# 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:** 108
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2141 "2010-09-22T14:07:19Z")
[SCOTT WALKERS DETAILED JOBS PLAN FOR WISCONSIN](http://www.scottwalker.org/sites/default/files/SCOTT%20WALKER%27S%2068%20PAGE%20JOBS%20PLAN!.pdf). Not too stupid since [he’s winning.](http://wonkette.com/422695/how-to-fake-a-68-page-republican-jobs-plan-with-gigantic-fonts?) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2142 "2010-09-22T14:20:47Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [SCOTT WALKERS DETAILED JOBS PLAN FOR WISCONSIN](http://www.scottwalker.org/sites/default/files/SCOTT%20WALKER%27S%2068%20PAGE%20JOBS%20PLAN!.pdf). > > Not too stupid since [he’s winning.](http://wonkette.com/422695/how-to-fake-a-68-page-republican-jobs-plan-with-gigantic-fonts?) Hey its 68 pages long! That must mean its a detailed look at the economy! This reminds me of what people used to do in high school when assigned a 5 page paper. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2143 "2010-09-22T14:27:57Z")
I thought those margins looked awfully wide. And there’s something else I just can’t put my finger on. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2144 "2010-09-22T14:55:59Z")
Heh. I scrolled through that whole thing, expecting a punchline. Which I didn’t see until I opened **Biggirl** ’s second link. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2145 "2010-09-22T18:20:49Z")
To be fair, this isn’t just him being stupid. It took a little while to find out what is going on, but it appears his opponent has had a 67-page jobs plan out since the summer. Walker’s side is billing that as mostly fluff that no one reads and they are touting his plan as being common sense ideas that do not need that much length to present. They are trying to highlight that with the 68-page version. Personally I think it is remarkably stupid to do and stupid to say that such broadly defined goals come anywhere near a real plan, but at least they had some kind of purpose in releasing it like that. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2146 "2010-09-24T02:41:47Z")
Has anyone else noticed the Republican meme floating around that the health care bill was ‘shoved down America’s throat’? Hmm, let’s see, Obama campaigned on that issue from start to finish, then he won decisively, and then he followed through with what he said he was going to do all along (more or less). [puts on PubbieVision glasses] OMG :eek: It was _shoved down our throats_ :mad: ---
**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:** [September 24, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2147 "2010-09-24T02:47:09Z")
By “America’s Throat” they mean “Real Americans’ Throats” and by “Real Americans’ Throats” they mean “The Republican Party’s Throat”. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2148 "2010-09-24T03:19:39Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Has anyone else noticed the Republican meme floating around that the health care bill was ‘shoved down America’s throat’? Hmm, let’s see, Obama campaigned on that issue from start to finish, then he won decisively, and then he followed through with what he said he was going to do all along (more or less). > > [puts on PubbieVision glasses] > > OMG :eek: It was _shoved down our throats_ :mad: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! As gleefully reported on _Rachel Maddow_ (she of the swan’s neck, the girlish laugh and the steel trap mind…but I digress…) Next thing is: they take credit for the stuff people like. I swear, I’m _not_ making this up. They know that all over the country, the mothers of young people put their kids on their insurance yesterday morning, and slept better last night. That, and “no prexisting conditions” denial for children. So the Pubbies are set to claim that _those_ ideas, they were Republican ideas. Its the other ideas, the _bad_ ideas, those were the Dems. They very same guys who were willing to scream themselves hoarse and set their hair on fire to stop the HRC…are going to claim credit for it. They do for _chutzpah_ what Gamera does for turtles. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2149 "2010-09-24T04:47:31Z")
I got a kick out of this little except out of the ‘a pledge to America’: > [@](#): > > An arrogant and out-of-touch government of self-appointed elites makes decisions, issues mandates, and enacts laws without accepting or requesting the input of the many. I guess the government of self-appointed elites are the winners of the last election? Odd world when ‘self-appointed’ really means ‘democratically elected’. Will anyone really buy this bullshit? I mean, other than the usual 20%? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2150 "2010-09-24T04:57:47Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Will anyone really buy this bullshit? I mean, other than the usual 20%? Sadly, yes. Many will. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2151 "2010-09-24T05:04:14Z")
