# 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:** 124
**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, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2461 "2011-01-12T16:55:10Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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! Honestly, I’m at the point where I’m convinced she’s the real-life version of an internet sock-puppet being used by a troll. Somebody GAVE her that phrase to use, knowing that she would have no idea what the hell it meant but that it sounded good, and that person KNEW what would happen. She’s a massive joke that someone’s been playing on the American people for two years. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2462 "2011-01-12T17:09:12Z")
Frankly, I doubt many Americans know the derivation of the phrase “blood libel”. About as many who know what the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were. Most likely, they roughly compare it with “blood oath”, to mean a very, very serious form of same. ---
**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, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2463 "2011-01-12T17:21:05Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Frankly, I doubt many Americans know the derivation of the phrase “blood libel”. About as many who know what the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were. Most likely, they roughly compare it with “blood oath”, to mean a very, very serious form of same. The phrase “blood libel” is so awkward that the likelihood of someone using it in a random conversation WITHOUT knowing about the phrase seems slim to me. The phrase “blood oath” is significantly more commonly used and understood. While I understand that one should never attribute to malice what can easily be explained by stupidity, that phrase is just too odd of a use for me to dismiss it as the overheated rhetoric of an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2464 "2011-01-12T17:32:37Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > The phrase “blood libel” is so awkward that the likelihood of someone using it in a random conversation WITHOUT knowing about the phrase seems slim to me. I looked it up. I didn’t know Palin was jewish. Or is she trying to imply that us lefties wanna cook _her_ brains up into flatbread? That sounds like it’d be pretty tasteless stuff. Maybe with a real _garlicky_ hummus… It’s all metaphor, people. Words are without meaning!!! ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2465 "2011-01-12T22:09:46Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > She’s a massive joke that someone’s been playing on the American people for two years. It is getting to the point that she appears to be some sort of performance artist. That at some point, she’s going to pull a rubber face mask off and reveal that she’s one of [The Yes Men](http://theyesmen.org/). ---
**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:** [January 13, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2466 "2011-01-13T18:02:10Z")
Today’s candidate, Rerpresentative [Louis Gohmert](http://gawker.com/5732069/dumbest-congress-member-wants-guns-on-the-house-floor): > [@](#): > > Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert says his office is drafting a measure to allow members of Congress to carry guns in the District of Columbia, including in the Capitol and on the House floor. ---
**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 13, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2467 "2011-01-13T18:07:53Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Today’s candidate, Rerpresentative [Louis Gohmert](http://gawker.com/5732069/dumbest-congress-member-wants-guns-on-the-house-floor): He is the gift of stupid that keeps on giving. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2468 "2011-01-13T18:23:44Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Today’s candidate, Rerpresentative [Louis Gohmert](http://gawker.com/5732069/dumbest-congress-member-wants-guns-on-the-house-floor): This is such a super idea. I can’t wait for YOU LIE! Blam blam blam! ---
**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 13, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2469 "2011-01-13T18:26:01Z")
Perhaps those voting against a measure could signal their disapproval by firing shots into the air. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2470 "2011-01-13T18:55:57Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Today’s candidate, Rerpresentative [Louis Gohmert](http://gawker.com/5732069/dumbest-congress-member-wants-guns-on-the-house-floor): Not anything all that new, according to [this](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/opinion/12freeman.html), the House and Senate floors used to be very violent places. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2471 "2011-01-13T19:11:39Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This is such a super idea. I can’t wait for > > YOU LIE! > Blam blam blam! [Joe Wilson’s ‘You Lie’ Slogan Offered On Commemorative Assault Rifles](http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/12/wilson-you-lie-rifle/) ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2472 "2011-01-13T19:14:55Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Not anything all that new, according to [this](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/opinion/12freeman.html), the House and Senate floors used to be very violent places. And so Rep. Gohmert thinks we should go back to that era? For what purpose? Does he really think that time was better because everyone could wear a firearm? ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2473 "2011-01-13T19:20:05Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > Does he really think that time was better because everyone could wear a firearm? Gohmert is repeatable been on the record for being really fucking stupid it wouldn’t surprise me. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2474 "2011-01-13T19:29:44Z")
**Gohmert Says FBI ‘Stonewalled’ On Shooter Profile To Avoid ‘Embarrassing’ Obama’s Constituents** From ThinkProgress, [http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/13/gohmert-fbi-critic/](http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/13/gohmert-fbi-critic/) ---
**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 13, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2475 "2011-01-13T19:52:36Z")
Oh, yeah. Gohmert is on record (earlier in this very thread) as being greatly worried about possible terrorist anchor fetuses, which ought to tell you just how much of the stupid he partakes of… ---
**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 13, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2476 "2011-01-13T21:49:38Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > … From ThinkProgress, [http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/13/gohmert-fbi-critic/](http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/13/gohmert-fbi-critic/) That (s)cite was a little gold mine, > [@](#): > > \*\*Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot > \*\* > … Tuscon Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries called Giffords’ previous concerns about violent rhetoric “political gamesmenship,” claiming that if Giffords was so concerned, then she is to blame for Saturday’s shootings because she “had no security whatsoever”: > > _“It’s political gamesmanship. The real case is that she [Giffords] had no security whatsoever at this event. So if she lived under a constant fear of being targeted, if she lived under this constant fear of this rhetoric and hatred that was seething, why would she attend an event in full view of the public with no security whatsoever?”_ … > > … Incidentally, the same Tea Party rhetoric Humphries is so quick to defend is keeping him from attending the memorial service with President Obama tonight. Humphries told TPM that he received an anonymous phone call saying, “we’re going to stand against you and we’re going to use our First _and_ Second Amendment rights to stop you” will keep him “out of public view for a while.”[RIGHT][CITE](http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/12/tucson-tea-party-blames-gifford/)[/RIGHT] CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2477 "2011-01-13T22:03:34Z")
> [@](#): > > …"The real case is that she [Giffords] had no security whatsoever at this event. So if she lived under a constant fear of being targeted, if she lived under this constant fear of this rhetoric and hatred that was seething, why would she attend an event in full view of the public with no security whatsoever?” … Courage? ---
**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 14, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2478 "2011-01-14T15:20:39Z")
Don’t be silly. She’s a Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2479 "2011-01-15T02:04:37Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Don’t be silly. She’s a Democrat. Yeah, I’m pretty sure courage is measured strictly by one’s willingness to send US troops into foreign wars. Hence those “footprint of the American chicken” bumperstickers. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2480 "2011-01-15T03:10:12Z")
Of course! I get it! The sound of one hand clapping is _whoooooosh_! I am one _zen_ sumbitch! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=123) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=125)