# 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:** 1090
**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 26, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21782 "2015-05-26T19:41:12Z")
[Right wing Alabama Chief Justice wants Ruth Bader Ginsburg impeached.](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/roy-moore-wants-ruth-bader-ginsburg-impeached) Don’t mess with Notorious RBG! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21783 "2015-05-26T19:51:45Z")
Didn’t see this onw above, so here goes: [Kansas, again. Trying to figure out new ways to make sure the poor have no money.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/21/kansas-has-found-the-ultimate-way-to-punish-the-poor/?tid=sm_tw) The tactic is to limit the amount of cash they can withdraw to $25 a day. yay… ---
**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 26, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21784 "2015-05-26T20:31:10Z")
[Anti-Islamic radical crazy Pamela Geller wants to plaster the sides of Washington, DC transit with images of Mohammed, just to provoke a terrorist attack on the transit system.](http://www.salon.com/2015/05/26/pam_geller%E2%80%99s_next_big_idea_exposing_innocent_washington_dc_commuters_to_risk_of_attack_just_to_make_a_point/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow) ---
**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:** [May 26, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21785 "2015-05-26T21:19:51Z")
I am so committed to the idea of free speech that I am willing to risk your life to prove my point. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21786 "2015-05-26T21:45:59Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I am so committed to the idea of free speech that I am willing to risk your life to prove my point. :rolleyes: A new species of chickenhawk. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21787 "2015-05-26T22:55:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Anti-Islamic radical crazy Pamela Geller wants to plaster the sides of Washington, DC transit with images of Mohammed, just to provoke a terrorist attack on the transit system.](http://www.salon.com/2015/05/26/pam_geller%E2%80%99s_next_big_idea_exposing_innocent_washington_dc_commuters_to_risk_of_attack_just_to_make_a_point/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow) **Haberdash** cited that article in another thread as an example of why Muslims are bad. For me the kicker is Gellar’s insistence that if we don’t let her troll Muslims it means Shariah law has taken over in America. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21788 "2015-05-26T23:06:16Z")
Its stupid even in a cynical, _realpolitik_ sense. It promotes the myth our real enemies are trying to sell, that the problem centers around an inherent conflict between Islam and damn near everybody else. But West didn’t start shoving Muslims around because of theology, the West started pushing them around because of oil. God foolishly, or for reasons we don’t understand, put our oil under their dirt. So, we had to adjust things so we could get it. Like their governments, and stuff. People like the odious and poisonous Ms Gellar promote our enemy’s agenda, encourage their recruitment, and draw attention away from whatever legitimate grievances need to be addressed. It injures both and injures all, it injures people who have no connection whatever to the “conflict”. I am hesitant with the word “evil”, because it implies a metaphysics that I am suspicious of. But this shit comes damned close. The only reason it is not as evil as Nazism is that Nazism had more power to inflict itself on the innocent. And it is the duty of every self-respecting human with a shred of decency to protect the innocent from evil. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21789 "2015-05-26T23:15:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Right wing Alabama Chief Justice wants Ruth Bader Ginsburg impeached.](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/roy-moore-wants-ruth-bader-ginsburg-impeached) > > Don’t mess with Notorious RBG! Considering that Judge Moore was tossed out of his job (not impeached, IIRC, just ‘removed’) in \*Alabama \* (and you have to be a pretty big a loser to do have that happen) on the State Supreme Court (he got re-elected, of course, as I noted, this is Alabama). The man gives Alabama a bad name…which, all things considered, is pretty hard to do (as we already are a joke). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21790 "2015-05-26T23:18:50Z")
Recovering Texan here. Tell me about it. ---
