# 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:** 116
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2301 "2010-11-03T19:00:24Z")
This is a great precedent. I can’t wait for the follow up amendment to ban the consideration of Biblical Law as well. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2302 "2010-11-03T19:33:21Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > This is a great precedent. I can’t wait for the follow up amendment to ban the consideration of Biblical Law as well. Looks like they already got that covered: [http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/03/law-professor-ban-on-sharia-law-a-mess/](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/03/law-professor-ban-on-sharia-law-a-mess/) I am shocked, shocked I say, to hear that there may be some unintended consequences. I am greatly saddened by it. 😛 ---
**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:** [November 3, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2303 "2010-11-03T20:15:03Z")
> [@howye](#): > > Looks like they already got that covered: > > [http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/03/law-professor-ban-on-sharia-law-a-mess/](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/03/law-professor-ban-on-sharia-law-a-mess/) > > I am shocked, shocked I say, to hear that there may be some unintended consequences. I am greatly saddened by it. 😛 Why, _WHY_ do I still read user comments on articles like that?! ---
**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:** [November 12, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2304 "2010-11-12T12:13:39Z")
Tennessee lawmaker [calls illegal immigrants ‘rats’](http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/12/tennessee.lawmaker.remark/) > [@](#): > > [Tennessee State Rep. Curry Todd](http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/house/members/h95.html) made the statement this week during a fiscal review committee meeting when lawmakers were questioning state officials about money expenditures. > > … > > Todd asked a panel of prenatal health care officials if patients have to show proof of citizenship before getting state-funded help. > > The official replied that unborn children automatically become American citizens after birth. > > “There’s a technical guidance letter that states that, for covering the unborn child, we are not permitted to determine citizenship because the child, once born, is a U.S. citizen,” an official told him. > > Todd then remarked: “They can go out there like rats and multiply, then.” ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2305 "2010-11-12T13:20:50Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Tennessee lawmaker [calls illegal immigrants ‘rats’](http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/12/tennessee.lawmaker.remark/) Mmm… I’m going to disagree over this one. Sure, what he said was in no way flattering, but he didn’t call illegal immigrants rats. He used a simile, and it was perfectly appropriate to convey the message he wished to convey. It’s in the same vein as Obama making a metaphor to backseat drivers and getting called out for racism for alluding to throwing people in the back of the bus. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2306 "2010-11-12T13:41:09Z")
The Rick Scott campaign decided to pay their staff in gift cards for some reason. I love the guy,who worked for the Republicans campaign, interviewed on the subject when asked about how he felt replied ‘going Democrat’ This is also a great opportunity to plug Rachel Maddows new segment which I love [Debunktion Junction](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#40120979). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2307 "2010-11-12T15:26:09Z")
Supposedly their Tampa area operation was unable to issue checks. Wonder if Scott was just regifting. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2308 "2010-11-12T16:15:50Z")
These Floridians, they do know that they elected a crook to be governor, right? Maybe the just admire the _chutzpah_. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2309 "2010-11-12T16:54:45Z")
We’re hoping he can balance our state budget by bilking Medicare again. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2310 "2010-11-12T16:57:40Z")
Hey! That’s so crazy, it just might work! ---
**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:** [November 12, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2311 "2010-11-12T17:18:13Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > These Floridians, they do know that they elected a crook to be governor, right? Maybe the just admire the _chutzpah_. They still have a way to go to catch up with Illinois, though. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2312 "2010-11-12T19:32:06Z")
There is a rumor floating about the interwebs that Rep. Louis Gohmert, Republican from Texas, is warning us all of the threat of terrorist Muslim women smuggling bombs onto airplanes by way of tampons. [http://www.redesign.rumormiller.com/story.php?title=gops-gohmert-warns-tsa-about-tampon-bombers](http://www.redesign.rumormiller.com/story.php?title=gops-gohmert-warns-tsa-about-tampon-bombers) Your correspondent forcefully reminds that this is but another scurrilous rumor, and he in no wise vouches for the authenticity or veracity of this rumor, save that it is Louis Goober, and there is no such thing as too crazy for a Texas Republican. Further, as a Doper of proven decorum and propriety, he firmly enjoins all fellow Dopers of refinement and maturity to abstain from tasteless and vulgar jokes involving female genitalia and explosive devices. That would be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2313 "2010-11-12T20:15:30Z")
I have to see a video of this appearance on _Fox and Friends_. As much as I enjoy laughing at idiotic right-wingers, that exchange between Gretchen Carlson and Gohmert seems unbelievable. And I hope it really didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2314 "2010-11-12T20:30:12Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > There is a rumor floating about the interwebs that Rep. Louis Gohmert, Republican from Texas, is warning us all of the threat of terrorist Muslim women smuggling bombs onto airplanes by way of tampons. I"m pretty sure this “quote” from Gohmert illustrates that this is (as they say) a joke, son, a joke: > [@](#): > > “Gretchen I’m over at the TSA everyday screaming bloody murder over these tampon bombs and **I’m going to give them a monthly visit** until TSA has put in appropriate procedures to counter this growing tampon threat.” Bolding mine. I mean _come on!_ ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2315 "2010-11-12T20:33:08Z")
I gotta be honest … that article sounds like total bullshit to me. A fuse between her legs? What did she have her burkha hiked up and her knickers down like a good like Muslim girl should? And how the hell do you have the FBI arrest someone immediately after the flight for the offence of confusing an idiot? Did he have the FBI/Bat-signal fired us so the agents would know which gate to report to at the airport? Seriously, methinks that article is satire or something. Or is it I who is being completley whooshed here? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2316 "2010-11-12T20:37:23Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I"m pretty sure this “quote” from Gohmert illustrates that this is (as they say) a joke, son, a joke: > > Bolding mine. I mean _come on!_ That’s a dead giveaway. He’s whooshing us. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2317 "2010-11-12T21:16:05Z")
Yeah it’s kinda sad though, you say something like that about Louis Gohmert and it’s hard to determine if it’s fabricated or not. He is just that freaking crazy. The name of the site ‘rumormiller’ before I clicked and read the article I thought might be a give away. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2318 "2010-11-12T21:24:08Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > The Rick Scott campaign decided to pay their staff in gift cards for some reason. > > I love the guy,who worked for the Republicans campaign, interviewed on the subject when asked about how he felt replied ‘going Democrat’ > > This is also a great opportunity to plug Rachel Maddows new segment which I love [Debunktion Junction](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#40120979). > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Supposedly their Tampa area operation was unable to issue checks. Wonder if Scott was just regifting. > [@elucidator](#): > > These Floridians, they do know that they elected a crook to be governor, right? Maybe the just admire the _chutzpah_. > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > We’re hoping he can balance our state budget by bilking Medicare again. > [@elucidator](#): > > Hey! That’s so crazy, it just might work! I wish I could think of something funny to say. But I live in Florida-- and sadly, there’s no longer anything funny about that. _Grim, grotesque, idiotic, frightening, yes. Funny, no._ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2319 "2010-11-12T21:37:08Z")
Remember, Rick Scott eats babies, and that’s worth a chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2320 "2010-11-12T22:49:03Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Remember, Rick Scott eats babies, and that’s worth a chuckle. Despite your herculean efforts, I am still unable to laugh. _Sigh_. Thanks for trying though. Frankly, I’m afraid he just might. Children and adults, too. I mean, have you looked into his eyes? \ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=115) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=117)