# 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:** 1019
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20362 "2015-03-26T16:53:47Z")
So, apparently a spokesperson for New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, Amy Spitalnick, reached out to the Daily Caller for a correction on a story. After some snide replies, she was shunted up the chain to the Tuckster himself, who proceeded to send a patronizing reply back, after which Tucker’s brother Buckley (Buckley?) send an email to his bro which said the following: “Great response. Whiny little self-righteous bitch. “Appalling?” And with such an ironic name, too… Spitalnick? Ironic because you just know she has extreme dick-fright; no chance has this girl ever had a pearl necklace. Spoogeneck? I don’t think so. More like LabiaFace.” However, he accidentally also forwarded it to Spitalnick. I am not 100% sure that Buckley is a Republican, but I think it a safe bet. I am quite sure that he’s an idiot and so belongs in this thread. In what kind of universe is this all right? What an enormous asshole. The full story is here: [Buzzfeed](http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/tucker-carlsons-brother-de-blasio-spokesperson-a-self-righte#.jgOnEB3ee). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20363 "2015-03-26T16:58:45Z")
> [@lel](#): > > I still fail to see how even were Roy Moore to die… I fail to see how we could expect trauma to the brain to kill him, since it’s clear that said organ is already nonfunctional. > [@Gyrate](#): > > If only we’d installed more wind farms on the East Coast - all those big fans could have blown the clouds west. Maybe we could harness the hot air from the GOP pols squatting in DC. McCain could lead the effort; it seems right in his wheelhouse. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20364 "2015-03-26T17:14:55Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > So, apparently a spokesperson for New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, Amy Spitalnick, reached out to the Daily Caller for a correction on a story. After some snide replies, she was shunted up the chain to the Tuckster himself, who proceeded to send a patronizing reply back, after which Tucker’s brother Buckley (Buckley?) send an email to his bro which said the following: “Great response. Whiny little self-righteous bitch. “Appalling?” And with such an ironic name, too… Spitalnick? Ironic because you just know she has extreme dick-fright; no chance has this girl ever had a pearl necklace. Spoogeneck? I don’t think so. More like LabiaFace.” > > However, he accidentally also forwarded it to Spitalnick. I am not 100% sure that Buckley is a Republican, but I think it a safe bet. I am quite sure that he’s an idiot and so belongs in this thread. In what kind of universe is this all right? What an enormous asshole. > > The full story is here: [Buzzfeed](http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/tucker-carlsons-brother-de-blasio-spokesperson-a-self-righte#.jgOnEB3ee). Two guys name Tucker and Buckley shouldn’t be poking fun at other people’s names. Just sayin… ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20365 "2015-03-26T17:17:37Z")
> [@lel](#): > > I still fail to see how even were Roy Moore to die (and I do not wish death upon him, merely electoral loss) that even one gay marriage would be stopped. > > I better not mention how even if gay marriage were stopped, there would still be gay sex. Would you still have gay sex after your penis accidentally penetrated a guy’s skull and killed him? That’s gotta kill the mood ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20366 "2015-03-26T17:22:59Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Would you still have gay sex after your penis accidentally penetrated a guy’s skull and killed him? Sure. Mooreplay. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20367 "2015-03-26T17:29:19Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Two guys name Tucker and Buckley shouldn’t be poking fun at other people’s names. Just sayin… Obviously, when each of them were born and their parents got a look at them, the first syllable out of their parents’ mouth had an “uck” in it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20368 "2015-03-26T19:05:37Z")
In an effort to shore up his foreign-policy cred, [Scott Walker compares the Israel-Iran conflict to _Trading Places._](http://www.salon.com/2015/03/26/scott_walkers_interview_debacle_how_the_movie_%e2%80%9ctrading_places%e2%80%9d_explains_the_iranisrael_conflict/) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20369 "2015-03-26T19:10:45Z")
