# 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:** 127
**Author:** ![AshenLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@AshenLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AshenLady)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2521 "2011-02-03T16:02:10Z")
Gov. Christie of NJ is planning to dump millions of dollars down the tube in Atlantic City. The place has always been a dump, even with all the tax revenue that has been raised. After Christie refused to pay for a tunnel between NJ and NYC, it seems he must have cronies in AC who curried his favor during his campaign. I guess it’s payback time. I live in the southern part of NJ, so it’s to my benefit to spend money in AC, but with all the cuts to towns, schools, etc., he shouldn’t be bankrolling AC either, truly. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2522 "2011-02-03T16:11:20Z")
Yes, Missouri legislatures are more in favor of referendums in theory than in fact. They are also [hamstringing a 2008 law requiring renewable energy](http://blog.climateandenergy.org/2011/02/03/missouri-general-assembly-kills-two-rules-on-renewable-energy-sources/). Joe ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2523 "2011-02-03T16:13:15Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > So, does anyone remember the Missouri referendum to install regulation of dog breeders to prevent cruelty and abuse of the animals? [There are at least four bills in the Missouri House at the moment that would either repeal that referendum or exempt pretty much everyone who would be affected by it.](http://house.mo.gov/BillsAssignedToCommittee.aspx?com=453&year=2011&code=R) > > Republicans: They Really DO Want To Kick Puppies! You should get some sort of award for that line. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2524 "2011-02-03T16:20:50Z")
> [@bup](#): > > You should get some sort of award for that line. Can’t claim credit…it’s a not-very-paraphrased paraphrase from [Dennis G.'s diary on this over at Balloon Juice](http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/02/02/so-they-really-do-want-to-kick-puppies/#comments). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2525 "2011-02-03T17:44:09Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Georgia Republican sponsors bill to [do away with driver’s licenses](http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/26675368/detail.html): nm ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2526 "2011-02-04T16:11:55Z")
Bleargh…this is almost worthy of its own Pit thread: more O’Keefe-style “sting” videos, this time [targeting Planned Parenthood](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/03/undercover-sex-work-videos-fuel-congressional-campaign-planned-parenthood/?test=latestnews). Yes, more (likely highly) edited video utilizing a “pimp and prostitute” ploy. I guess copycatting that is better than innovating, say, a [sex boat ploy](http://gawker.com/5653907/james-okeefes-sex-dungeon-boat-stunt-too-gross-for-andrew-breitbart). Will it ever get old? That first link is a FoxNews story; I didn’t post the mostly sad, mostly dismissive [salon.com mention](http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/01/planned_parenthood_sting) I came across a couple days earlier because I wasn’t sure the story’d get any legs. Wishful thinking on my part, I guess… ---
**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:** [February 4, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2527 "2011-02-04T16:18:46Z")
> [@Digital\_Stimulus](#): > > Bleargh…this is almost worthy of its own Pit thread: more O’Keefe-style “sting” videos, this time [targeting Planned Parenthood](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/03/undercover-sex-work-videos-fuel-congressional-campaign-planned-parenthood/?test=latestnews). Yes, more (likely highly) edited video utilizing a “pimp and prostitute” ploy. I guess copycatting that is better than innovating, say, a [sex boat ploy](http://gawker.com/5653907/james-okeefes-sex-dungeon-boat-stunt-too-gross-for-andrew-breitbart). Will it ever get old? > e I wasn’t sure the story’d get any legs. Wishful thinking on my part, I guess… > [@](#): > > “The recent release of an undercover video exposing duplicity and potential criminality by an employee of Planned Parenthood is an outrage,” Pence said. “The time to deny any and all funding to Planned Parenthood is now.” So one employee clearly and knowingly acting against the rules of their own organisation is justification for defunding the whole national organisation? By that criteria we ought to abolish Congress. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2528 "2011-02-04T17:42:29Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > So one employee clearly and knowingly acting against the rules of their own organisation is justification for defunding the whole national organisation? By that criteria we ought to abolish Congress. But not just any organization. Liberal organizations that, you know, provide services that Americans actually need versus stuff like this: > [@](#): > > “The military paid a total of $285 billion to more than 100 contractors between 2007 and '09, even though those same companies were defrauding taxpayers in the same period, according to a new Defense Department report. What’s perhaps most shocking is that billions of dollars went to contractors who had been either suspended or debarred for misusing taxpayer funds.” [Cite](http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/03-3). Where’s the appropriate outrage? ---
**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:** [February 4, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2529 "2011-02-04T17:47:19Z")
Props to Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) for bucking the party line to agree that DoD waste is an issue, though. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2530 "2011-02-04T18:56:45Z")
> [@Digital\_Stimulus](#): > > Bleargh…this is almost worthy of its own Pit thread: more O’Keefe-style “sting” videos, this time [targeting Planned Parenthood](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/03/undercover-sex-work-videos-fuel-congressional-campaign-planned-parenthood/?test=latestnews). Yes, more (likely highly) edited video utilizing a “pimp and prostitute” ploy. I guess copycatting that is better than innovating, say, a [sex boat ploy](http://gawker.com/5653907/james-okeefes-sex-dungeon-boat-stunt-too-gross-for-andrew-breitbart). Will it ever get old? > > That first link is a FoxNews story; I didn’t post the mostly sad, mostly dismissive [salon.com mention](http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/01/planned_parenthood_sting) I came across a couple days earlier because I wasn’t sure the story’d get any legs. Wishful thinking on my part, I guess… Along the lines of wishful thinking, I have a dream that one of these organizations will call the police and hold these guys until they can be investigated on charges of child prostitution. That would hopefully stop them from shopping around until they find someone who will give them the footage they want. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2531 "2011-02-04T20:07:28Z")
