# 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:** 1218
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24342 "2015-09-18T17:08:16Z")
> [@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. It was infuriating that not one of the other candidates reminded Bush about 9/11 and how THAT happened on his brother’s watch. And the fact that the audience applauded when Bush said that ---
**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, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24343 "2015-09-18T17:16:11Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > It was infuriating that not one of the other candidates reminded Bush about 9/11 and how THAT happened on his brother’s watch. And the fact that the audience applauded when Bush said that What’s infuriating is that, not only is he not getting called on this bullshit, but he’s using the burial ground of his brother’s mistakes as a poster. It took a while of me searching to make sure this wasn’t an ad for his opposition. I would not be surprised if [this is JEB!'s next campaign poster.](http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l363/myheartbelongsinnola/bush_fishing_new_orleans.jpg) ---
**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, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24344 "2015-09-18T17:46:02Z")
[Catholic GOP congressman will boycott Pope Francis’s congressional address over climate change.](http://www.salon.com/2015/09/18/catholic_gop_congressman_will_boycott_pope_franciss_congressional_address_over_climate_change/) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24345 "2015-09-18T17:52:34Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > During the debates, JEB! claimed the GWB kept Americans safe. If we’re going to be addressing stupidity from the debate, we could be typing all day. But it was probably the brief addressing of climate change that spiked my blood pressure the most. [Rubio, for example:](http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/09/republican-debate-cnn-climate-fact-check-rubio-walker-christie) > [@](#): > > “We’re not going to destroy our economy the way the left-wing government we’re under wants to do,” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said. “Every proposal they put forward are proposals that will make it harder to do business in America, that will make it harder to create jobs in America.” . You could write a Master’s thesis on the stupidity in those two sentences, starting with the assumption that we have a left-wing government and continuing straight on to the “wanting to destroy the economy” (which I guess means that they bailed us out of the 2008 mess just to make it more challenging or something). But let’s ignore the red meat and think about the substance, such as it is. Basically, the three candidates who addressed climate change didn’t deny it – they merely said, effectively, “It’s too hard to fix, so fuck it.” Way to be Presidential, guys. Way to show that can-do American spirit. Nothing about funding alternative energy sources, no lip service to American ingenuity, no “moral equivalent of war”, certainly nothing about conservation. Just “it’s too hard and it will cost jobs”. Seriously, Christie actually said “We shouldn’t be destroying our economy in order to chase some wild, left-wing idea that somehow, us, by ourselves, are going to fix the climate.” Because it’s not like Christie lives in a coastal state that’s recently been shattered by a historic hurricane. And certainly no one in Rubio’s state has to worry about rising sea levels and the increased possibility of tropical storms. ---
**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 18, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24346 "2015-09-18T19:45:53Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Catholic GOP congressman will boycott Pope Francis’s congressional address over climate change.](http://www.salon.com/2015/09/18/catholic_gop_congressman_will_boycott_pope_franciss_congressional_address_over_climate_change/) He’s the … gentleman leading the impeachment proceedings against the chair of the EPA. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24347 "2015-09-18T19:59:53Z")
That’s the _honorable_ gentleman. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24348 "2015-09-18T20:52:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He’s the … gentleman leading the impeachment proceedings against the chair of the EPA. I didn’t know denying climate change made it all the way up to being a religion already. I’d like to start my own Church of the Drowned Coast and get some seed money! ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24349 "2015-09-18T21:15:24Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I didn’t know denying climate change made it all the way up to being a religion already. I’d like to start my own Church of the Drowned Coast and get some seed money! They’re going to post 95 tweets on Al Gore’s Twitter feed. The Batshit Reformation begins now. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24350 "2015-09-19T00:57:45Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Catholic GOP congressman will boycott Pope Francis’s congressional address over climate change.](http://www.salon.com/2015/09/18/catholic_gop_congressman_will_boycott_pope_franciss_congressional_address_over_climate_change/) And that’s where we see how successful the right-wing network of think tanks, press outlets, and the like is. Call it a \*counter-\*academia. This guy isn’t being bribed to behave this way; he’s a true believer. They cultivate anti-science beliefs, find the truest believers, run them for state legislatures, find the most diehard anti-environmentalists in that bunch, and put them in Congress. And we get this. I don’t know if we can fix this without a shooting war before massive economic collapse; and it may become a shooting war\* then\*–because, you know, massive economic collapse. ---
