# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 477
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9521 "2025-01-01T05:01:28Z")
Not to mention, isn’t Congressional control of the budget in Article I of the Constitution? Wouldn’t their plan require an Amendment? Assuming of course they don’t go through the “Because we said so!” method… ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9522 "2025-01-01T05:20:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > it’s just another sign of how Congress is going to accomplish absolutely nothing for as long as these chucklefucks are in “charge”. _Absolutely_ nothing, while rough sledding, might not be the worst possible scenario. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9523 "2025-01-01T07:35:51Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Not to mention, isn’t Congressional control of the budget in Article I of the Constitution? What makes you think they give a flying whatever–or even know–what the constitution says? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9524 "2025-01-01T08:18:52Z")
There’s nothing stopping the Republicans from asking Trump how to vote, then voting that way. Nothing legally anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9525 "2025-01-01T19:50:34Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Not to mention, isn’t Congressional control of the budget in Article I of the Constitution? Wouldn’t their plan require an Amendment? That’s what I was thinking, so I went to the Constitution for reference. Article 1 does say all legislative power is vested in Congress. A1 Section 7 says "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; " Curiously, that is for raising revenue explicitly, not spending. Section 8 gives Congress the power to tax, to pay debts, to provide for Defense and General Welfare of the US. Also regulate commerce, coin money, and borrow money. Since the budget is legislation to allocate money to provide for defense and general welfare, or would seem it is explicitly an enumerated power of Congress. But the President proposes a budget every year. Presumably, this is to provide input from agencies on their projected operating expenses. There is nothing that prevents Congress from taking the proposed budget as-is, rather than the typical massage of the various amounts to fit their own agendas. But to bypass Congress performing an authorization step would require an Amendment. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9526 "2025-01-01T21:59:01Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > It’s another sign they don’t expect Democrats to ever win again. > > Controlling the budget is one of Congress’s controls over the President. Imagine a President who wants to shift half of the military budget to social programs. Or fund Ukraine twice the expenditure of Medicare. I’m quite surprised that the first line of the GOP Trump-worshipping bill isn’t > [@](#): > > _A dictator needs a DUMA and we want ours to have the DUMA-iest!_ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9527 "2025-01-01T22:13:49Z")
What a bunch of DUMAsses. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9528 "2025-01-01T22:18:30Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > so I went to the Constitution for reference The _ **what** _, now? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9529 "2025-01-01T22:32:05Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > What a bunch of DUMAsses. Wins the 🏆! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9530 "2025-01-01T22:35:58Z")
That thing the framers wiped their butts with, then enshrined for all posterity. That thing the SC claims to be interpreting directly, but ignore when it suits them. That thing Conservatives cherish except when it is inconvenient. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9531 "2025-01-02T09:07:15Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > That thing Conservatives cherish except when it is inconvenient. Which is amazing when you consider the conservative constitution is only half a sentence long. …the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9532 "2025-01-02T10:11:57Z")
You left out all the modifiers to “people”? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9533 "2025-01-02T15:38:35Z")
He just left out one word before people: “right”. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9534 "2025-01-02T16:22:28Z")
True, the definition has changed over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9535 "2025-01-03T03:28:33Z")
Steve Scalise says the Bourbon St attack happened because of woke. > **[GOP House majority leader suggests DEI to blame for New Orleans attack](https://www.rawstory.com/new-orleans-2670731483/)** > > House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) created another explanation for why authorities were unable to thwart the New Year’s Day carnage in New Orleans: diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives.In the wake of the bloody attack on New... ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9536 "2025-01-04T01:24:43Z")
President Baby is throwing a tantrum because the national period of mourning for Jimmy Carter is going to be happening during his big party when everyone is supposed to be paying attention to him. > **['Nobody wants to see this!' Trump vents fury over flags being half-staff for...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-carter-flags/)** > > President-elect Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Friday to complain that the American flag will be flown at half-staff for his inauguration due to the period of mourning for the recently deceased former President Jimmy Carter.In the... ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9537 "2025-01-04T01:57:05Z")
Die mad about it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9538 "2025-01-04T02:10:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > President Baby is throwing a tantrum because the national period of mourning for Jimmy Carter is going to be happening during his big party when everyone is supposed to be paying attention to him. Shove one of those flag poles up his ass, all the way to the flag halfway down it, and it won’t look like it’s at half mast anymore. (Just kidding, I would never desecrate a flag like Trump would.) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r4gNpBpsk70/hqdefault.jpg) ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r4gNpBpsk70/hqdefault.jpg) ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9539 "2025-01-04T02:37:02Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > (Just kidding, I would never desecrate a flag like Trump would.) Yeah, that twerp ain’t shy at all when it comes to anything untoward and un-American. Seriously, how the fuck does someone who dry humps an American flag on stage rewarded for that misbehavior? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9540 "2025-01-04T03:15:58Z")
The America-hating fuckstick sez: > [@The America-hating fuckstick](#): > > The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration,” “Giddy?” Well, to be honest, I hadn’t given it much thought. But now that you’ve brought it up, I’m joining every citizen who DOESN’T hate America in finding this circumstance to be satisfactory. President Carter has, ironically, performed one final service for his country. (Hey, President Biden, is it too late to declare a 1483 -day period of mourning? Maybe flying the flag upside-down for the final 1461 days?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=476) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=478)