# Stupid liberal idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086 "2011-04-20T15:35:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 81
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1601 "2014-02-13T14:45:06Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > It’ll probably grow a bit once he’s sentenced. But really, mayors just aren’t that interesting. Between Bud Dwyer and Marion Barry and Kwame Kilpatrick you have to do something really special to make the news now - like Rob Ford. Or Bob Filner. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1602 "2014-02-19T17:21:42Z")
[Kansas Lawmaker Wants To Allow Teachers To Spank Kids Even More](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kansas-lawmaker-gain-finney-teachers-spanking) > [@](#): > > A bill proposed by state Rep. Gail Finney (D) would define corporal punishment as “up to ten forceful applications in succession of a bare, open-hand palm against the clothed buttocks of a child” and would permit “reasonable force” to restrain the children. > > The legislation also allows parents, caregivers or school personnel to strike kids hard enough that “redness or bruising may occur on the tender skin of a child as a result.” Case law will turn on whether redness or bruising would have occurred on an adult with more substantial skin. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1603 "2014-02-19T17:34:39Z")
Yeah, but the Republican proposal was to let the teachers shoot them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1604 "2014-02-19T17:43:08Z")
Aka the “Stand Your Playground” bill. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1605 "2014-02-19T17:46:08Z")
_applause_ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1606 "2014-02-19T17:57:57Z")
You lay a hand on my baby and I’ll lay a hand on you! And you will be damned lucky if I get to you first, his Mom won’t leave enough scraps to sew back together! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1607 "2014-02-19T17:59:25Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > [Kansas Lawmaker Wants To Allow Teachers To Spank Kids Even More](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kansas-lawmaker-gain-finney-teachers-spanking) Although from a dem, isn’t this an incredibly conservative idea, in the sense of adhering to traditional methods without regard to modern sensibilities? By contrast, a stupid liberal idea would the opposite extreme, like never allowing a teacher to say anything negative to a misbehaving kid no matter what heinous thing he or she does. > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Aka the “Stand Your Playground” bill. Very nice. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1608 "2014-02-19T18:39:16Z")
Detention with extreme prejudice. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1609 "2014-02-19T18:50:29Z")
They send one of ours to the nurse, we send one of theirs to the _morgue_! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1610 "2014-02-19T19:01:50Z")
Crabapple is a pimp, but I didn’t know until this day that it was Chalmers all along. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1611 "2014-03-26T19:22:37Z")
What is with the North Carolina Democratic Party? Jim Black, Mike Easley, and now [Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon](http://www.wbtv.com/story/25080192/charlotte-mayor-patrick-cannon-arrested-by-fbi-on-federal-corruption-charges)? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1612 "2014-03-26T19:40:49Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > What is with the North Carolina Democratic Party? Jim Black, Mike Easley, and now [Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon](http://www.wbtv.com/story/25080192/charlotte-mayor-patrick-cannon-arrested-by-fbi-on-federal-corruption-charges)? Perhaps Carolina brings out the corruption in everyone. Kinda like Cook County. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1613 "2014-03-26T19:42:57Z")
He may be a stupid/corrupt Democrat, and I hope he goes down in flames…but graft isn’t really a Liberal idea. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1614 "2014-03-26T19:51:02Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > He may be a stupid/corrupt Democrat, and I hope he goes down in flames…but graft isn’t really a Liberal idea. S’more of a New Jersey idea, really, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1615 "2014-04-02T13:47:07Z")
San Fran Nan rides the short bus again. > [@](#): > > Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi emerged into the sunlight April 1 to applaud a rush of sign-ups for Obamacare, and immediately described it as the long-sought goal of Gen. George Washington and the nation’s Founding Fathers in 1787. > > “It is really so heart warming for those of us who worked so hard [to make sure] many more people in our country would have access to healthcare,” she told reporters at the stakeout position just outside the West Wing portico. > > “There are those critics, bumps in the road, but they’ve only been turbulence. They have not been an obstacle to the American people having healthier life that our that our founders wanted for them,” she said. > Those founders wanted “life — a healthier life — liberty and the freedom to pursue their happiness, not [be] job-locked, but having benefits that having health-care policies that are portable, they could be self-employed, be a photographer — they could start their own business, they could change jobs, they could reach their aspirations,” she declared. Really, Nancy? George Washington wanted Obamacare? Pelosi is the role model for the statement: you can’t fix stupid, but you can keep electing it to Congress. > **[George Washington wanted Obamacare, Pelosi says \[VIDEO\]](https://dailycaller.com/2014/04/01/george-washington-voted-for-obamacare-pelosi-says/)** > > George Washington apparently wanted gov't funded contraceptives ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1616 "2014-04-02T13:49:06Z")
**Humpy** , do you ever even fucking \*read \*what you cite? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1617 "2014-04-02T13:49:40Z")
Ever heard the phrase “promote the general welfare,” dipshit? You are living proof you can’t fix stupid. Now it’s just embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1618 "2014-04-02T13:51:19Z")
Didja ever notice that the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill is unfinished? Know what that stands for? Didja even know that “founding” does not mean “completing”? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1619 "2014-04-02T13:57:56Z")
Meaningless rhetorical blather. On the scale of “things politicians have said the Founding Fathers are for” this raises a small blip, particularly next to the usual “The Founding Fathers wanted a Christian nation” idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1620 "2014-04-02T14:09:09Z")
I did kind of get a chuckle out of the Founders wanting people to be photographers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=82)