That pledge is only 48 pages. I’m not impressed. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2152 "2010-09-24T11:03:36Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Has anyone else noticed the Republican meme floating around that the health care bill was ‘shoved down America’s throat’? Hmm, let’s see, Obama campaigned on that issue from start to finish, then he won decisively, and then he followed through with what he said he was going to do all along (more or less). > > [puts on PubbieVision glasses] > > OMG :eek: It was _shoved down our throats_ :mad: Well, if it had been, we sure would have gotten much better healthcare reform. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2153 "2010-09-24T15:40:09Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > That pledge is only 48 pages. I’m not impressed. And can be summed up in :08 seconds. > **[All you need to know about the GOP's 'Pledge to America'](https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/23/904560/-All-you-need-to-know-about-the-GOPs-Pledge-to-America)** > > This morning, Republicans unveiled their 21-page "Pledge to America," but let'... ---
**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:** [September 24, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2154 "2010-09-24T15:49:11Z")
> [@Katriona](#): > > And can be summed up in :08 seconds. > > [All you need to know about the GOP's 'Pledge to America'](http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/23/904560/-All-you-need-to-know-about-the-GOPs-Pledge-to-America) How about throwing us non-video-accessible types a bone and tell us what Boener said in that video? ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2155 "2010-09-24T15:55:05Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > > [@Katriona](#): > > > > And can be summed up in :08 seconds. > > > > [All you need to know about the GOP's 'Pledge to America'](http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/23/904560/-All-you-need-to-know-about-the-GOPs-Pledge-to-America) > > How about throwing us non-video-accessible types a bone and tell us what Boener said in that video? “And the point we make in this preamble to our pledge, is that we are not going to be any different than what we’ve been.” ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2156 "2010-09-24T18:01:32Z")
Jon Steward did a great segment on this showing it as the exact same pledge that Republicans have given time and again. In Boehner’s case, word for word. [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-23-2010/postcards-from-the-pledge](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-23-2010/postcards-from-the-pledge) ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2157 "2010-09-24T19:24:31Z")
I christin it _The Republican plague on America_ And the Democrat’s in Congress should runs the Daily Show’s segment word-for-word. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2158 "2010-09-24T19:51:05Z")
Why should they risk offering an agenda or a program? Saying nothing is working for them, why take a chance? What they are saying is, We hate the same things about Obama that you do! You already know what you hate about Obama, and we totally agree with you! But the second they come out with a program, they have to come out with priorities. Whats more important, hating teh gay or hating abortion? Well, whatever you hate more, we hate more too! ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2159 "2010-09-25T10:53:09Z")
About a week ago, Sen. Jim Demint (R-SC), who’s been in DC since 1999, was quoted in the local "news"paper: “‘You can’t change Washington unless you change people who are here,’ he said. ‘People are ready to throw out the bums.’” [Cite](http://www.thestate.com/2010/09/16/1468039/demint-tea-party-candidates-can.html). And apparently nobody in SC sees the irony in his words. Now that right there’s some good market researchin’! ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2160 "2010-09-28T12:55:12Z")
From the October _Harper’s Index_: > [@](#): > > Percentage of this year’s federal budget deficit attributable to Bush-era tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: 38 Someone isn’t being accountable. I’d like to see what percentage of the deficit is attributable to dealing with the financial meltdown. Something tells me the facts would reveal Obama not to be the bastard he is portrayed to be. While I have it open, here’s another one: > [@](#): > > Percentage of Oklahoma’s population that is Muslim: 0.81 > Date on which its state legislature approved a referendum to ban judges from using shari’ah law in their decisions: 5/24/10 Whew! Nipped that one in the bud :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=107) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=109)