# 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:** 1215
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24282 "2015-09-15T07:14:10Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > I thought that must be a fake news / “satire” site. I guess not. That is…simply amazing. Nope, lots of varied hits on Google for this story. The state office, of course, denies the firing has anything to do with anything church-related. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24283 "2015-09-15T12:33:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [House Science and Technology Committee sends a letter to the White House demanding to know why the White House has not replied to their letter demanding answers on ozone regulations. Turns out, they never sent the letter with the questions first.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/12/1420137/-Republicans-send-letter-demanding-Obama-administration-respond-to-letter-they-didn-t-send) Actually, when you read the article, it’s apparently even more stupid than that. They prepared the letter with questions _and_ a snotty “why didn’t you answer our questions satisfactorily?” letter simultaneously and then sent the wrong one. It’s like a two act play of outrage theater where they forgot to stage the first act. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24284 "2015-09-15T13:20:24Z")
[quote=“TonySinclair, post:24278, topic:490897”] She’s an inspiration to women everywhere, such as: [/QUOTE] I never understood the supposed sex appeal of Mrs. Mooselini. However when I’m sent to Gitmo for sedition I hope that, stupid or not, [the 2007 edition of Caitlin Upton](http://www.straitpinkie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Caitlin-Upton-08290702.jpg) is assigned as my torturer. I’d be less enthused about the [2014 version of Ms. Upton](http://fatworld.wikia.com/wiki/Caitlin_Upton): > [@](#): > > In the years following … [becoming] an internet meme for her rambling and unstructured response to a pageant question … Upton gained over 200 pounds and currently weighs 560 pounds. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24285 "2015-09-15T13:25:03Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Actually, when you read the article, it’s apparently even more stupid than that. They prepared the letter with questions _and_ a snotty “why didn’t you answer our questions satisfactorily?” letter simultaneously and then sent the wrong one. It’s like a two act play of outrage theater where they forgot to stage the first act. To be fair to the GOP, they were acting to improve government efficiency: > [@](#): > > Republican aides … contended it was reasonable to predict they’d be unsatisfied with the response [to the unsent letter], based on past experience. > > Good save, Republican aides. Sure it looks a little bad, but in the end isn’t sending the obnoxious version first just the most efficient use of everybody’s time? ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24286 "2015-09-15T13:45:47Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I never understood the supposed sex appeal of Mrs. Mooselini. However when I’m sent to Gitmo for sedition I hope that, stupid or not, [the 2007 edition of Caitlin Upton](http://www.straitpinkie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Caitlin-Upton-08290702.jpg) is assigned as my torturer. > > I’d be less enthused about the [2014 version of Ms. Upton](http://fatworld.wikia.com/wiki/Caitlin_Upton): I’m not trying to hijack this thread but that’s not real. It’s a site dedicated to photo-shopping celebrities to make them appear um… bigger than they are. It’s apparently for fetishists who are into that type of thing. The fact that such a site exists could be the subject of a whole other pit thread. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24287 "2015-09-15T13:48:40Z")
> [@bosbfdsfd](#): > > Hey, whatever keeps Muslims, liberals’ favorite religious fanatics, out of the country. Fair enough. We’ve got our hands full with the moronic right-wingers who are already here. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24288 "2015-09-15T14:00:20Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I’m not trying to hijack this thread but that’s not real. It’s a site dedicated to photo-shopping celebrities to make them appear um… bigger than they are. It’s apparently for fetishists who are into that type of thing. The fact that such a site exists could be the subject of a whole other pit thread. :smack: :eek: So I was whoooooshed. I should have suspected nonsense with “Upton gained over 200 pounds and currently weighs 560 pounds” … meaning she was a slender 360 pounds as a sexy teen. I’ll blame Google. Googling for images of Caitlyn Upton mostly gave me Kate Upton (whom I’d definitely accept as my torturer). ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24289 "2015-09-15T14:23:28Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Googling for images of Caitlyn Upton mostly gave me Kate Upton (whom I’d definitely accept as my torturer). Watching those horrible “Game of War” commercials she’s in is torture enough. No amount of boobage can make up for endlessly-repeated overblown ads pushing a shitty app. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24290 "2015-09-15T14:28:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Watching those horrible “Game of War” commercials she’s in is torture enough. No amount of boobage can make up for endlessly-repeated overblown ads pushing a shitty app. I don’t know – endlessly repeated ads featuring impressive cleavage become an end in themselves, regardless of what they’re pushing. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24291 "2015-09-15T14:36:46Z")