Arizona State Senator thinks [church attendance should be mandatory:](http://www.kpho.com/story/28620533/az-senator-church-attendance-should-be-mandatory#.VRQRQyTkWcc.twitter) > [@](#): > > State Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, brought it up during a committee meeting Tuesday while lawmaker were debating a gun bill, not religion. > > Allen explained that without a “moral rebirth” in the country, more people may feel the need to carry a weapon. > > “I believe what’s happening to our country is that there’s a moral erosion of the soul of America,” she said. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20370 "2015-03-26T19:47:51Z")
[John Bolton writes in the NYT: Bomb Iran!](http://www.salon.com/2015/03/26/john_bolton_to_the_rescue_how_his_raving_nyt_op_ed_helps_the_obama_administration/) ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20371 "2015-03-26T20:01:13Z")
"[The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill that requires abortion providers to tell women the effects of an abortion medication might be reversible.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/arizona-legislature-passes-bill-on-abortion-restrictions/2015/03/25/08ae32e2-d348-11e4-8b1e-274d670aa9c9_story.html) "It is believed to be the first time such legislation has passed in the U.S. Critics say there’s no science to back up the provision. “The proposal by Republican Sen. Nancy Barto of Phoenix …” More here: [Arizona abortion bill: No, abortions can't be "reversed."](http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/03/26/arizona_abortion_bill_no_abortions_can_t_be_reversed.html) See, this is why I reminded folks flaunting the hash tag on Twitter, “#IfWomenRuledTheWorld,” that they were playing with fire. Some women are dumber than a wet bag of hair. And some are just plain evil. Like this one. I would kill myself if Phylis Schlafley, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin et all ruled the world. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20372 "2015-03-26T20:09:39Z")
And of course these stories always include the phrase “… _to insert themselves into women’s_ …” ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20373 "2015-03-26T20:16:26Z")
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers posted on her facebook page for people to tell her their Obamacare horror stories. [It sort of backfired](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/26/gop-congresswoman-asks-for-obamacare-horror-stories-gets-dose-of-reality-instead-screenshots/). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20374 "2015-03-26T20:34:27Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > "[The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill that requires abortion providers to tell women the effects of an abortion medication might be reversible.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/arizona-legislature-passes-bill-on-abortion-restrictions/2015/03/25/08ae32e2-d348-11e4-8b1e-274d670aa9c9_story.html) > > "It is believed to be the first time such legislation has passed in the U.S. Critics say there’s no science to back up the provision. 😕 That goes way beyond “no science,” it doesn’t make any kind of sense. If the drug works at all, then it expels the embryo from the body. How could that possibly be reversible?! And if it were, that would make a woman **less** hesitant to take the drug; if she changes her mind next month, she can always take the reversal-treatment and be pregnant again with the same embryo. Just what are they trying to **say?!** ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20375 "2015-03-26T20:54:49Z")
The Slate article gives more detail. It’s a two-pill process, so doctors will now be forced to tell women that if they become distraught after taking the first one, which itself is not sufficient to induce abortion, to come back and be given a shot of testosterone to reverse the process. Which it most definitely does not. Testosterone does nothing to the fetus or the process. Not a goddamn thing. But now all doctors will have to lie to their patients by law. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20376 "2015-03-26T21:53:02Z")
Is there anything in the bill that would prohibit a doctor from telling his patient “Hey, what I just told you is a lie, required by state law. Here is the real information.” ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20377 "2015-03-26T21:53:10Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > So Ted Cruz could look at becoming the example the dictionary will use when one looks at the definition of “Not even wrong”. > > [Not even wrong - RationalWiki](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong) I think he’s more often Doubly Wrong than Not Even Wrong. Including in this case. He’s wrong about which side are metaphorical (well, probably metaphorical) Flat Earthers, and he’s wrong about the facts of Galileo’s persecution. He’s Twice Wrong, Doubly Wrong, Repeatedly Wrong, but not Not Even Wrong. