# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/181 "2009-05-13T14:55:35Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > This is just the break the McCain campaign was waiting for. Isn’t Dijom from, like, France or something? Cool. Slam the Democrats, the liberals AND the French. I’m not a joke writer, but there has to be something we can work with there. 😃 ---
**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:** [May 13, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/182 "2009-05-13T15:00:59Z")
Every day I think someday I will wake up and read about one of these numb-nuts heads actually exploding. They have so much rage built up, and restricting their homosexual practices to public restrooms can only make it worsse. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/183 "2009-05-13T15:03:12Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Let’s run it through ‘a dynamic, forward-looking organization that will amplify the common-sense and wisdom of our fellow citizens through a grassroots dialogue with Republican leaders’, and see what pops out the other end. > Surely the [National Council for a New America](http://republicanwhip.house.gov/newsroom/2009/04/national-council-for-a-new-america-formed.html) will save us all. Is it just me, or did their entire “platform” look like just a mountain of boilerplated jibberish? ---
**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:** [May 13, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/184 "2009-05-13T15:16:04Z")
Actually, it sounds like a _precis_ of a Democratic campaign platform. Access to healthcare for all Americans. Job creation. Equal opportunity for education and affordable secondary education. It’s a rhetorical towel toss. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/185 "2009-05-13T15:56:29Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Actually, it sounds like a _precis_ of a Democratic campaign platform. > > Access to healthcare for all Americans. Job creation. Equal opportunity for education and affordable secondary education. > > It’s a rhetorical towel toss. You folks have missed the news. This is the group that started the “listening session” tour to get input from “normal Americans”. Then Limbaugh trashed that idea, saying they need to do “teaching sessions” instead. Now Cantor has repudiated the “listening” idea – interesting in that the whole thing was supposed to be non-partisan, but that was a sham from day one. Since the Republicans have decided they don’t need any more input, I’m pretty sure this organization is going to die a quiet death. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/186 "2009-05-13T17:39:55Z")
I was thinking the “National Council for a New America” already existed; we just refer to it as “the last election”. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/187 "2009-05-13T18:03:08Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I was thinking the “National Council for a New America” already existed; we just refer to it as “the last election”. Nope, brand new. From the link in post 183: > [@](#): > > House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) today issued the following statement upon releasing a letter announcing the formation of the National Council for a New America, a forward-looking, grassroots caucus intended to bring together Congressional leaders with a national panel of experts… > > **[From the letter]** > > …However, this is not a Republican-only forum. While we will be guided by our principles of freedom and security, we will seek to include more than just our ideas. This forum will include a wide open policy debate that every American can feel free to participate in. We do this not just to offer an alternative point of view or to be disagreeable. Story was written on April 30. IIRC about the corverage of the first “listening session”, there were several subject areas that were declared off-limits in advance, such as abortion. So even before Rush brought them out to the woodshed, they were already not fulfilling the promises of their, er, founding document. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/188 "2009-05-13T19:27:52Z")
I was being humorous. Or perhaps not. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/189 "2009-05-13T19:35:46Z")
:smack: I’m bad about recognizing any sarcasm but my own. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/190 "2009-05-13T22:26:22Z")
sooo… that means you’re good at it? Am I doing this right? /is this thing on? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/191 "2009-05-13T23:44:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You folks have missed the news. This is the group that started the “listening session” tour to get input from “normal Americans”. Then Limbaugh trashed that idea, saying they need to do “teaching sessions” instead. Now Cantor has repudiated the “listening” idea – interesting in that the whole thing was supposed to be non-partisan, but that was a sham from day one. > > Since the Republicans have decided they don’t need any more input, I’m pretty sure this organization is going to die a quiet death. Maybe when they listened (that’s a pretty good joke right there) they didn’t like what they heard? As far as teaching, meh. Limbaugh can’t teach me anything. He’d have to know something first, and that would be a “first” for him. Really. What can he teach me? Patriotism? I have my honorable discharge, he had a boil on his ass. I work in government, and worked “defense” in the private sector. Clean living? I’m not the one strung out on pills. Honesty? Ummm don’t think so. Loyalty to Fearless Leader? He used to preach that UNTIL his boy wan’t in charge anymore so that’s a wash too. I don’t feel like going through a huge giant list right now, so that’s enough. No, nothing to see there. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/192 "2009-05-14T00:09:34Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You folks have missed the news. This is the group that started the “listening session” tour to get input from “normal Americans”. Then Limbaugh trashed that idea, saying they need to do “teaching sessions” instead. Now Cantor has repudiated the “listening” idea – interesting in that the whole thing was supposed to be non-partisan, but that was a sham from day one. Can we take up a collection to hire a bodyguard for Rush? if anything happens to that guy, the Republicans might actually act on such radical ideas as listening to voters, and then where would we be? Or maybe not. Remember last year when the Republicans were so upset about how the American public refused to listen to their insistence that everyone was doing well in the great Bush economy? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/193 "2009-05-14T00:21:56Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Can we take up a collection to hire a bodyguard for Rush… Not likely anybody will kill Rush before he does. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/194 "2009-05-14T19:56:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > That is the Stupid Republican Idea of the Century. Actually, it might just be the Stupid Idea of the Century. > > I might write to the DNC and suggest that they pass a resolution redesignating the Republican Party as the Republican Douchebag Party. That’s good, but I move that the DNC rename the Republicans to “Fucking Babies”. I believe that MSNBC would technically be obliged to use the new name, and it might spread all over the mainstream media. “Congressional Democrats today passed sweeping health care reform in spite of the Fucking Babies in congress voting nearly unanimously against the wildly popular bill, claiming that nobody had listened to their ideas.” ---
**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:** [May 14, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/195 "2009-05-14T20:08:15Z")
“…Governor Charlie Crist (FB-FL) today signed into law the…” ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/196 "2009-05-14T20:30:11Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](#): > > “Congressional Democrats today passed sweeping health care reform in spite of the Fucking Babies in congress voting nearly unanimously against the wildly popular bill, claiming that nobody had listened to their ideas.” Hah! I love it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/197 "2009-05-14T21:30:08Z")
I thought the Republican Party was rebranded the, “Sorry, Rush” party. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/198 "2009-05-14T21:31:35Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > I thought the Republican Party was rebranded the, “Sorry, Rush” party. Pending. Rush hasn’t granted permission for them to use his name yet. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/199 "2009-05-15T03:20:45Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Pending. Rush hasn’t granted permission for them to use his name yet. Yeh, he’s too busy sneering at John McCain’s 97-year-old mother and telling her to get out of his Republican Party. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/200 "2009-05-15T05:40:23Z")
Looks like the traitors that make up the Republican Party succeeded in getting the DHS report on right wing extremism yanked. Here’s a (urk) [Washington Times](http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/14/report-citing-vet-extremism-is-pulled/) link. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=11)