**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 26, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21791 "2015-05-26T23:44:37Z")
Anybody here from DC? What is the socioeconomic/racial profile of DC transit riders? Given that the city is predominately A-A, I have a hard time not feeling as though Gellar’s goal is to endanger those problem-folk, otherwise maybe she would advocate this project in her pretty little Texas town. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21792 "2015-05-26T23:51:41Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Considering that Judge Moore was tossed out of his job (not impeached, IIRC, just ‘removed’) in \*Alabama \* (and you have to be a pretty big a loser to do have that happen) on the State Supreme Court (he got re-elected, of course, as I noted, this is Alabama). > > The man gives Alabama a bad name…which, all things considered, is pretty hard to do (as we already are a joke). Except for [The Rose of Alabamy!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzc7OMwjt8w) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21793 "2015-05-27T00:01:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Anti-Islamic radical crazy Pamela Geller wants to plaster the sides of Washington, DC transit with images of Mohammed . . .](http://www.salon.com/2015/05/26/pam_geller%E2%80%99s_next_big_idea_exposing_innocent_washington_dc_commuters_to_risk_of_attack_just_to_make_a_point/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow) [What’s wrong with that?](http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11120/111204980/4281602-mte5ndg0mdu0odc2ntu0nzy3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21794 "2015-05-27T01:38:38Z")
In 50-49 vote, US Senate says climate change [not caused by humans.](http://bangordailynews.com/2015/01/22/politics/senate-not-ready-to-tie-climate-change-to-mankind/) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21795 "2015-05-27T01:53:41Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > …otherwise maybe she would advocate this project in her pretty little Texas town. She’s from Long Island. Lives in New York. Doesn’t know an armadillo from an Amarillo. Long Island, you can hear her talk here: [https://www.youtube.com/user/atlasshrugs2000](https://www.youtube.com/user/atlasshrugs2000). Think Marrisa Tomei in _Cousin Vinny_. > **[Pamela Geller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller)** > > Pamela Geller (born 1958) is an American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator. Geller promoted birther conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama, saying that he was born in Kenya and that he is a Muslim. > In 2006, Geller reproduced the controversial Danish cartoons of Muhammad published by the Jyllands-Posten newspaper on her blog. She came to further prominence in 2010 for leading the campaign against the proposed Park51 Islamic community center, which Gel... “Publisher of Atlas Shrugged” says her Facebook. Sheesh. Anyway, this one is not from Texas. Just sayin’, is all. Keep the record straight. ---
**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 27, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21796 "2015-05-27T02:16:56Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > In 50-49 vote, US Senate says climate change [not caused by humans.](http://bangordailynews.com/2015/01/22/politics/senate-not-ready-to-tie-climate-change-to-mankind/) Can we put other scientific facts to the vote as well ? I’d really like to propose a vote on the boiling temperature of water at sea level. This perfidious “100 degrees” lie has gone unchecked for too long, when the real answer is “whenever god decides to make it boil”. Oooh, you know what votes would really speed up, too ? Double-blind pharma. tests. These things take aaaages. But just have the Senate vote whether or not this pill safely cures arthritis, bam, done by lunch ! ---
**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 27, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21797 "2015-05-27T02:51:09Z")
That’s Muhammad Ali. Note spelling. Also, **'luc** , please don’t spell Pamela Geller’s name as “Gellar.” I don’t want to drag Sarah Gellar’s name through the mud by association. ---
**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 27, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21798 "2015-05-27T03:08:00Z")
Is she related to the spoon guy? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21799 "2015-05-27T03:13:54Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > The more interesting question, to my mind, is “When and why did these Republican women legislators grow spines?” I notice that one of them lost her spine shortly thereafter, however. Maybe it was aborted. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21800 "2015-05-27T03:31:04Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Bell Curve author Charles Murray; [the hyper-rich should undermine American democracy and seize power by refusing to obey labor laws and filing thousands of frivolous lawsuits until the government is driven into insolvency.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/05/26/3662560/jeb-bushs-favorite-author-publishes-318-page-rant-democracy/) Is he a Scientologist? ---
**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 27, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21801 "2015-05-27T03:54:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Except for [The Rose of Alabamy!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzc7OMwjt8w) 🙂 Did you read the comments below that video? :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1089) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1091)