# 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:** 1171
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23402 "2015-08-03T16:19:18Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Jeb Bush’s proposal to get Congress moving; [cut their pay if they don’t vote on his agenda.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/03/3687100/jeb-bushs-weirdly-imperial-plan-to-dominate-congress/) That’s like telling your boss, if he doesn’t do it your way, you’re going to cut his salary. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23403 "2015-08-03T16:20:44Z")
[Texas Tea-Bagger indicted today.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ken-paxton-fraud_55bf7e89e4b06363d5a2ac2b?) > [@](#): > > Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Tea Party Republican, turned himself in on Monday and was booked on three felony charges involving suspected securities fraud, officials said. > > Paxton drew national attention when he said county clerks in Texas who object to gay marriage on religious grounds can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June requiring states to allow same-sex marriage. Funny how the ones that appoint themselves the moral guardians are themselves crooks. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23404 "2015-08-03T16:22:50Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > From that same link > “I’ll get it all done before breakfast,” Coulter continued. “\* could kind of guess who the criminals are going to be at least 50 percent of the time.” Isn’t this what the mathematically inclined tend to call “pure chance”? ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23405 "2015-08-03T16:53:39Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Isn’t this what the mathematically inclined tend to call “pure chance”? Each and every American will face trial by coin flip. Tails and you’re off to Mexico! ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23406 "2015-08-03T17:20:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Jeb Bush’s proposal to get Congress moving; [cut their pay if they don’t vote on his agenda.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/03/3687100/jeb-bushs-weirdly-imperial-plan-to-dominate-congress/) Could you imagine the outcry if Obama suggested such a thing? ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23407 "2015-08-03T17:42:19Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Isn’t this what the mathematically inclined tend to call “pure chance”? Actually it’s less than that, since she says she could “kinda tell”. So 50% of the time she has a (nondisclosed) chance to find a criminal. Fling pennies from the Chrysler building and arrest whoever gets tagged, you’ll probably do better. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23408 "2015-08-03T17:49:32Z")
Chances are her chances are awfully good? ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23409 "2015-08-03T18:57:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Jeb Bush’s proposal to get Congress moving; [cut their pay if they don’t vote on his agenda.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/03/3687100/jeb-bushs-weirdly-imperial-plan-to-dominate-congress/) Who cares about that minor road bump in the [US Consitution Article I Section 6](https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei#section6)? > [@](#): > > The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23410 "2015-08-03T19:16:52Z")
For a party that makes great noise about the Constitution, Republicans sure haven’t \*read \*the thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23411 "2015-08-03T19:20:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > For a party that makes great noise about the Constitution, Republicans sure haven’t \*read \*the thing. It’s next on the list after they get around to reading The Bible. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23412 "2015-08-03T19:24:47Z")
It’s interesting to me that “Skipping Work” has been on his YouTube channel for a week and has racked up a whopping 832 views and five comments. Three of those five comments are saying how stupid the idea is. Most of the videos on his channel have fewer than 1000 views. I don’t hang around YouTube that much – is it typical for candidates to not get a lot of views on their campaign videos? I would have expected more action on them, but \ I dunno. ETA: In contrast, none of Clinton’s videos have fewer than 1000 views, and most are over 10,000. Not that that translates into votes, but the difference is kind of striking. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23413 "2015-08-03T19:34:06Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > For a party that makes great noise about the Constitution, Republicans sure haven’t \*read \*the thing. But that doesn’t stop them from wanting to tinker with it all the time. Not a week goes by that some Republican somewhere floats the idea of another constitutional amendment for one lame cause or another. It is clear they are not happy with it just the way it is. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23414 "2015-08-03T20:37:06Z")
No one is fully happy with the Constitution the way it is. That’s the genius of the damned thing: it’s a compromise from the word go. The electoral college is particularly nasty, hugely violating the ideal of “one voter, one vote.” The nice chap in Wyoming gets three for every one (1.037) I get. But so long as a hefty minority always agrees that most proposed changes would actually make things worse, it isn’t going to change much. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23415 "2015-08-03T21:29:38Z")
Scott Walker was tricked into posing with a giant check for $900 million from the Koch Brothers. > ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23416 "2015-08-03T21:32:39Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Scott Walker was tricked into posing with a giant check for $900 million from the Koch Brothers. > [x.com](https://twitter.com/SabrinaSiddiqui/status/628226575796957184/photo/1) To be a fly on the wall when he found out the check wasn’t real. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23417 "2015-08-03T21:40:05Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > To be a fly on the wall when he found out the check wasn’t real. In case it isn’t clear to anyone (maybe some can’t see the image for some reason), Walker thought that he was posing with a sign that said “Walker 4 President” but the prankster then flipped it so that the other side (the fake check) was facing the camera. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23418 "2015-08-03T22:58:00Z")
Poses an interesting question: would it be more cost effective for the Kochs to buy a President or just rent one? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23419 "2015-08-03T23:30:30Z")
I’d have to say rent. 100% depreciation after at most 8 years makes the buy side seem uneconomic. Unless they get write off the depreciation, then it might work out . . . ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23420 "2015-08-03T23:36:55Z")
Oh, most certainly they will, the enabling provision will be tucked away in the Patriotic Goodness of Liberty and Freedom Bill. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23421 "2015-08-04T00:39:50Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Poses an interesting question: would it be more cost effective for the Kochs to buy a President or just rent one? Remember the 3 "F"s. If it flies, floats, or fucks - don’t buy, rent. I would say POTUS qualifies under the “fucks” category. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1170) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1172)