# 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:** 1131
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22602 "2015-06-29T18:11:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Because too many men want their Kate and Edith too. > > _flees_ [You rascal, you.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kMqLOX6ty0) ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22603 "2015-06-29T18:14:10Z")
From East Texas comes one of the[more spectacularly stupid Republican ideas:](http://www.tylerpaper.com/TP-News+Local/221321/rep-simpson-marriage-process-decisions-belong-with-religions) > [@](#): > > State Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, called on Gov. Greg Abbott to immediately call a special session of the 84th Legislature to end Texas’ involvement in the marriage process and put the process in the hands of individual religious denominations. > > Simpson said the best way to protect marriage is to divorce it from government. He asked the governor to recall the legislature so that legislation may be immediately considered to remove state and local officials from the process of issuing marriage licenses. In its place, the process of issuing a certificate of marriage would be performed by any willing clergy member consistent with their conscience and in respect for culture and heritage. > > For those who do not wish to have a religious ceremony, any authorized notary may approve a certificate. I suppose he does not realize that many gay Texans have already gotten married. And that the State’s higher officials haven’t opposed gay marriage meaningfully since Friday. They’ve made statements & encouraged clerks who are too religious to do their jobs to lawyer up. None of which matters. He’s running for State Senator & this is free publicity… ---
**Author:** ![TheSeaOtter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed655f/32.png) [@TheSeaOtter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSeaOtter)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22604 "2015-06-29T18:19:02Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > In Scalia’s butthurt Gay Marriage dissent he points out that 8 of the 9 justices are from either of the two coasts, 4 are from New York alone and the faiths of the justices are not representative of the nation as a whole. Supreme Court Justices are not required nor intended to be representative of the nation as a whole, but since Scalia is concerned about equitable representation perhaps he could start with concern that the 22 female GOP representatives in the House represent 8.9% of that parties members. If Scalia is so concerned about the lack of diversity on the Court, he should act immediately to alleviate it… by resigning. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22605 "2015-06-29T19:15:53Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > In Scalia’s butthurt Gay Marriage dissent he points out that 8 of the 9 justices are from either of the two coasts, 4 are from New York alone and the faiths of the justices are not representative of the nation as a whole. Supreme Court Justices are not required nor intended to be representative of the nation as a whole, but since Scalia is concerned about equitable representation perhaps he could start with concern that the 22 female GOP representatives in the House represent 8.9% of that parties members. Or, closer to his shop, that there are only 3 women on the SC, out of 9 Justices. And the Notorious RBG probably counts for two men, balls-wise. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22606 "2015-06-29T20:05:23Z")
It looks like announcing his (imaginary) bid for the presidency wasn’t such a great idea: [NBC has fired Donald Trump](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TV_NBC_TRUMP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-06-29-15-30-04). Specifically, they fired him because of remarks he made regarding Mexican immigrants during his announcement of his candidacy. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22607 "2015-06-29T20:31:52Z")
Now that he doesn’t have a show to promote, let’s see how long before he drops out. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22608 "2015-06-29T23:13:15Z")
That dude has got some seriously fucked up hair! ---
**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:** [June 30, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22609 "2015-06-30T00:29:00Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Actually, there are lots of cases that aren’t about those particular ideological differences, and don’t split quite that way. > [@septimus](#): > > Cite? Obviously some decisions are 7-2, etc. but on the close votes the correlations are rather consistent and strong. > > Some years ago at SDMB, I posted a statistical summary of all 5-4 votes over a period of a decade or so, demonstrating the correlations. Do you have new statistics showing the opposite, or was yours just a fanciful post? And…how does this contradict what I have said? Is it your contention that Anthony Kennedy is always in the majority and always steering the majority? If not, then we really don’t have a one-justice Court. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22610 "2015-06-30T00:50:37Z")
I’m not sure if this is so much stupid as it is blatant lying, but we don’t have a “blatant Republican lie of the day” thread. Fox guest: Charleston shooter is ‘A product of the left wing’. > **[Fox Guest: Charleston Shooter Is ‘A Product Of The Left Wing’ (VIDEO)](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kevin-jackson-fox-dylann-roof-left)** > > Fox News guest Kevin Jackson said on Monday that the suspect in the killing of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, South Carolina church was clearly "a product of the left" and that his killing… > [@](#): > > “They’ve just thrown him over into the right because he passed by a right wing building or something,” said Jackson, author of “The Big Black Lie: How I Learned The Truth About The Democrat Party.” > > “Dylann Roof is a product of the left wing. He’s a product of their education system,” he continued. “As much as they wanna blame it on the right, as far as I’m concerned — you can look at everything he’s done and it absolutely adds up to leftism.” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22611 "2015-06-30T00:56:12Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > In Scalia’s butthurt Gay Marriage dissent he points out that 8 of the 9 justices are from either of the two coasts, 4 are from New York alone and the faiths of the justices are not representative of the nation as a whole. Supreme Court Justices are not required nor intended to be representative of the nation as a whole, but since Scalia is concerned about equitable representation perhaps he could start with concern that the 22 female GOP representatives in the House represent 8.9% of that parties members. When I saw that, I figured it had to be a prelude to a retirement announcement. He’s one of those New York Catholics he was complaining about, so surely he’s planning to do the right thing and make way for some diversity. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22612 "2015-06-30T02:27:08Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > In Scalia’s butthurt Gay Marriage dissent he points out that 8 of the 9 justices are from either of the two coasts, 4 are from New York alone and the faiths of the justices are not representative of the nation as a whole. Supreme Court Justices are not required nor intended to be representative of the nation as a whole, but since Scalia is concerned about equitable representation perhaps he could start with concern that the 22 female GOP representatives in the House represent 8.9% of that parties members. He also specifically said that California doesn’t count. Way to dismiss the largest state in the Union, you assclown. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22613 "2015-06-30T03:40:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He also specifically said that California doesn’t count. Way to dismiss the largest state in the Union, you assclown. I think he was saying California doesn’t count as ‘western’, as in bumfucked flyover country western. Which yeah, ok, but what percentage of our population would count as western in Scalia’s eyes? 10%? A poster earlier got it right, Tony is truly astonished into denial that his opinion isn’t shared by not only the majority of Justices but the majority of Americans. I read an article earlier today describing what the author thought Traditional Marriage really meant to conservatives since they disregard even their own arguments for it when pressed (old, infertile and unwilling are allowed to get married so it isn’t procreation, divorce is legal along with sole custody so it isn’t ‘every child should have a mother and father’, etc.). She laid out the case that traditional marriage meant female subservience, and what gay marriage really allows is no gender roles in marriage whatsoever. That is really the crux of their beef, and it’s why straight Christians have a problem with what nonstraight nonChristians do. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22614 "2015-06-30T03:46:40Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > And…how does this contradict what I have said? Is it your contention that Anthony Kennedy is always in the majority and always steering the majority? If not, then we really don’t have a one-justice Court. So you’re modifying your original claim by replacing “lots of” with “more than zero.” Got it. BTW, O’Connor was still on the Court for 48 of those cases; like Kennedy she often joined the liberals. After her replacement with Alito, the 4-4 division became even starker. While it’s true that Kennedy joined the majority in “only” 90 of the 113 cases, the odds of this happening if one assumes votes are uncorrelated, are more than 14 million -to- one against. And, in 52 of the 113 5-4 decisions, the compositiions of the 5 and the 4 were strictly identical. Again assuming no correlation that chance of that is 500 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion -to- one against. That’s “Trillion Trillion Trillion Trillion Trillion Trillion” with six T’s. (Or if you prefer to work with smaller numbers, 500 billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion -to- one against. That’s “Billion Billion Billion Billion Billion Billion Billion Billion” with eight B’s.) ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22615 "2015-06-30T05:22:17Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > It looks like announcing his (imaginary) bid for the presidency wasn’t such a great idea: [NBC has fired Donald Trump](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TV_NBC_TRUMP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-06-29-15-30-04). Specifically, they fired him because of remarks he made regarding Mexican immigrants during his announcement of his candidacy. Rumor had it that the last words Donald heard from NBC were the following: > [@](#): > > Perdón pero no hay más trabajo, estás despedido ---
**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:** [June 30, 2015, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22616 "2015-06-30T05:53:32Z")
Vamos a ir a la cantera y tirar cosas ahí abajo! 😛 ---
**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:** [June 30, 2015, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22617 "2015-06-30T06:14:50Z")
¡Qué barbaridad ! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22618 "2015-06-30T06:45:04Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Nor your neighbor’s maidservant’s ass. So, if your neighbor hires Daeneyrs Targaryen to clean house, and she rides in on a donkey, best to just gouge your eyes out, be on the safe side. Until the day you can buy the donkey and marry him. Then it becomes okay. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22619 "2015-06-30T06:55:03Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I’m not sure if this is so much stupid as it is blatant lying, but we don’t have a “blatant Republican lie of the day” thread. > Fox guest: Charleston shooter is ‘A product of the left wing’. > [Fox Guest: Charleston Shooter Is ‘A Product Of The Left Wing’ (VIDEO) - TPM – Talking Points Memo](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kevin-jackson-fox-dylann-roof-left) Standard Fox behavior. They often discover that embarrassing Republicans, right-wingers, and other conservatives are actually Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22620 "2015-06-30T06:56:09Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > When I saw that, I figured it had to be a prelude to a retirement announcement. He’s one of those New York Catholics he was complaining about, so surely he’s planning to do the right thing and make way for some diversity. The court needs a GAY MUSLIM to replace him! ---
**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:** [June 30, 2015, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22621 "2015-06-30T13:26:37Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Standard Fox behavior. They often discover that embarrassing Republicans, right-wingers, and other conservatives are actually Democrats. And vice versa for respected liberals - did you know MLK was really a conservative Republican, for example ? [S’truth](http://humanevents.com/2006/08/16/why-martin-luther-king-was-republican/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1130) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1132)