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20378 "2015-03-26T22:03:49Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > Anything below 5 cents should be rounded up or down, in much the same way fractions of pennies are calculated and dropped today due to interest rates or tax rates. > > You can easily get by with 2 coins, if we’re so set on having amounts smaller than a quarter, which is the only coin I really feel like having. Anything else is worthless to have around in your pocket, and you only keep them so you can avoid getting MORE change back, and it wastes time to dig around for 89 cents so you can avoid getting 11 cents back. All that change really does is sit in a coffee can at home waiting to be cashed in for actual money, or it gets lost. > > If you want to have a workable system of coins, 25 cent and 5 cent pieces are plenty. Abolish the penny, and with it, the dime, and the 2 dollar bill, and the 10 dollar bill, and the fifty. What’s the friggen point of those denominations? > > This is all you need: > > Nickel > Quarter dollar > Dollar > Five dollar > 20 dollar > 100 dollar > 1000 dollar, etc. > > Tell me you can’t easily reach any dollar amount you regularly run into with these denominations, give or take 3 pennies. You’re arguing for only having coins/bills at a multiple of four or five. But it’s long been custom to have them at multiples of 2 or 2.5. That’s a separate argument from the problem that the dime has the approximate purchasing power now that the half-cent had when it was abandoned. Since deflation would be destructive to many small landholders, we aren’t going back. Dump everything below the quarter. Or, just to annoy Askthepizzaguy, take his advice and strip out half the bills, while getting ahead of the game and dumping the quarter too: Half dollar coin Two-dollar coin Ten-dollar (One eagle) bill Fifty-dollar bill (suck it Franklin, you old fraud) Two-Hundred-dollar bill etc. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20379 "2015-03-26T22:12:53Z")
> **[Indiana Gov. Pence defends religious objections law: 'This bill is not about...](https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/chi-indiana-religious-freedom-bill-sb101-pence-20150326-story.html)** > > Indiana's Gov. Mike Pence has signed into law a religious objection bill. I live a few short miles from Indiana, and the only good news here is that locally, Indiana buisnesses are not in support. But to those wandering hoosiers who are in support, if hell existed, I would tell you to go there. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20380 "2015-03-26T22:34:41Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > You’re arguing for only having coins/bills at a multiple of four or five. But it’s long been custom to have them at multiples of 2 or 2.5. > > That’s a separate argument from the problem that the dime has the approximate purchasing power now that the half-cent had when it was abandoned. Since deflation would be destructive to many small landholders, we aren’t going back. Dump everything below the quarter. > > Or, just to annoy Askthepizzaguy, take his advice and strip out half the bills, while getting ahead of the game and dumping the quarter too: > > Half dollar coin > Two-dollar coin > Ten-dollar (One eagle) bill > Fifty-dollar bill > (suck it Franklin, you old fraud) > Two-Hundred-dollar bill > > etc. I say the way to go is the smallest denomination is the “bit”, as in a quarter is two bits. And screw the two dolla coin, Americans cannot handle twos, just mint a $5 coin, with a brass seated Lincoln inlaid in a silvery disk. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20381 "2015-03-26T22:55:54Z")
Pete Sessions has estimated Obamacare’s cost per new insurance enrollee. > **[Sessions stumbles on 'simple multiplication'](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/sessions-stumbles-simple-multiplication)** > > To determine the per-person cost of "Obamacare," Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) asks us to consider "simple multiplication." That's a great idea. > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions claimed on the House floor today that Obamacare coverage costs federal taxpayers $5 million for each newly covered American. > > He was off by a lot — nearly $5 million, in fact. > > “If you just do simple multiplication, 12 million into $108 billion, we’re talking literally every single recipient would be costing this government more than $5 million per person for their insurance,” said Sessions, chairman of the House Rules Committee. > > The actual math is this: $108 billion divided by 12 million equals $9,000. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1018) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1020)