# 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:** 1359
**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 5, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27162 "2016-02-05T04:26:39Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: > > Is that even LEGAL? Surely (IANAL). A governor is CinC of the states national guard unless the President calls them up, so he’s even got trained troops. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27163 "2016-02-05T04:36:43Z")
According to the article, no, it is not legal, because the federal government determines immigration rules and laws, not the states. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27164 "2016-02-05T06:06:46Z")
[Republican State Rep resigns after lying about his military background.](http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/03/lawmaker-resigns-over-military-service-exaggerations.html) But hey, those R’s really respect the military. So much that they enjoy pretending to be them. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27165 "2016-02-05T12:53:12Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > [Alabama senator calls teacher pay raises unbiblical, defends raise for legislators](http://blog.al.com/live/2012/02/would_raising_teacher_pay_go_a.html) > [@](#): > > McGill supports the 62 percent pay increase the legislature gave itself in 2007 because means lawmakers are now less susceptible to taking bribes, the paper reported. > > Regarding teacher pay, McGill said: “It’s a Biblical principle. If you double a teacher’s pay scale, you’ll attract people who aren’t called to teach. To go in and raise someone’s child for eight hours a day, or many people’s children for eight hours a day, requires a calling. It better be a calling in your life. I know I wouldn’t want to do it, OK?” I’m confused. Does that mean: 1.) Being a teacher is a “calling”, but being a legislator isn’t (so you can raise legislator’s pay without offending God, or something) or 2.) There’s some statement in the Bible prohibiting raising teacher’s pay or 3.) There’s something in the Bible that allows you to raise legislator’s pay or 4.) If you raise the pay for legislators you won’t attract people who aren’t called to legislate, for some reason. ---
**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 5, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27166 "2016-02-05T13:39:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 4.) If you raise the pay for legislators you won’t attract people who aren’t called to legislate, for some reason. Exactly. You’ll just get a bunhc of incompetents in it for the money. As has just been proven by McGill. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27167 "2016-02-05T13:58:49Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > Now we can get lead into our bodies even faster, yay! Heck, you can speed that up just by being black and asking a police officer for directions. ---
**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 5, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27168 "2016-02-05T15:08:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 4.) If you raise the pay for legislators you won’t attract people who aren’t called to legislate, for some reason. > [@Gyrate](#): > > Exactly. You’ll just get a bunhc of incompetents in it for the money. As has just been proven by McGill. Maybe we ought to try some kind of monastic arrangement where they have to take a vow of poverty with their basic needs provided in a legislators’ dormitory. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27169 "2016-02-05T15:15:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Heck, you can speed that up just by being black and asking a police officer for directions. Actually, no, not really. Plumbic insertion therapy is an ineffective means of achieving the desired end. Lead dissolved and dispersed through water is absorbed far more readily than a pellet of lead inserted directly, and oftimes the pellet is removed. And frequently the process of insertion can lead to a complete shutdown of all systems, what your doctor calls being “dead”, which is irreversible. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27170 "2016-02-06T00:35:50Z")
Republican state legislator in WA introduces a bill to block further gun control laws in the state… and in four pages, he proceeds to [provide made-up quotes attributed to Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton, attribute a Patrick Henry quote to Thomas Paine, and then Godwinize himself.](http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/politics-government/article58711873.html) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27171 "2016-02-06T01:24:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Republican state legislator in WA introduces a bill to block further gun control laws in the state… and in four pages, he proceeds to [provide made-up quotes attributed to Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton, attribute a Patrick Henry quote to Thomas Paine, and then Godwinize himself.](http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/politics-government/article58711873.html) I’ll bet his attitude is “what do facts matter as long as I get my way?” ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27172 "2016-02-06T02:12:13Z")
Washington [senate bill 6548](http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/02/05/republicans-demand-girls-flash-their-vaginas-to-get-into-womens-toilets/?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=ETFB&utm_campaign=portal&utm_content=inf_11_60_2&tse_id=INF_79446291fc2f425c8e33a7b2a435efd3)passes through committee mandating people use bathrooms (among other places) that fit the correct genitals only. This law opens the way for bathroom genital checkers because, how else are you going to make sure? Not surprisingly, this bill was supported by the same idiot above who fabricated his military records and has now resigned. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27173 "2016-02-06T03:16:57Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I don’t see why everybody’s piling on Trump, and not talking about Cruz. If he pulls shit like that to win Iowa, what will he do if he gets the nomination? What would he do as President? Yeah, I’m with Trump on this one. Good for him for calling out Cruz. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27174 "2016-02-07T01:07:28Z")
\*\*Fun in the Republican controlled Wisconsin legislature. \*\* None of the promised laser focus on jobs but they’ve got time to try to [defund Planned Parenthood](http://www.jsonline.com/business/bills-targeting-planned-parenthood-may-end-up-doing-nothing-b99662607z1-367432851.html)(Federal program, no state authority) and [they want to pass a law aimed at a specific potential Democratic candidate for State Senate.](http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-fitzgerald-wants-to-bar-county-executives-from-legislature/article_63fe688e-c278-5a4e-af54-6c81aa27d0fa.html) > [@](#): > > The bill would not ban lawmakers from also keeping other types of local government positions. Rep. Todd Novak, R-Dodgeville, also works as mayor of the city, for example. [Oh, and who needs local control of water?](http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/environment/bill-to-ease-sales-of-water-supplies-into-private-hands/article_d811c1cb-1ed9-5868-b707-02400d8a1940.html) > [@](#): > > The legislation was introduced at the request of a private water and sewer corporation based in Pennsylvania that may wish to acquire water utilities here, said Rep. Tyler August, R-Lake Geneva, the proposal’s lead author. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27175 "2016-02-07T01:17:54Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > Washington [senate bill 6548](http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/02/05/republicans-demand-girls-flash-their-vaginas-to-get-into-womens-toilets/?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=ETFB&utm_campaign=portal&utm_content=inf_11_60_2&tse_id=INF_79446291fc2f425c8e33a7b2a435efd3)passes through committee mandating people use bathrooms (among other places) that fit the correct genitals only. This law opens the way for bathroom genital checkers because, how else are you going to make sure? > > Not surprisingly, this bill was supported by the same idiot above who fabricated his military records and has now resigned. We’ve got an unusual situation in WA right now - Democrats technically outnumber Republicans in the Senate, but a handful of rural Democrats decided to caucus with the GOP to create a Republican majority after the last election. Which gives them the majority in these committees, and free reign to advance bills that won’t pass the full Senate anyway, will never get a hearing in the Democratic-majority House, would be vetoed by the Democratic governor, and which the general population opposes in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27176 "2016-02-07T01:57:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > We’ve got an unusual situation in WA right now - Democrats technically outnumber Republicans in the Senate, but a handful of rural Democrats decided to caucus with the GOP to create a Republican majority after the last election New York has had similar stuff going on over the last five years or so, only in this case it is a handful of urban Democrats who have decided to work with the Republicans. Funky stuff. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27177 "2016-02-07T03:40:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Which gives them the majority in these committees, and free reign to advance bills that won’t pass the full Senate anyway, will never get a hearing in the Democratic-majority House, would be vetoed by the Democratic governor, and which the general population opposes in the first place. Free REIN. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27178 "2016-02-07T03:59:03Z")
Free RAIN! ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27179 "2016-02-07T04:21:35Z")
…purple reign? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27180 "2016-02-07T05:01:59Z")
Rein in hell? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27181 "2016-02-07T06:41:56Z")
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