# 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:** 1334
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26662 "2016-01-11T19:45:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Fox News with some sound financial advice.](http://40.media.tumblr.com/281d8b5ce5e850a7fd1eadef9bfc6628/tumblr_o0spx4g7vZ1ql10y6o1_1280.png) What advice did they give on scratchers? ---
**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:** [January 11, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26663 "2016-01-11T19:54:38Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Fox News with some sound financial advice.](http://40.media.tumblr.com/281d8b5ce5e850a7fd1eadef9bfc6628/tumblr_o0spx4g7vZ1ql10y6o1_1280.png) I’m thinking that’s satire. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26664 "2016-01-11T19:57:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’m thinking that’s satire. [We’ve got video.](http://gawker.com/fox-news-buy-every-lottery-ticket-you-can-afford-1752237711) ---
**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:** [January 11, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26665 "2016-01-11T20:28:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [We’ve got video.](http://gawker.com/fox-news-buy-every-lottery-ticket-you-can-afford-1752237711) That’s the last place I would have thought would advocate something like that. :boggles: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26666 "2016-01-11T21:04:16Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > That’s the last place I would have thought would advocate something like that. :boggles: Lotteries have been called “a tax on people who can’t do math.” Which probably describes a fair segment of Fox’ viewer-base. Remember, this is the same network that runs ads for gold. ---
**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 11, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26667 "2016-01-11T21:34:53Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Just for giggles, would anyone like to cite a Democrat, anywhere, ever, endorsing or being endorsed by The Alliance Defending Freedom? Well, Liberty Counsel defended Kim Davis, who was a registered Democrat at the time. But am quite comfortable assuming Biron was a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26668 "2016-01-11T23:26:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [We’ve got video.](http://gawker.com/fox-news-buy-every-lottery-ticket-you-can-afford-1752237711) Ouch. Dude says if you always play the same numbers you have a better chance of winning eventually than if you use quick pics. BAD. AT. MATH. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26669 "2016-01-12T00:56:38Z")
Yawn, Abbot (Texas thingie) barfs up the same old chunks with a list of nine constitutional amendments he would like to see enacted. \* I. Prohibit Congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within one State. II. Require Congress to balance its budget. III. Prohibit administrative agencies—and the unelected bureaucrats that staff them—from creating federal law. IV. Prohibit administrative agencies—and the unelected bureaucrats that staff them—from preempting state law. V. Allow a two-thirds majority of the States to override a U.S. Supreme Court decision. VI. Require a seven-justice super-majority vote for U.S. Supreme Court decisions that invalidate a democratically enacted law. VII. Restore the balance of power between the federal and state governments by limiting the former to the powers expressly delegated to it in the Constitution. VIII. Give state officials the power to sue in federal court when federal officials overstep their bounds. IX. Allow a two-thirds majority of the States to override a federal law or regulation.\* [(92 page pdf source – see pg 4)](http://gov.texas.gov/files/press-office/Restoring_The_Rule_Of_Law_01082016.pdf) A lot of stupid there, but nothing new. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26670 "2016-01-12T01:24:50Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26671 "2016-01-12T04:04:46Z")
What’s going on in Nevada? From [here](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-11/author-of-nevada-solar-law-concerned-as-solar-companies-flee): > [@](#): > > Patricia Farley, lead author of a bill authorizing Nevada regulators to revise state solar policies, didn’t expect the new rules to prompt two major solar companies to cut jobs and leave the state. > [@](#): > > The commissioners in late December voted to increase a fixed monthly fee for solar customers by about 40 percent and reduced the amount customers get paid for excess power they sell to the grid. It also made these changes retroactive. > [@](#): > > The solar industry balked at the changes. SolarCity Corp. announced last week plans to fire 550 field and support staff in Nevada and Sunrun Inc. followed a day later with “hundreds” more job cuts. Yep, regulations are always bad, unless they tilt the playing field in favor of fossil fuels at the expense of alternative energy. Because the GOP is all about Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! Whoops! Looks like this time they are about Bull Fucking Shit. The GOP economic model sure has things humming in Nevada! ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26672 "2016-01-12T04:43:04Z")
There’s hardly any sunshine in Nevada anyways. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26673 "2016-01-12T19:09:09Z")
[Ben Carson wants Muslim guests at the State of the Union investigated](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ben-carson-muslim-guests-state-of-the-union) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26674 "2016-01-12T19:58:11Z")
Washington (CNN)Kim Davis has a secret admirer. Quote[Someone – a member of Congress, more specifically – invited the controversial county court clerk from Kentucky to the State of the Union address, but she’s not saying who.]Quote. In other words; “In a dick move by some tea party yahoo; former democrat and contemptuous hater of biblical proportions, Kim Davis, will be paraded to the State of the Union speech to act as an attention whore for her sponsor and the GOP. When asked if she will yell out, “Liar”, she remarked that her appearance is a “stick to the eye” of President Obama and is intended to detract from rational speech and a discussion of actual issues facing the United States.” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26675 "2016-01-12T20:00:07Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > When asked if she will yell out, “Liar”, How about “Judas!”? ---
**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:** [January 12, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26676 "2016-01-12T20:26:13Z")
[Virginia Republican Delegate wants to fine students for using a bathroom that doesn’t match their anatomical gender.](http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/va-gop-rep-wants-examine-students) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26677 "2016-01-12T20:38:19Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Virginia Republican Delegate wants to fine students for using a bathroom that doesn’t match their anatomical gender.](http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/va-gop-rep-wants-examine-students) You know, I’ve used bathrooms many times in my life, and I can honestly say I’ve never paused to visually inspect the junk of my fellow patrons. Clearly, there are certain parts of the population far more vigilant than I. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26678 "2016-01-12T21:00:16Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > There’s hardly any sunshine in Nevada anyways. Yep, we only get 300 days a year of it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26679 "2016-01-12T21:23:05Z")
[Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera:](http://www.salon.com/2016/01/12/foxs_geraldo_rivera_what_is_clear_is_that_the_nation_was_not_ready_for_a_black_president/) “What is clear is that the nation was not ready for a black president.” ---
**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, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26680 "2016-01-12T21:36:06Z")
Read that piece more carefully. It’s not stupid at all. Or at least, it’s not Republican. It’s the antithesis of what Republicans have been claiming for seven years. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26681 "2016-01-12T21:37:07Z")
I read it carefully. This is the stupid part: > [@](#): > > Rivera finally relented and charged that Obama had failed to confront race relations head-on as the first African-American president. “If I was this president,” the Fox News personality offered, “I would have said ‘I’m going to deal with this race. I’m going to deal with the legacy of the Civil War. The Civil War is over. The North/South divide — I would have made that the central focus of my president were I him.” > > “He failed utterly,” Rivera concluded, and by “benign neglect made it worse.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1333) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1335)