# Republicans attempt to rape Healthcare Reform **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266 "2011-01-20T00:19:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/41 "2011-01-20T19:10:36Z")
Not only will it not pass in the Senate, it won’t even get _voted_ on. It’s just a stunt and it makes the Republicans look stupid. The next step is their attempt to defund it, which is a little more threatening. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/42 "2011-01-20T23:40:30Z")
Why should I trust anyone in Congress or the President? They say what they need to get elected then pretend they never said it. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/43 "2011-01-21T00:06:52Z")
> [@Xan](#): > > Why should I trust anyone in Congress or the President? They say what they need to get elected then pretend they never said it. Here ya go: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lMQHVzSPTec/hqdefault.jpg "Ice-T- Shut Up, Be Happy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMQHVzSPTec) This should appeal to your boundless cynicism. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/44 "2011-01-21T12:39:04Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84IWcivIo2E) Here. This should burn your fascination with rape out of your skull. (SFW video. Questionably SFW audio: the word rape.) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/45 "2011-01-21T16:32:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Well, you see, Norm, when a Republican tries to bugger a piece of legislation, then what you got there is your _statutory_ rape… Actually, that’s stationery rape. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/46 "2011-01-21T16:43:34Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > It’s a publicity stunt. I can’t imagine that there are more than five or six people in the entire country that don’t realize it’s nothing but a publicity stunt. Just like the title of this thread is a publicity stunt… You, my friend, have far more faith in the people of our country than I do. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/47 "2011-01-21T17:26:09Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Hey, that exactly what the Republicans are doing to Texas voting districts (again). From [Ben Sargent](http://www.texasobserver.org/loonstarstate/item/17243-texas-house-chamber), courtesy of The Texas Observer. (And thanks for the clarification on canola/rapeseed.) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/48 "2011-01-21T17:31:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > His profile calls him a 24-y.o. who joined in 2001, so he could be a 34-year old or a guy who was fourteen when he joined. > > Presuming anything in his profile has a one-to-one relationship with reality. To paraphrase William Munny: “Chonological age has nothin’ to do with it.” ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/49 "2011-01-21T17:35:02Z")
You said rape twice. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/50 "2011-01-21T17:37:11Z")
The Republicans are taking the Health Care Reform bill like the monkey took the milkmaid… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/51 "2011-01-22T16:14:57Z")
> [@sh1bu1](#): > > Will the repeal the repeal bill be called the “Stop Killing of Fuzzy Kittens By Republicans That Hate NASCAR” bill? Well, NASCAR has been turning to the left for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/52 "2011-01-23T19:43:55Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Rape oil has been renamed Canola oil. It’s not a joke. Have you any idea of the time frame in which Pearl Buck wrote and published? It wasn’t meant as a joke but I should have expected some sort of knee jerk reaction anyway. And I wasn’t aware that canola oil was ever called rape oil; I’ve never known what the rape plant was used for, not having encountered it anywhere in real life. I wonder if China has renamed the plant in the interest of conforming to PC in the USA? ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/53 "2011-01-23T20:26:25Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Republicans attempt to rape Healthcare Reform I think what you meant to type is, “Republicans Attempt to Defenestrate Healthcare Reform” ---
**Author:** ![AshenLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@AshenLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AshenLady)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/54 "2011-01-23T21:40:23Z")
Republicans are all shills for big business, nothing more. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/55 "2011-01-25T00:51:22Z")
This just from Cartoon Land! > [@AshenLady](#): > > Republicans are all shills for big business, nothing more. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/56 "2011-01-25T12:43:05Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > This just from Cartoon Land! Here’s _ **real world** _ video of [Sarah Palin and her Death-Gun being struck on the head by an Angry Bird.](http://www.angryblacklady.com/2011/01/18/sarah-palin-vs-angry-birds/) Pretty compelling reason to rape the Obamacare that was shoved down your throat, huh? . ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/57 "2011-01-25T15:19:44Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I think what you meant to type is, > “Republicans Attempt to Defenestrate Healthcare Reform” The 'pubs are meddling with Bohemian healthcare now? > [@Squink](#): > > Here’s _ **real world** _ video of [Sarah Palin and her Death-Gun being struck on the head by an Angry Bird.](http://www.angryblacklady.com/2011/01/18/sarah-palin-vs-angry-birds/) > Pretty compelling reason to rape the Obamacare that was shoved down your throat, huh? Meh, she’ll just shuffle off to Canada for the free healthcare just like she did when she was a kid. She’s an indefensible twat, the very reference to whom sullies the already limited grace of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/58 "2011-01-25T15:33:15Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > The 'pubs are meddling with Bohemian healthcare now? I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me, He’s just a poor boy, with no healthcare. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/59 "2011-01-25T16:26:49Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > It seems the subject of rape is coming up more and more often on the board. I think that a lot of 'dopers have, um, some real issues that they seriously need to work out. Shut up and grab your ankles. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266/60 "2011-01-25T17:04:44Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > [Quote=AshenLady] > > Republicans are all shills for big business, nothing more. This just from Cartoon Land! [/QUOTE] That is unfair. The overwhelming majority are _unwitting tools_ of big business. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-attempt-to-rape-healthcare-reform/568266.md?page=2)