# 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:** 1139
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22762 "2015-07-07T20:53:33Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > What an offensive simile. It’s really closer to 50% rape. You **love** paying taxes, bitch, admit it! ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22763 "2015-07-07T22:34:19Z")
How does Trump say with a straight face that he has great respect for Mexico while accusing them of the worst crimes and a conspiracy in the same statement? The guy’s egomania and distortions know no bounds ---
**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:** [July 7, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22764 "2015-07-07T23:07:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > You **love** paying taxes, bitch, admit it! I deserve it, too, the way I dress my money. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22765 "2015-07-08T00:11:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Bill before the Wisconsin state legislature would allow employers to require their employees to work seven days a week.](http://gawker.com/wisconsin-is-trying-to-take-away-the-right-to-a-weekend-1716293116) The text of your link (and of the bill itself) directly contradicts your assertion: > [@](#): > > Include the provisions of 2015 AB 118 to permit an employee to state in writing that he or she voluntarily chooses to work without one day of rest in seven. So it has to be voluntary; it’s totally not something an employer can require. BWAHAHAHAHA! Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! Ddamn, I thought I was gonna be able to type that with a straight face, but haha no way! That shit is too funny! Yeah, I’m sure if this passes it’ll be totally voluntary, with no employer’s firing or threatening to fire any employ who declines to “volunteer” for 7 day work weeks. Surely the bill will include stiff sanctions for any employer who coerces or attempts to coerce an employee, right? \ Hmmmm… nope, I guess I’m wrong: there seems to be no penalty for coercing an employee into “volunteering” to work 7 days per week. Yeah, it’s that kind of policymaking and enacting that is gonna launch Scott Walker into the White House, and usher in a new Golden Age of prosperity for 'Merica. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22766 "2015-07-08T00:19:17Z")
Not exactly a “stupid idea of the day” but I ran across this quote and this seemed the appropriate venue to share it. “Here the big battles were being fought-against revised versions of the Bible, fluoridation, dirty books on school library shelves. The people of Garden Grove cared enough about the future of their country to pass an ordinance prohibiting the sale of UNICEF Christmas cards. At PTA and school board meetings in a dozen communities, women had the courage to stand up and reveal how Democrats were building barbed-wire stockades in Alaska to imprison all conservatives.” The Last Days of the Late Great State of California-Curt Gentry-1968 That’s how you know that they’re conservatives. They won’t even come up with new material. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22767 "2015-07-08T00:24:14Z")
They are _conserving_ their material. Reduce, re-use, and recycle, right? ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22768 "2015-07-08T01:50:28Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > You **love** paying taxes, bitch, admit it! Hatred for paying taxes is central to GOP ideology. I’m surprised some of the red states don’t yet have rectal ultrasounds as a mandatory part of the tax-filing process. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22769 "2015-07-08T01:54:05Z")
The latest from fading troll Sarah Palin - A new book, “Sweet Freedom: A Devotional”, Palin’s fourth, will feature 260 “meditations” that apply “biblical principles” to contemporary issues. > **[New Sarah Palin book coming in November](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2015/07/07/new-sarah-palin-book-coming-in-november/29815717/)** > > It's called 'Sweet Freedom: A Devotional.' A gal’s got to make a living. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22770 "2015-07-08T02:23:49Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > The latest from fading troll Sarah Palin - A new book, “Sweet Freedom: A Devotional”, Palin’s fourth, will feature 260 “meditations” that apply “biblical principles” to contemporary issues. > > [New Sarah Palin book coming in November](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2015/07/07/new-sarah-palin-book-coming-in-november/29815717/) > > A gal’s got to make a living. Well, hell, what’s Toddy doing these days? Isn’t he performing his Biblical function of being head of the household, breadwinner, and family priest? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22771 "2015-07-08T03:26:19Z")
Shouldn’t there be a devotion for every day of the year? Or is the new Palin calendar 105 days short? Are those days left for resting because thinking is hard? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22772 "2015-07-08T03:27:58Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Shouldn’t there be a devotion for every day of the year? Or is the new Palin calendar 105 days short? Are those days left for resting because thinking is hard? Actually, since she’s from Alaska, there should really only be one day in that book… ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22773 "2015-07-08T03:49:39Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Shouldn’t there be a devotion for every day of the year? Or is the new Palin calendar 105 days short? Are those days left for resting because thinking is hard? Fifty-two weeks of Mondays through Fridays. Weekends is fer cuttin’ loose and engaging in family-oriented activities, like barroom brawls… ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22774 "2015-07-08T10:46:11Z")
