# 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:** 123
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2441 "2011-01-11T23:23:27Z")
Republican congressmen wants politicos to have special immunity from our crappy gun laws: [Congressman Pete King to Introduce Gun Safety Bill After Arizona Shooting](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/11/congressman-pete-king-introduce-gun-safety-arizona-shooting/#ixzz1Alt60gRf) > [@](#): > > King said his bill would make it illegal to knowingly carry a gun within a thousand feet of “certain high-profile” government officials. No doubt, he’ll add a special dispensation for Teabaggers who are mad as hell and not going to take it from democrats anymore. :rolleyes: \* ## Giving pols personal-mobile-demilitarized-zones dec\*\*reases their motivation to rationalize our gun laws. That’s STUPID policy. \*or maybe that concealed carry at oppo political rallies is last summer’s fad, and he’ll ignore the hell out off it, as if it never happened. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2442 "2011-01-11T23:26:32Z")
I dunno. I’m okay with King coming out and admitting he doesn’t particularly trust people with guns. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2443 "2011-01-11T23:29:10Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Republican congressmen wants politicos to have special immunity from our crappy gun laws: > > [Congressman Pete King to Introduce Gun Safety Bill After Arizona Shooting](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/11/congressman-pete-king-introduce-gun-safety-arizona-shooting/#ixzz1Alt60gRf) > > No doubt, he’ll add a special dispensation for Teabaggers who are mad as hell and not going to take it from democrats anymore. :rolleyes: \* > > ## Giving pols personal-mobile-demilitarized-zones dec\*\*reases their motivation to rationalize our gun laws. That’s STUPID policy. > > \*or maybe that concealed carry at oppo political rallies is last summer’s fad, and he’ll ignore the hell out off it, as if it never happened. Interesting. I think this will backfire on him from the right. I’m surprised he even proposed it. Obama should publicly oppose it. Force the teabagers to have to support him over a Republican. Make their heads pop. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2444 "2011-01-12T01:59:08Z")
No, the Teabaggers won’t support Obama if he proposes this. Nor will they support King. My guess is that Congressional Republicans WILL support King’s bill, and this will drive a wedge between the Pubs and the Teabaggers. The Teabaggers want the ability to kill Congressional “tyrants”. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2445 "2011-01-12T02:20:54Z")
Nah, assuming King hasn’t already done something they can find fault with, he’ll just be declared a non-person, a RINO. Their tea may be weak but their dolchstoss is really quite tasty! ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2446 "2011-01-12T02:23:32Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Nah, assuming King hasn’t already done something they can find fault with, he’ll just be declared a non-person, a RINO. > > Their tea may be weak but their dolchstoss is really quite tasty! My theory is that other Republicans will support King to protect their own asses, and hence the disconnect with the Teabaggers. ---
**Author:** ![Batfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Batfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batfish)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2447 "2011-01-12T02:42:36Z")
Oklahoma’s new governor plagiarizes part of inaugural speech. [Here.](http://www.thelostogle.com/2011/01/11/the-one-where-governor-mary-fallin-steals-a-story-from-public-radio/#more-12696) I haven’t seen this in the media except for this blog, but I haven’t looked either. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2448 "2011-01-12T02:57:08Z")
> [@Batfish](#): > > Oklahoma’s new governor plagiarizes part of inaugural speech. > > [Here.](http://www.thelostogle.com/2011/01/11/the-one-where-governor-mary-fallin-steals-a-story-from-public-radio/#more-12696) > > I haven’t seen this in the media except for this blog, but I haven’t looked either. From what’s quoted in your link, I wouldn’t call what she did plagiarism. She didn’t use the words in the original story as her own. If the story is accurate, she wasn’t plagiarizing, she was just plain lying. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2449 "2011-01-12T11:24:56Z")
[North Carolina school district to bring back the good ole days of segregation.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011107063.html?hpid=topnews) > [@](#): > > “This is Raleigh in 2010, not Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s - my life is integrated,” said John Tedesco, a new board member. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2450 "2011-01-12T12:20:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > From what’s quoted in your link, I wouldn’t call what she did plagiarism. She didn’t use the words in the original story as her own. > > If the story is accurate, she wasn’t plagiarizing, she was just plain lying. On the other hand, it demonstrates that even Republicans find value in NPR. NPR ought to be running with this story like Usain Bolt on fire. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2451 "2011-01-12T13:25:53Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [North Carolina school district to bring back the good ole days of segregation.