**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 19, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24351 "2015-09-19T01:37:22Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Seriously, Christie actually said “We shouldn’t be destroying our economy in order to chase some wild, left-wing idea that somehow, us, **by ourselves** , are going to fix the climate.” Because it’s not like Christie lives in a coastal state that’s recently been shattered by a historic hurricane. And certainly no one in Rubio’s state has to worry about rising sea levels and the increased possibility of tropical storms. (emphasis mine) How about fuck yoouuuuuu fat man, the entire world is waiting on you jerks and _we_ can’t fix this shit while the first industrial base in the world goes ladeedah and shits its own bed (also, the sky) ! Get with the fucking Kyoto already ! Fuck ! ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24352 "2015-09-19T01:41:27Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Catholic GOP congressman will boycott Pope Francis’s congressional address over climate change.](http://www.salon.com/2015/09/18/catholic_gop_congressman_will_boycott_pope_franciss_congressional_address_over_climate_change/) From the link: “If the Pope stuck to standard Christian theology, I would be the first in line,” Gosar insisted, writing that “if the Pope wants to devote his life to fighting climate change then he can do so in his personal time.” Pretty easy to mentally substitute “slavery” for “climate change,” and imagine what this guy would have been saying in the 19th-century. Oh wait, Catholics were discriminated against back then, so he wouldn’t have been in Congress. Also: “If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on. If the Pope urged the Western nations to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East, I would back him wholeheartedly. But when the Pope chooses to act and talk like a leftist politician, then he can expect to be treated like one.” Seriously, is a Catholic who says he respects the Pope only when he agrees with him, really a Catholic? I realize the Pope isn’t speaking _ex cathedra_, but it’s not like he’s just popping off about a subject he hasn’t given much thought, either. He’s obviously taking a coherent, well-researched position in consultation with his senior advisors. Isn’t it a fundamental tenet of Catholicism that a layman should defer to the Magisterium of the Church? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24353 "2015-09-19T02:22:27Z")
[Gosar’s infallibility + (America BFF God)] \> Pope’s infallibility. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24354 "2015-09-19T04:14:52Z")
In the effort to prevent abortion & promote the birth of healthy children, Congress has denied access to safe and effort birth control as well as other reproductive health care, including cancer screening. [Fuckedity fuck](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d114:H.R.3134:) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24355 "2015-09-19T04:38:18Z")
The Republicans are fools: they haven’t defunded abortion. That was done a long time ago! No Federal funds go to abortion! They go to Planned Parenthood’s other functions. These shits have just voted to cut off health care to millions, on the basis of something that doesn’t happen! These guys live in a fantasy world. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24356 "2015-09-19T04:59:54Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > The Republicans are fools: they haven’t defunded abortion. That was done a long time ago! No Federal funds go to abortion! They go to Planned Parenthood’s other functions. > > These shits have just voted to cut off health care to millions, on the basis of something that doesn’t happen! These guys live in a fantasy world. And all it took was one crappy video, misleadingly edited by someone with no scruples, just like when ACORN was defunded. I owe Trump an apology; he’s absolutely right. Our leaders are stupid. ---
**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 19, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24357 "2015-09-19T05:15:47Z")
[We’re the Republican Party and we hate education.](http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-jockey-conservative-credibility-221447740--election.html) > [@](#): > > Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush triggered boos when he defended his early support for the Common Core education standards, a policy developed by state leaders in both parties that has become a target of tea party ire. > \*\* > “I’m for higher standards,\*\* and Common Core standards are higher than the standards that exist,” Bush said **before being interrupted by boos.** Wow. Just wow. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24358 "2015-09-19T05:25:52Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > And all it took was one crappy video, misleadingly edited by someone with no scruples, just like when ACORN was defunded. > > I owe Trump an apology; he’s absolutely right. Our leaders are stupid. 1. No. Stupid != opportunistic. 2. No. [Stupid != delusional](http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/ted-cruz-isnt-idiot-hes-delusional-and-thats-far-more-dangerous). (The latter is **worse.)** ---
**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:** [September 19, 2015, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24359 "2015-09-19T06:13:19Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > We’re the Republican Party and we hate education. Didn’t you know that edumacation is just something liberals made up to make good, hard-working, regular folks feel bad about themselves? ---
**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 19, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24360 "2015-09-19T06:33:19Z")
No, the Republiopaths hate education because they want there to be people that will vote for them. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24361 "2015-09-19T06:38:53Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > We’re the Republican Party and we hate education. > > Didn’t you know that edumacation is just something liberals made up to make good, hard-working, regular folks feel bad about themselves? 'Sides, everything you need to know is right there in the Bible\*. \*My Bible, that is — the only real true Word of God, in English like the Prophets and Apostles used — not those traps of Satan that _pretend_ to be Bibles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1217) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1219)