# 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:** 1073
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21442 "2015-05-06T16:15:35Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Oh, there’s a new epithet about the President:](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-furious-uncircumcised-philistine-obama-making-joke-about-michele-bachmann) > > Quote: > On the Friday edition of his show, Wiles attacked the “uncircumcised philistine in the White House” along with the “adoring, obedient, subservient, lapdog news reporters” who attended the dinner. (In 1 Samuel, David refers to Goliath as the “uncircumcised philistine” who seeks to “defy the armies of the living God”). > Just thought you’d want to know. And he knows this how? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21443 "2015-05-06T16:16:40Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > And he knows this how? Easy, “Obama” is a Philistine name. ---
**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 6, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21444 "2015-05-06T16:19:28Z")
Wikileaks? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21445 "2015-05-06T16:24:43Z")
Oregon passes a measure closing loopholes in required background checks for gun sales. [The GOP and NRA lose their minds.](http://www.salon.com/2015/05/06/gun_nuts_lose_their_damned_minds_the_common_sense_gun_safety_bill_thats_giving_the_nra_gop_conniptions/) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21446 "2015-05-06T16:25:09Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Wikileaks? He saw the President taking a Wikileak? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21447 "2015-05-06T16:25:11Z")
I know Phyllis Stein, and circumcision would be superfluous. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21448 "2015-05-06T16:48:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Nebraska woman files lawsuit against ALL homosexuals.](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nebraska-woman-sues-all-homosexuals-liers-thieves-n354301) I suspect that this woman has a secret hankering for the lass across the street and actually just wants the judge to tell her it is not a sin. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21449 "2015-05-06T17:07:41Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Nebraska woman files lawsuit against ALL homosexuals.](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nebraska-woman-sues-all-homosexuals-liers-thieves-n354301) To give credit where it’s due, though, she does have very neat penmanship. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21450 "2015-05-06T17:18:20Z")
[Republicans denounce Harry Reid’s move](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/harry-reids-power-play-rankles-gop-117655.html) to put transportation funding and surveillance reform bills (both facing end-of-this-month deadlines for action) ahead of “fast-track” trade legislation (which can be done any old time) as a “power play”. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21451 "2015-05-06T19:00:09Z")
[Ben Carson thinks that the President only has to follow laws passed by Congress, and can ignore rulings from the Supreme Court.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-gay-marriage-supreme-court) ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21452 "2015-05-06T19:08:16Z")
In Carson’s defense, there’s the infamous [Jackson v. Marshall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia) precedent. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21453 "2015-05-06T19:19:28Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > To give credit where it’s due, though, she does have very neat penmanship. Homosexuals often do. 😉 ---
**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 6, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21454 "2015-05-06T19:29:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ben Carson thinks that the President only has to follow laws passed by Congress, and can ignore rulings from the Supreme Court.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-gay-marriage-supreme-court) Wow, that’s really powerful ignorance. I would have thought that anyone who’s ever taken a basic civics class should understand this. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21455 "2015-05-06T19:59:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ben Carson thinks that the President only has to follow laws passed by Congress, and can ignore rulings from the Supreme Court.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-gay-marriage-supreme-court) [nitpick]He thinks the president is not bound to enforce \*laws \*coming from the Supreme Court.[/nitpick] So, you know. There’s that. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21456 "2015-05-07T03:09:23Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Lindsey Graham is setting the tone of his presidential campaign:](http://www.vox.com/2015/5/5/8554335/lindsey-graham-al) Al Iskandariyah? Al Jazeera? Al-Sham? How ign’ant is old Linds anyhoo? > [@CalMeacham](#): > > In the news now: **Rick Perry to Texas: Stop Being Insane** > > [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/06/perry-to-texas-stop-being-insane.html?utm\_source=feedburner&utm\_medium=feed&utm\_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+(The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles)](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/06/perry-to-texas-stop-being-insane.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29) > > Rick Perry – RICK PERRY – is the Voice of Reason in Texas right now. The mind boggles. Hmm. That is interesting. > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > In fairness, Graham also [said an uncharacteristically reasonable thing](http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/lindsey-graham-if-court-rules-marriage-bans-unconstitutional#.ddmRL8M1K) the other day: > > > [@](#): > > > > Things are changing, so at the end of the day, being for traditional marriage without animosity is where I stand. If the Supreme Court rules sometime this year that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional, then that will be a defining moment in that debate. It will be time for us to move forward as a society. I dunno, that’s very noncommittal and ambiguous. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21457 "2015-05-07T04:32:56Z")
[Texas legislator inserts into bill a requirement that women carry nonviable pregnancies to term,](http://www.salon.com/2015/05/04/when_even_misogyny_is_bigger_in_texas_this_republicans_cruel_law_would_force_women_to_carry_non_viable_pregnancies_to_term/) because original sin, or something. > [@](#): > > As Andrea Grimes first reported in RH Reality Check, Republican State Representative Matt Schaefer has recently proposed an amendment to the Health and Safety Code for medical facilities that would “prohibit the performance of an abortion at the facility on the basis that the fetus has a severe and irreversible abnormality.” And as he explained last month on Facebook, “Fetal abnormalities should not justify taking the life of unborn babies.” In other words, regardless of the viability of a fetus, Schaefer would like to make sure that a woman be forced to carry it as long as possible. Why? Because as he sees it, those fetuses “are going to suffer, they’re going to feel pain” and well, “That’s part of the human condition, when sin entered the world, and it grieves us all.” Grimes notes that Schaefer’s clever idea to legislate suffering “was tacked on as an amendment to a bill about the bureaucratic operations of the state health department, as if it were some kind of especially abhorrent afterthought.” Houston Rep. Jessica Farrar, meanwhile, boggled that “I won’t even go into the level of misogyny I have experienced this session.” Appallingly, the bill passed before State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer quickly filed a legislative point of order that put it back under review. Of course, this can kill. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21458 "2015-05-07T04:38:00Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Rick Perry – RICK PERRY – is the Voice of Reason in Texas right now. The mind boggles. Did you see his rationale, though? > [@](#): > > “It’s OK to question your government. I do it on a regular basis,” he said on May 5, per the Dallas Morning News. “But the military is something else. Our military is quite trustworthy. The civilian leadership, you can always question that, but not the men and women in uniform.” It’s never OK to question the uniformed services? Really? ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21459 "2015-05-07T11:33:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ben Carson thinks that the President only has to follow laws passed by Congress, and can ignore rulings from the Supreme Court.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-gay-marriage-supreme-court) So now we should expect Tom Cotton and his merry band of 47 (or whatever the number was, I’ve already forgotten) GOP misfits to send Carson a condescending letter explaining how our government works. Right? Although I get the distinct feeling folks like Carson and Huckabee would love to have all the power of an ayatollah, if they could just use some other non-Muslim/non-Arabic/good ol’ Murrican name for the post instead … ---
**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:** [May 7, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21460 "2015-05-07T14:59:06Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > Although I get the distinct feeling folks like Carson and Huckabee would love to have all the power of an ayatollah, if they could just use some other non-Muslim/non-Arabic/good ol’ Murrican name for the post instead … “Pope” ? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21461 "2015-05-07T15:27:17Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > “Pope” ? “Prope.” Protestant equivalent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1072) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1074)