# 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:** 121
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2401 "2010-12-14T08:42:51Z")
She made millions of American men peer into their souls are realize, to their horror, that yes, yes, they would… ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2402 "2010-12-14T15:47:46Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > OK, here’s a good one, Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips thinks we should go back to only [allowing property owners to vote](http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/30/tea-party-voting-property/): > Where the fuck do these people come from? The early 19th Century or something? Well, what would you do with a perfectly good sailing-ship-_cum_- time-machine after you’ve gotten through rescuing the Pilgrims and Puritans from socialism? Bring some right-thinking early 19th century Real Americans ™ forward to combat all this unAmerican drivel about human rights and equal justice under law, of course! To hear you lib’ruls talk, you’d think history was something static, not subject to revision by popular vote like [del]evolutionary[/del] biology! ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2403 "2010-12-14T18:37:15Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Well, what would you do with a perfectly good sailing-ship-_cum_- time-machine after you’ve gotten through rescuing the Pilgrims and Puritans from socialism? Bring some right-thinking early 19th century Real Americans ™ forward to combat all this unAmerican drivel about human rights and equal justice under law, of course! > > To hear you lib’ruls talk, you’d think history was something static, not subject to revision by popular vote like [del]evolutionary[/del] biology! Probably have to swing by 1864 to [really fix things](http://www.amazon.com/Guns-South-Harry-Turtledove/dp/0345384687). -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2404 "2010-12-20T19:27:23Z")
Stupid Republican idea of the day: put [Michelle Bachmann](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/12/17/bachmann-to-intelligence-committee/) on the House Intelligence Committee! On the plus side, this could shut her up… ---
**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:** [December 20, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2405 "2010-12-20T19:32:32Z")
Now it really _is_ an oxymoron. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2406 "2010-12-20T21:29:22Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Stupid Republican idea of the day: put [Michelle Bachmann](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/12/17/bachmann-to-intelligence-committee/) on the House Intelligence Committee! > > On the plus side, this could shut her up… Aw crap. This will do just the opposite. Now she can say any radical dimwitted thing she wants and support here position by saying that all of the evidence is classified. “I have proof that the movement to eliminate of DADT was funded by North Korea. It’s classified so I can’t show it to you, but I’ve seen it.” “I have proof that the Democratic party is really being run by terrorist-commie-Islamic-Nazi-atheists It’s classified so I can’t show it to you, but I’ve seen it.” etc. Not that having no evidence to back her up has ever stopped her before. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2407 "2010-12-21T00:05:03Z")
Here is another candidate for today: [State lawmaker wannts to ban gays from Virginia National Guard](http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/12/state-lawmaker-wants-to-ban-gays-from-virginia-national-guard/1) > [@](#): > > Two days after the U.S. Senate completed congressional repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” a Republican state lawmaker says he’ll propose banning openly gay personnel from serving in the Virginia National Guard, The Washington Post writes. > > Delegate Bob Marshall, one of the most conservative members of the state House, believes it is unconstitutional to allow gays to serve openly. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2408 "2010-12-21T00:21:17Z")
Did someone slip rep Marshall a copy of the “wacky constitution” without telling him? That could explain things. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2409 "2010-12-21T01:40:11Z")
It seems that some people think that not being discriminated against is a “special right” and hence unconstitutional. At least that’s the gist I got from the freeper forum before I grew bored with insanity and bigotry and stopped reading. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2410 "2010-12-21T01:49:43Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > It seems that some people think that not being discriminated against is a “special right” and hence unconstitutional. Indeed… [QUOTE=L. Sprague deCamp, “Lest Darkness Fall”] “You don’t like the Goths?” “No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!” “Persecution?” Padway raised his eyebrows. “Religious persecution. We won’t stand for it forever.” “But I thought the Goths let everybody worship as they pleased.” “That’s just it! We Orthodox are forced to stand around and watch Arians and Monophysites and Nestorians and Jews going about their business unmolested, as if they owned the country! If that isn’t persecution, I’d like to know what is!” [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2411 "2010-12-30T14:58:10Z")
And the “Death Panel” meme – slightly modified, but paying overt homage to its Palin-coined stupidity – [makes a comeback](http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/12/29/rationing-revealed-heart-obamacare/). ---
**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:** [December 30, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2412 "2010-12-30T17:27:36Z")
Oh sweet fucking Christ. Telling people about what their options are does not equal murdering them in their beds. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2413 "2010-12-30T17:34:25Z")
B - b - but they want to actually _pay_ them to tell people about what their options are. Those _Monsters_!!!1!!!one!!!eleventy-one! ---
**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:** [December 30, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2414 "2010-12-30T18:17:53Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Oh sweet fucking Christ. Telling people about what their options are does not equal murdering them in their beds. To be fair, murdering them in their beds IS one of the options. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2415 "2010-12-30T23:19:43Z")
Oh, here’s a new one (rather than a re-tread like I posted earlier today): Republican-controlled House rules will [require a supporting cite of Constitutional authority for every bill](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122904666.html). 'Cuz, y’know, more useless bureaucracy is sorely needed in the not-quite-most-deliberative-body. Not to mention that everyone knows how woefully inept SCotUS is (well, perhaps some would argue that’s true with the Roberts court, but never-you-mind). Worse, the fact that it’s nothing more than a superficial symbolic sop thrown to overly (and overtly!) obnoxious HCR-hatin’, birth-certificate-wantin’, socialism-fearin’ Tea Partiers. Worst of all is that that last will likely work with some. Urgh. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2416 "2010-12-30T23:25:33Z")
So, most every bill will end with the words “OK per the Commerce Clause”, except defense spending? Joe ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2417 "2010-12-30T23:27:12Z")
> [@Digital\_Stimulus](#): > > And the “Death Panel” meme – slightly modified, but paying overt homage to its Palin-coined stupidity – [makes a comeback](http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/12/29/rationing-revealed-heart-obamacare/). I don’t normally complain, but this article is coated with a layer of slime. Do you have a fresh copy? ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2418 "2010-12-31T00:29:14Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > So, most every bill will end with the words “OK per the Commerce Clause”, except defense spending? 😃 That’d be my guess. Another “new rule” (whooda thunk that House Republicans would steal Bill Maher’s schtick?) that I think most of the country would find stupid, but is politically smart on their part is [House Republican Rule Changes Pave the Way For Major Deficit-Increasing Tax Cuts, Despite Anti-Deficit Rhetoric](http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3359). Tax-cuts, the answer to any question. The hell with pay-as-you-go, deficits don’t matter! Except when they can be blamed on Democrats… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2419 "2010-12-31T01:24:46Z")
> [@Digital\_Stimulus](#): > > Republican-controlled House rules will [require a supporting cite of Constitutional authority for every bill](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122904666.html). Where in the Constitution does it give them the authority to do that? ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2420 "2010-12-31T02:45:10Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Where in the Constitution does it give them the authority to do that? Article I Section 5 Paragraph 2 > [@USC](#): > > Each House **may determine the Rules of its Proceedings** , punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member. Bolded text. I assume I was just whooshed? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=120) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=122)