# 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:** 1151
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23002 "2015-07-15T19:33:30Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > According to a [lawsuit in Texas](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-immigrants-birth-certificates), some State Health officials are refusing to issue birth certificates to the children of undocumented immigrants who are born in the US (and therefore US citizens). I bet this suit will drag on forever, but I’ll be curious how it comes out. There’s a federal angle that should keep it alive if the other legal angles don’t work out: > [@](#): > > The complaint says Texas’ actions are at odds with the 14th Amendment, which guarantees children born on U.S. soil citizenship. The suit also accuses Texas of violating the Constitution’s equal protection clause, as the policy discriminates against the immigrants and their children on the basis of the mothers’ origins, as well as the supremacy clause, which says federal law on immigration and citizenship trumps state policy. ---
**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 15, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23003 "2015-07-15T19:41:05Z")
Senator Mark Kirk [on the Iran deal](http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/sen-mark-kirk-on-iran-deal-obama-wants-to-get-nukes-to-iran#.yeNWMj3Q9): Obama wants to give Iran nuclear weapons. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23004 "2015-07-15T19:56:02Z")
Boehner: [The California drought is Obama’s fault](http://www.speaker.gov/general/ending-president-obama-s-man-made-water-shortage-california) (Even though the smelt run he’s citing was initiated under Dubya) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23005 "2015-07-15T20:03:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Boehner: [The California drought is Obama’s fault](http://www.speaker.gov/general/ending-president-obama-s-man-made-water-shortage-california) You mean to tell me climate change _can_ be caused by human activity? Clearly, Boehner has gone off the reservation and needs to be reigned in before he gets other Republicans questioning the indisputable fact that nothing human beings can possibly do is capable of affecting the climate. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23006 "2015-07-15T20:15:10Z")
Unless… unless he’s saying that… Obama’s… not actually human? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23007 "2015-07-15T20:56:43Z")
In a world… ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23008 "2015-07-15T22:52:29Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Senator Mark Kirk [on the Iran deal](http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/sen-mark-kirk-on-iran-deal-obama-wants-to-get-nukes-to-iran#.yeNWMj3Q9): Obama wants to give Iran nuclear weapons. Interesting that he’s the guy who got Obama’s Senate seat when Obama was elected President. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23009 "2015-07-15T23:24:02Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Back to Michelle, who started all this: > > [Washington State mayor compares Michelle and family to “gorillas, monkeys.”](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/mayor-wont-resign-over-gorilla-face-michelle-obama-rant-because-thats-admitting-im-racist/) But refuses to resign because that “would admit I’m racist.” Wow, look at the ears on that monkey! OK, _hominid._ Glass houses, son, glass houses. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23010 "2015-07-15T23:42:12Z")
Airway Heights, Washington, is in Eastern Washington … the wave of social change that came ashore in the '70’s crested and broke on the Cascade Mountains never reaching the Spokane area. Eisenhower Republicans … ---
**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 15, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23011 "2015-07-15T23:43:06Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Airway Heights, Washington, is in Eastern Washington … the wave of social change that came ashore in the '70’s crested and broke on the Cascade Mountains never reaching the Spokane area. > > Eisenhower Republicans … Yeah, when I saw the articles about this showing up in my FB feed, I immediately thought, “Must be the mayor of a town in eastern Washington…” And I was right! ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23012 "2015-07-15T23:54:37Z")
If this was anywhere near Seattle, this guy would have already been recalled and voted out of office. It’s a weird politic, the Cascades ain’t anything more than Appalachia, but the political differences couldn’t be more different … the bluest of the blues to the west, reddest of the reds to the east. Be careful what you call George Bush in Eastern Oregon … there’s not a cop within a hundred miles … ---
**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 16, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23013 "2015-07-16T00:24:20Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Interesting that he’s the guy who got Obama’s Senate seat when Obama was elected President. He was not deranged before his stroke. Shoulda resigned then. A problem with brain damage is that it keeps you from seeing it in yourself. I think Duckworth’s going to mop the floor with him. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23014 "2015-07-16T03:51:48Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Be careful what you call George Bush in Eastern Oregon … You know, how often does that come up? I choose not to express myself with bumper stickers ot T-shirts, and those people (my people, really, I was born on a snowy eve in Wallowa Genetal) respect that. We know there will be bitterness and animosity down that road, so we chew on the ends of our long grass stalks gone to seed and talk about things that are not fractious. Except, of course, for the occasional asshole who just has to try to push it to blows. Fuck that guy, sideways, with a porcupine. ---
**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 16, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23015 "2015-07-16T05:09:10Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > After we invade Texas, can we keep the oil? I mean, this thing could pay for itself. It worked so well in Iraq. The locals will be putting flowers in our rifle barrels. Mission accomplished. I see no down side.:dubious: ---
**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 16, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23016 "2015-07-16T05:19:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Boehner: [The California drought is Obama’s fault](http://www.speaker.gov/general/ending-president-obama-s-man-made-water-shortage-california) > > (Even though the smelt run he’s citing was initiated under Dubya) From the site: “Which is why, this week, the Republican-led Congress will act once again on legislation to provide relief and allow water resources to be managed in a way that actually makes sense. The Western Water & American Food Security Act (H.R. 2898) will, according to the Natural Resources Committee, require that federal and state agencies use the most updated available **science** in water management decisions, - See more at: [http://www.speaker.gov/general/ending-president-obama-s-man-made-water-shortage-california#sthash.6rXVNBfO.dpuf](http://www.speaker.gov/general/ending-president-obama-s-man-made-water-shortage-california#sthash.6rXVNBfO.dpuf)” Using “science”; what utter nonsense. I’m no scientist so let me weigh in on this matter. It’s all Obama’s fault and if we elect him to a third term, it’s Armageddon all over again. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23017 "2015-07-16T05:49:25Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Wow, look at the ears on that monkey! OK, _hominid._ Glass houses, son, glass houses. I think he looks like Alfred E. Neuman. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23018 "2015-07-16T05:55:33Z")
Something wrong with having superior auditory equipment? When the meteor is hurtling towards Airway Heights, Washington, he’ll be the only one who hears it coming! ---
**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:** [July 16, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23019 "2015-07-16T15:06:21Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Yes - but if he never files with the FEC, he wouldn’t be eligible for the debates. That way he can avoid the debates, and claim that he was cut out by the GOP. More publicity for him. > > I have a very classy, very beautiful hat that won’t be eating itself if he ever files. Dammit! I liked that hat, too. It was a very classy, very beautiful felt Stetson Australian cowboy hat that went well with a Yarra Valley chardonnay. Looks like I won’t be needing any fiber supplements any time soon. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23020 "2015-07-16T15:34:46Z")
> [@eulalia](#): > > I think he looks like Alfred E. Neuman. There’s a remarkable resemblance IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23021 "2015-07-16T15:59:12Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Wow, look at the ears on that monkey! OK, _hominid._ Glass houses, son, glass houses. Do we need to stoop to ad hominid attacks? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1150) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1152)