Arizona, yet again: state legislators want to be able to [override federal laws](http://www.kpho.com/news/26721011/detail.html). Never mind SCotUS, buncha punters that _they_ are. Stupid? Yes. Unlikely to pass? Oh, hell yes. But it should be noted that [Russel Pearce](http://www.azleg.gov/MembersPage.asp?Member_ID=18&legislature=50&Session=1R), one of the bill’s sponsors, is the AZ Senate President. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Agnostic\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Agnostic\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agnostic_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2532 "2011-02-06T00:49:05Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Georgia Republican sponsors bill to [do away with driver’s licenses](http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/26675368/detail.html): And that appears to be one of this fuckhead’s better ideas - not good, just better than this piece of steaming shit. [GA State Rep:There’s no such thing as a rape victim](http://www.dlcc.org/GA_Rep_Says_No_Such_Thing_as_Rape_Victims) This is the proposed bill ([PDF](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/108144.pdf)). Franklin wants to change the language in various laws so the victims of rape, stalking and domestic violence are called ‘accusers’ instead. Apparently you cannot be a victim of these crimes unless someone is actually convicted of perpetrating it. It appears that victims of robbery, fraud and other crimes are still victims, not mere ‘accusers’. If any change should be made to that code, it should be to drop the requirement for a land-line telephone for stalking victims to receive notifications. This is the 21st century - many people no longer have such, or is their last line of communication. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2533 "2011-02-06T14:06:57Z")
[New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/new-gop-law-would-allow-hospitals-to-let-women-die-instead-of-having-an-abortion.php?ref=fpb) > [@](#): > > The controversy over “forcible rape” may be over, but now there’s a new Republican-sponsored abortion bill in the House that pro-choice folks say may be worse: this time around, the new language would allow hospitals to let a pregnant woman die rather than perform the abortion that would save her life. I was going to make a comment about how Republicans ran on a campaign of jobs. Jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs, it’s the economy stupid. And here there are, day after day, putting up legislation that really has nothing to do with jobs or the economy and why the fuck aren’t they more focused on things the vast majority of Americans actually care about in their day to day lives? But I realized that was short sighted - since legislators can perfectly well debate dozens of pieces of legislation and any one doesn’t indicate what they’re working on for the other 11. Besides, it was unfairly painting a whole group with an awfully large brush. So instead I’ll ask this: what the fuck is wrong with Republicans where they hate women so much they want them to die horrible painful deaths so they can laugh at the whore women who done brought herself low by gettin herself put in a sinful way? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with them? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2534 "2011-02-06T15:42:19Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > So instead I’ll ask this: what the fuck is wrong with Republicans where they hate women so much they want them to die horrible painful deaths so they can laugh at the whore women who done brought herself low by gettin herself put in a sinful way? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with them? They wouldn’t be where they are if they weren’t enabled by ignorant, bigoted voters. We have met the misogynists, and they are us. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2535 "2011-02-06T15:52:00Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Republicans: They Really DO Want To Kick Puppies! Now, now, now… some of them have advanced to the point of [using tools](http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/2/5/941441/-The-Real-ReaganA-Personal-Story) to get the job done. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2536 "2011-02-06T16:44:02Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I was going to make a comment about how Republicans ran on a campaign of jobs. Jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs, it’s the economy stupid. And here there are, day after day, putting up legislation that really has nothing to do with jobs or the economy and why the fuck aren’t they more focused on things the vast majority of Americans actually care about in their day to day lives? Well, if we consider what Republicans have done to the budget when they’ve been in power, ignoring it to focus on social issues is the most fiscally responsible they’ve been in decades. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2537 "2011-02-06T18:00:47Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > [New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/new-gop-law-would-allow-hospitals-to-let-women-die-instead-of-having-an-abortion.php?ref=fpb) > > I was going to make a comment about how Republicans ran on a campaign of jobs. Jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs, it’s the economy stupid. And here there are, day after day, putting up legislation that really has nothing to do with jobs or the economy and why the fuck aren’t they more focused on things the vast majority of Americans actually care about in their day to day lives? > > But I realized that was short sighted - since legislators can perfectly well debate dozens of pieces of legislation and any one doesn’t indicate what they’re working on for the other 11. Besides, it was unfairly painting a whole group with an awfully large brush. > > So instead I’ll ask this: what the fuck is wrong with Republicans where they hate women so much they want them to die horrible painful deaths so they can laugh at the whore women who done brought herself low by gettin herself put in a sinful way? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with them? I bet not a one of 'em has a clue what an ectopic pregnancy is. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2538 "2011-02-06T18:48:11Z")
Ectoplasm? But ghosts are already dead! ---
**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:** [February 7, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2539 "2011-02-07T00:59:19Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Ectoplasm? But ghosts are already dead! Just like a liberal, looking for any excuse to abort little Casper! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2540 "2011-02-08T19:13:52Z")
This isn’t necessarily a stupid Republican idea, but I can’t think of any better place to let the masses know: Fear not, if a pressing problem needs to be addressed anytime in the near future, dedicated public servant [Bristol Palin](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/08/bristol-palin-to-run-for-office/#more-146113) will step up to the plate. Palin/Palin 2012. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=126) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=128)