# 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:** 1080
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21582 "2015-05-13T21:28:34Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > …Can’t wait to see how they feign questions about it. If they deign to answer at all. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21583 "2015-05-13T21:30:32Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Missouri House Speaker John Diehl caught [sexting with an intern](http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article20822424.html). The married Republican is a proponent of “Biblical marriage”. “Neither shalt thou use thy staff to comfort thy rod…” _Reptilicus_, Ch 3, V.12 ---
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21584 "2015-05-13T22:13:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Missouri House Speaker John Diehl caught [sexting with an intern](http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article20822424.html). The married Republican is a proponent of “Biblical marriage”. Didn’t some of the men in the Old Testament have concubines? So, no problem. ---
**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 13, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21585 "2015-05-13T22:17:16Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > The article points out that Obama had previously asked for a 2.5 billion increase for Amtrak. So no one should wonder why funding was struck down. Please read the article again. The president asked _for_ $2.5 billion for Amtrak, which was a larger amount than he has asked for in the past. He did not ask for an _increase_ of $2.5 billion. The Rs feel that we can get by with with 44% of that. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21586 "2015-05-13T22:30:27Z")
[Louisiana Republican thinks scientists used to burn heretics at the stake](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/11/louisiana-scientists-burn-stake_n_7259486.html) > [@](#): > > “There was a time, sir, when scientists thought that the world was flat. And if you get to the end of it, you’d fall off," Guillory said. “There was another time when scientists thought that the sun revolved around the world. And they always thought to ensure that anyone who disagreed with their science was a heretic. People were burned for not believing that the world was flat. People were really badly treated.” If I facepalmed myself as hard as this deserves I would shatter my own skull and the shrapnel would kill other people in the building I live in. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21587 "2015-05-13T22:58:44Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Please read the article again. The president asked _for_ $2.5 billion for Amtrak, which was a larger amount than he has asked for in the past. He did not ask for an _increase_ of $2.5 billion. The Rs feel that we can get by with with 44% of that. "President Barack Obama asked for almost $2.5 billion for Amtrak in his February budget, much more than he’d requested in previous years. " Yeah, I wrote that wrong saying it was an increase of 2.5 billion. My point was he asked for more money back in February making the full total of 2.5 billion. So since Obama asked for this and is interested in “a” increase, they gotta block it. If he wanted a $2.50 increase, same thing. Hell, if he wanted to cut it by 2.5 billion, they would’ve said no to that too. 😉 ---
**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 13, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21588 "2015-05-13T23:53:47Z")
Well, and I guess their thinking is that Amtrak is a business, and when businesses make mistakes, they lose money, so we should take money away from them. ---
**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 14, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21589 "2015-05-14T00:11:27Z")
[Jeb apparently decided that his answer about going to war in Iraq would lose him votes so he tried to backpedal but just got even more stuck in the quicksand.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/jeb-bush-iraq-war_n_7268096.html) ---
**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 14, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21590 "2015-05-14T02:02:31Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > “Neither shalt thou use thy staff to comfort thy rod…” > _Reptilicus_, Ch 3, V.12 Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21591 "2015-05-14T06:55:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Jeb apparently decided that his answer about going to war in Iraq would lose him votes so he tried to backpedal but just got even more stuck in the quicksand.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/jeb-bush-iraq-war_n_7268096.html) Wow, talk about an own goal…Sheesh! ---
**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:** [May 14, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21592 "2015-05-14T07:52:55Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > [Louisiana Republican thinks scientists used to burn heretics at the stake](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/11/louisiana-scientists-burn-stake_n_7259486.html) Cocaine’s a hell of a drug. Hell of a drug. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21593 "2015-05-14T11:16:55Z")
“I’m running for president in 2016, and the focus is going to be about how we, if I run, how do you create high sustained economic growth.” Looks like W may be advising on communication skills as well as War Preznit Stuff… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21594 "2015-05-14T14:31:16Z")
Looks like he also made a run at getting the nomination the same way. I remember. Back then, I was somewhat aware of GeeDubya, as a recovering Texan, I was aware that he was Da Guv, that he had beaten Ann Richards and affirmed my belief that Texas was a wonderful place to be from. He also revived one of my favorite cultural phenoms, the Aggie joke. (This was before Rick Perry, who actually _is_ an Aggie joke…) Remember? The Pubbies were flailing around, looking for a way not to run Bob Dole again. And then suddenly, GeeDubya! Suddenly, avalanches of money were rolling onto him, he was an unknown, he was a contender, he was the front runner, he was the nominee fer sure fer sure…all in a matter of days! That was back when the Trodglodyte Right was still totally reliable, the Money Republicans packaged him, advertised him and shipped him out on a same-day basis, badda-boom, badda bing, nominee! Looks like Jeb! tried the same tactic, a “carbon copy”, as the old folks say. So far, the knuckle walkers aren’t that impressed, the stampede turned out to be a bunch of bovines wandering about aimlessly. Wait, what? Pick doofus, pull money lever, rumble rumble, nominee! Instructions unclear, penis caught in overhead fan. Laugh? I thought I’d surely die! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21595 "2015-05-14T18:09:24Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Missouri House Speaker John Diehl caught [sexting with an intern](http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article20822424.html). The married Republican is a proponent of “Biblical marriage”. To be fair, however the rabbis interpret it nowadays, I am fairly certain that in OT times, the commandment against adultery imposed no duty of sexual fidelity whatsoever on a husband, only on a wife. To a man, married or unmarried, it meant only one thing: “Thou shalt not lie down with another man’s wife.” But it was perfectly all right for a married man to go to whores, or to have concubines. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21596 "2015-05-14T19:29:00Z")
You would think that they would advertise that. Big selling point if you are looking for a church. ---
**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 14, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21597 "2015-05-14T20:05:17Z")
The party is a-dyin’. The candidates were asked, “_Who is the greatest_ living _president_?” I need not bore you with [their most obvious answer](http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/13/politics/being-moody-south-carolina-2016/#) (hint: dead for over a decade, and, really, many years before that). ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21598 "2015-05-14T20:57:29Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The party is a-dyin’. The candidates were asked, “_Who is the greatest_ living _president_?” I need not bore you with [their most obvious answer](http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/13/politics/being-moody-south-carolina-2016/#) (hint: dead for over a decade, and, really, many years before that). Colbert-esque question; I love it! ---
**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 15, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21599 "2015-05-15T01:58:52Z")
[Scott Walker Tweet:](https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/598544504459780097) > [@](#): > > It’s hard to believe that it has been 505 years since the first settlers arrived at Jamestown. - TW Ahh, lets see now, 2015 - 1607 =? My favorite comment: You Thought It Too ‏@TrueFactsStated May 13 @ScottWalker maybe not graduating should be issue after all. Note: St. Augustine Florida, the oldest USA city, was founded in 1565, so that’s closer at 450 years. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21600 "2015-05-15T02:40:11Z")
Acoma, New Mexico, founded around AD 1200, continuously inhabited since. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21601 "2015-05-15T02:57:31Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Acoma, New Mexico, founded around AD 1200, continuously inhabited since. Yeah, but it only counts once the white folk git there. Give ‘em a few more years and some of them Spics’ll count (not Mexicans obviously). Cubans made it to damn near white in less than 40 years! Hell, we got one runnin’ for President now! Don’t tell me the 'Merican Dream is dead. Injuns? Nah. Let 'em run casinos and drink firewater. All they’re good for anyways. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1079) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1081)