> [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > As a side note, I watched a video on China’s “gutter oil” problem, where street vendors and low-end restaurants cook their food in carcinogenic bio-oils that are literally dredged from the gutters and sewers. One funny comment: “Dear Libertarians: this is how a totally free market actually works.” That only tangentially applies to Rand Paul’s philosophy but it made me laugh (and I don’t know where else to share that anecdote), so there you go. I’ve heard about that too. And now the Free Market of Texas can work that way also. Texas Supreme Court rules against workplace and consumer safety regulations, in favor of The Free Market. [Texas Could Become an Even More Dangerous Place – The state Supreme Court just gave itself the power to strike down health and safety regulations it finds “oppressive”](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/07/texas_supreme_court_strikes_down_eyebrow_threading_regulations_return_to.html), Mark Joseph Stern, Slate, July 7, 2015. > [@](#): > > Threading eyebrows can be a dangerous business. Without proper sanitation, threading—a form of hair removal that uses thin strings to shape eyebrows—can spread highly contagious bacterial and viral infections, including flat warts, pink eye, ringworm, and staph. For that reason, Texas required threaders to undergo 750 hours of training in order to practice their craft professionally, the same amount of training that other cosmetology specialists must receive. > > But threaders didn’t like all that training—so they asked the Texas Supreme Court to simply strike the regulation down. In late June, the court obliged. It granted itself the power to strike down any health and safety laws it deems “oppressive.” > > The startling decision revives a dangerous, widely discredited doctrine that gives judges authority to strike down economic regulations that interfere with the free market. By resuscitating it, the Texas Supreme Court has effectively declared that laissez-faire capitalism is the only true form of American liberty. > > \< . . . \> ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22775 "2015-07-08T11:00:12Z")
I don’t think we need to worry - Texas has an excellent industrial [safety](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_explosion) [record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion). What could go wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22776 "2015-07-08T13:29:08Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > [Texas Could Become an Even More Dangerous Place – The state Supreme Court just gave itself the power to strike down health and safety regulations it finds “oppressive”](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/07/texas_supreme_court_strikes_down_eyebrow_threading_regulations_return_to.html), Mark Joseph Stern, Slate, July 7, 2015. > [@](#): > > Threading eyebrows can be a dangerous business. Without proper sanitation, threading—a form of hair removal that uses thin strings to shape eyebrows—can spread highly contagious bacterial and viral infections, including flat warts, pink eye, ringworm, and staph. For that reason, Texas required threaders to undergo 750 hours of training in order to practice their craft professionally, the same amount of training that other cosmetology specialists must receive. > > But threaders didn’t like all that training—so they asked the Texas Supreme Court to simply strike the regulation down. In late June, the court obliged. It granted itself the power to strike down any health and safety laws it deems “oppressive.” You know, I’m tempted to give them this one. I haven’t seen the syllabus, but 750 hours seems like a excessive amount of time to teach “Wash your damn hands”. Then again, in Texas, an oppressive health and safety law probably constitutes prohibiting dumping fracking byproducts in people’s living rooms. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22777 "2015-07-08T14:11:40Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Shouldn’t there be a devotion for every day of the year? Or is the new Palin calendar 105 days short? Are those days left for resting because thinking is hard? There were going to be 365, but being Sarah Palin, she quit part way through. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22778 "2015-07-08T15:27:25Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > There were going to be 365, but being Sarah Palin, she quit part way through. Methinks there should be a poll — or at least a pre-poll survey — for “fifty all time great SRIOTD posts” (Og knows there’s plenty of material). Anyway, this post would definitely be in the running. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22779 "2015-07-08T15:56:11Z")
Maine Governor Paul LePage apparently doesn’t understand how pocket vetos work and ended up allowing bills he opposed to pass. > **[LePage attempts to ‘pocket veto’ remaining bills](https://www.bangordailynews.com/2015/07/07/politics/lepage-attempts-to-pocket-veto-remaining-bills/)** > > AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage has thrown a new wrench into the gears of the Legislature, this time with a move to “pocket veto” at least 19 bills, > [@](#): > > On Tuesday, the state’s revisor of statutes, Suzanne Gresser, confirmed 19 bills had not been returned to her office by LePage after the 10-day timeframe for LePage to veto or sign the legislation had passed. Without having taken any action, the bills should have returned to Gresser to be chaptered — the official process for becoming law. > > When asked about the delay, LePage spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett pointed to a section from “ Maine’s Path of Legislation,” a publication by the clerk of the House and secretary of the Senate, which outlined the process of the pocket veto. > > If a Legislature is in session and the governor does not sign a bill or veto it within 10 days of receiving it, the bill becomes law. But, if a Legislature adjourns for the year before the 10-day window for a governor to act on legislation has elapsed and the governor does not sign the bill, it dies. > > … > > The only hangup is the Legislature has not adjourned. Knowing it needed to give LePage up to 10 days to act on bills it has passed, the House and Senate on June 30 went “at ease” until July 16. By then, LePage would have had to act. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22780 "2015-07-08T16:09:11Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Maine Governor Paul LePage apparently doesn’t understand how pocket vetos work and ended up allowing bills he opposed to pass. > [http://bangordailynews.com/2015/07/07/politics/lepage-attempts-to-pocket-veto-remaining-bills/](http://bangordailynews.com/2015/07/07/politics/lepage-attempts-to-pocket-veto-remaining-bills/) This is my favorite story of the day. Heckuva job, LePage-ie! ---
**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:** [July 8, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22781 "2015-07-08T16:55:39Z")
LA Gov. Bobby Jindal “The Confederate flag is a symbol of my heritage” [http://conservativefrontline.com/la-gov-bobby-jindal-the-confederate-flag-is-a-symbol-of-my-heritage/](http://conservativefrontline.com/la-gov-bobby-jindal-the-confederate-flag-is-a-symbol-of-my-heritage/) > [@](#): > > While discussing the historic South Carolina Senate vote to have the flag removed from statehouse grounds, Jindal told Hemmer, “Like the same-sex marriage issue, I believe this should be decided on by the states, not the courts. Let the people’s voices be heard. Like many others who hail from the great Creole state, the Confederate flag is a symbol of my heritage, and that heritage has nothing to do with racism or hate.” He’s a direct descendent of Robert E. Lee himself! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1138) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1140)