corruption._ _“The telling thing about this is that our Federal Bureau of Investigation and our Justice Department have basically just turned a blind eye to all of this and now it’s come down to the point where speaker McCarthy has to have a one-on-one meeting with Director Wray over the way that they’ve handled this and bungled this thing from the start,” the Oversight Committee member and Foreign Affairs Committee member said on “Mornings with Maria.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9446 "2023-05-15T17:51:25Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _and now it’s come down to the point where speaker McCarthy has to have a one-on-one meeting with Director Wray over the way that they’ve handled this and bungled this thing from the start,”_ God, I would love to have seen that meeting. How many different ways can you politely say, “Sir, that’s complete bullshit”, before you just lose it and start yelling at these idiots? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=471) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=473)