It seems she’s now a Realtor in Brentwood, California. If you’re curious, she’s on Linkdin. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24292 "2015-09-15T14:43:41Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > It seems she’s now a Realtor in Brentwood, California. If you’re curious, she’s on Linkdin. She certainly has vast tracts of land. Rolling hillsides, as it were. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > I don’t know – endlessly repeated ads featuring impressive cleavage become an end in themselves, regardless of what they’re pushing. They were sure pushing the limits of that fabric. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24293 "2015-09-15T15:00:59Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Actually, when you read the article, it’s apparently even more stupid than that. They prepared the letter with questions _and_ a snotty “why didn’t you answer our questions satisfactorily?” letter simultaneously and then sent the wrong one. It’s like a two act play of outrage theater where they forgot to stage the first act. Hey now, nobody chastises Richard Nixon for drafting two speeches on the moon landing. Perhaps we should take a page out of this playbook and start prepping responses for any and every potential scenario within the multiverse. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24294 "2015-09-15T15:14:05Z")
> [@bosbfdsfd](#): > > Hey, whatever keeps Muslims, liberals’ favorite religious fanatics, out of the country. > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Fair enough. We’ve got our hands full with the moronic right-wingers who are already here. I swear to God (the Christian God, not Kim Davis’s) that this is one of the first times I’ve been totally Poe’d or whooshed (Pwooshed) by that first post. That would have sounded perfectly natural coming out of Steven Colbert in his heyday. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24295 "2015-09-15T15:23:12Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Hey now, nobody chastises Richard Nixon for drafting two speeches on the moon landing. Perhaps we should take a page out of this playbook and start prepping responses for any and every potential scenario within the multiverse. I think there could have been some chastisement if Nixon had actually read the wrong speech. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24296 "2015-09-15T15:37:10Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Hey now, nobody chastises Richard Nixon for drafting two speeches on the moon landing. Perhaps we should take a page out of this playbook and start prepping responses for any and every potential scenario within the multiverse. [Only two?](https://xkcd.com/1484/) ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24297 "2015-09-15T15:42:30Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Does it provide one point twenty one JIGAWATTS of power? Well at full tilt of 590,000 bbl per day, that’s 3.458x10^15 joules per day, or 40,023,148,148 joules per second, so 40 giga watts or so. ( 1 BOE = 6.1GJ) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24298 "2015-09-15T16:18:35Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [Only two?](https://xkcd.com/1484/) Reminiscent of Dana Carvey (as Ted Koppel), recording obituaries for Gerald Ford (eaten by wolves, died in a hail of gunfire…) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24299 "2015-09-15T17:02:08Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Reminiscent of Dana Carvey (as Ted Koppel), recording obituaries for Gerald Ford (eaten by wolves, died in a hail of gunfire…) [“Just covering our bases, Tom… you never know.”](http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tom-brokaw-pre-tapes/n10894) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24300 "2015-09-15T18:00:21Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I don’t know – endlessly repeated ads featuring impressive cleavage become an end in themselves, regardless of what they’re pushing. I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24301 "2015-09-15T18:47:06Z")
[Many Pubs would welcome a military coup.](http://www.salon.com/2015/09/15/the_republican_bases_patriotic_treason_the_shocking_new_poll_that_exposes_the_dangerous_extremism_of_the_american_right/) > [@](#): > > In those days [the W Admin], Republicans believed that government and military leaders were heroic protectors of all we hold dear. But even as kitschy as Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” performance was, and as overweening as the GOP’s patriotic love of men in uniform, that statement above is a remarkable validation of the American dedication to the concept of civilian control of the military. He might have been wearing a fake uniform (he liked to do that) but they acknowledged and respected him for his political leadership. > > Something seems to have changed their minds. According to this new YouGov poll, these same patriotic Republicans still love the military passionately but are no longer attached to that moldy old concept of civilian control: > > > [@](#): > > > > “Republicans (43%) are more than twice as likely as Democrats (20%) to say that they could conceive of a situation in which they would support a military coup in the United States.” > > More to the point, only 32 percent of Republicans state unequivocally that they would not conceive of a situation in which they would support a military coup. One would be tempted to think this is simply a matter of partisanship, but there is no evidence that Democrats have ever entertained the notion of a military coup, no matter who was president, even one as widely loathed as George W. Bush. It’s as “un-American” as it gets. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1214) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1216)