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011107063.html?hpid=topnews) My sister is a teacher in Raleigh. To say she is pissed would be a huge understatement. It boggles the mind that someone actually looked at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and said,“That looks pretty good.” The ironic thing is that the people really pushing for [del]resegregation[/del] neighborhood schools are transplants from the north. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2452 "2011-01-12T14:06:29Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [North Carolina school district to bring back the good ole days of segregation.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011107063.html?hpid=topnews) > > > [@](#): > > > > “This is Raleigh in 2010, not Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s - my life is integrated,” said John Tedesco, a new board member. But really, some of his best friends are… well actually they’re all white. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2453 "2011-01-12T14:15:39Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > My sister is a teacher in Raleigh. To say she is pissed would be a huge understatement. It boggles the mind that someone actually looked at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and said,“That looks pretty good.” > > The ironic thing is that the people really pushing for [del]resegregation[/del] neighborhood schools are transplants from the north. Argh. As someone who grew up in the Triangle (albeit in Durham, not Raleigh), that article made me bang my head on my desk. Wake County schools have been a shining example of a public school system that _works_, in my opinion. And now they want to tear the whole structure down. I especially “appreciated” the incoming superintendent, who seemingly held up the _DC_ public school system as something that Wake County should aspire to. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2454 "2011-01-12T15:02:10Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > But really, some of his best friends are… well actually they’re all white. Actually, a few months ago he said, as an example of his openness to diversity, that he “dated a black girl once.” I live in Wake County; I have a second grader and a rising kindergartner. I’ve been involved with some groups that have been trying to stop this insanity. It’s sickening. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2455 "2011-01-12T15:14:21Z")
[Palin accuses critics of “blood libel”](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70B3W320110112). It’s phenomenally tone-deaf to claim your Christian-majority self as a victim of blood libel when the real victim of the tragic event behind all of this self-exonerating folderol is a Jewish woman. Crazy tone-deaf. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2456 "2011-01-12T15:24:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > [Palin accuses critics of “blood libel”](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70B3W320110112). It’s phenomenally tone-deaf to claim your Christian-majority self as a victim of blood libel when the real victim of the tragic event behind all of this self-exonerating folderol is a Jewish woman. Crazy tone-deaf. The use of this particular phrase in this context by this particular woman is utterly breathtaking in its wrongness. I literally gasped when I read that quote. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2457 "2011-01-12T15:35:30Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > The use of this particular phrase in this context by this particular woman is utterly breathtaking in its wrongness. I literally gasped when I read that quote. To be fair, I doubt she even knows what blood libel actually _means_, but for Og’s sake, she ought to have SOMEBODY on her staff who reads this stuff for gaffes prior to her going out there and saying it! ---
**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:** [January 12, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2458 "2011-01-12T15:37:31Z")
I am sure she knows what it means, and feels justified in using it; her first amendment rights have been holocausted, doncha know. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2459 "2011-01-12T16:20:47Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I am sure she knows what it means, and feels justified in using it; her first amendment rights have been holocausted, doncha know. I have a hard time thinking that she thinks she’s been accused of secretly killing babies in order to use their blood to perform religious rites. More likely she’s thinking along the lines of bloody libel. If she’s trying to use the phrase as it’s traditionally meant, she’s being so hyperbolic as to have achieved weightlessness. Also from the article, she said, “Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them.” Which, I suppose, lets Grant Theft Auto off the hook. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2460 "2011-01-12T16:46:47Z")
Congressman wants to [ban guns](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47428.html) (near lawmakers). … but as well known, guns don’t kill people - people kill people so perhaps the congresscritters should ban constituents within a 1000 foot radius. Babies get an exception 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=122) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=124)