# 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:** 1217
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24322 "2015-09-16T01:15:22Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Ok, this is not stupid in the veign of this thread, but [to hear mrs Mooselini talk](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/10/1420001/-Sarah-Palin-confounds-Rachel-Maddow-Tell-me-what-this-means?detail=emailclassic), > _So up there in Alaska, across the way Russia. You know there is a name for this taking advantage of America. There is a Russian name for that. And it is called ‘fortushka.’ And that means Obama’s window of opportunity. So as Obama leads from behind the skirt of his right-hand man, Valerie Jarrett, then it’s up to Congress to close that window. He may propose. You dispose, Congress. You gotta be in it to win it because we want peace. With unapologetic mighty red, white, and blue, will have peace._ > > Sorry, what? Word-things 93 Saraħ 0 > > (And that Russian word? The closest I could find was «вертушка», which gets translated to “whirligig”) It’s like Batshit MadLibs. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24323 "2015-09-16T01:36:15Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Early-onset Alzheimer’s. Seriously. Nah, that’s exactly how I used to sound back in the days when I started drinking at breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24324 "2015-09-16T03:57:04Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Nah, that’s exactly how I used to sound back in the days when I started drinking at breakfast. Well, that’s **early,** idinit? ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24325 "2015-09-16T14:08:19Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Is ‘Islamic’ the new ‘shiftless’ ? No, ‘Islamic’ (and ‘Muslim’) is still the new “nigger”. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24326 "2015-09-16T20:51:29Z")
[Republicans being impeachment proceedings against the head of the EPA because she used science in her testimony.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/15/republicans-file-to-impeach-epa-head-for-trying-to-protect-environment/) ---
**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:** [September 17, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24327 "2015-09-17T00:08:46Z")
\*begin ---
**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:** [September 17, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24328 "2015-09-17T18:56:57Z")
That bitch ! Doesn’t she know science causes global warming ?! It’s true. The more scientists do science stuff on the environment, the more they talk about climate change. There’s a definite correlation. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24329 "2015-09-17T21:07:44Z")
“Correlation” sounds awfully scientificky… GIT THE ROPE, boys. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24330 "2015-09-17T21:14:00Z")
No, no, you got it all wrong. Your cousin is a _relation_, the guy she married is a _co-relation_. Its all about not making babies that grow up to be drummers. ---
**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 17, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24331 "2015-09-17T22:14:19Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Republicans being impeachment proceedings against the head of the EPA because she used science in her testimony.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/15/republicans-file-to-impeach-epa-head-for-trying-to-protect-environment/) That’s a bit misleading. The move to impeach her is bad enough without overstating things. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24332 "2015-09-17T23:05:25Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > babies that grow up to be drummers. Make up your mind, they can’t do both. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24333 "2015-09-18T03:11:36Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > That’s a bit misleading. The move to impeach her is bad enough without overstating things. No, that’s not misleading at all. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24334 "2015-09-18T03:43:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Republicans being impeachment proceedings against the head of the EPA because she used science in her testimony.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/15/republicans-file-to-impeach-epa-head-for-trying-to-protect-environment/) [Gosar’s articles of impeachment](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-resolution/417/text) accuse McCarthy of presenting false information to congressional committees on February 4, July 9 and July 29 of this year (the last one he calls “perjury”). Anyone know what testimony he is referencing there? ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24335 "2015-09-18T05:00:09Z")
Can I put $5 on climate change? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24336 "2015-09-18T05:50:30Z")
[Better make it ten](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/17/jeb-bush-wants-margaret-thatcher-on-a-10-bill-brits-are-bemused/), Baroness. ---
**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 18, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24337 "2015-09-18T09:24:59Z")
[A “scholar” from the right-wing Manhattan Institute “think” tank claims that crime rates have risen because Obama has encouraged riots against mythical cop misbheavior](http://video.foxnews.com/v/4492108726001/is-legal-order-beginning-to-fray-in-america/?intcmp=obnetwork#sp=show-clips). Instead [Wikipedia shows that violent crime has fallen from a rate of 492 to 387 between 2007 and 2012, the lowest rate 1970](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States). I didn’t waste much Googling to check 2013, 2014 but did see that the FBI claims “The first six months of 2014 saw a drop in violent crimes and property crimes.” Right-wing “think” tanks. Fox “News.” They’d be laughable if they weren’t so infuriating. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24338 "2015-09-18T14:15:31Z")
Maybe they should forget debates and settle the nomination battle [this way](http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/09/18/punch-thrown-gop-mackinac-confab-begins/72385606/): > [@](#): > > A huge Republican political gathering on Mackinac Island got under way Thursday night with a barroom incident in which a top official for presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio allegedly threw a punch at a Michigan consultant working for Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. > > The alleged incident took place at Horn’s Bar, a popular nightspot on Mackinac Island, which hosts the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, which is held every other year and has drawn six GOP presidential hopefuls this year… ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24339 "2015-09-18T14:56:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > [Gosar’s articles of impeachment](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-resolution/417/text) accuse McCarthy of presenting false information to congressional committees on February 4, July 9 and July 29 of this year (the last one he calls “perjury”). Anyone know what testimony he is referencing there? I found [http://www.epa.gov/ocir/hearings/testimony/Currentsession/index.htm](http://www.epa.gov/ocir/hearings/testimony/Currentsession/index.htm) has a listing of EPA testimonials. There’s only this one from the 29th of July [http://www.epa.gov/ocir/pdf/2015\_7.29\_NSPS%20ESATestimonyForHNR.FINAL.pdf](http://www.epa.gov/ocir/pdf/2015_7.29_NSPS%20ESATestimonyForHNR.FINAL.pdf) Wonderfully innocuous except for " I would note that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time… The risks are clear…high costs of climate inaction are clear" Assuming that’s the actual issue. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24340 "2015-09-18T16:24:24Z")
During the debates, JEB! claimed the GWB kept Americans safe. The next day he posted [this to his twitter. It is still there.](http://images.dailykos.com/images/164951/large/Bushpile.jpg?1442507197) Ayeup, that is a picture of GWB standing atop the bodies of 3000 people he kept safe during his presidency by not listening to the previous administrations warnings about bin Laden. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24341 "2015-09-18T16:52:48Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > During the debates, JEB! claimed the GWB kept Americans safe. The next day he posted [this to his twitter. It is still there.](http://images.dailykos.com/images/164951/large/Bushpile.jpg?1442507197) > > Ayeup, that is a picture of GWB standing atop the bodies of 3000 people he kept safe during his presidency by not listening to the previous administrations warnings about bin Laden. Also, GWB failed to keep safe the thousands of soldiers who died during his stupid war of choice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1216) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1218)