# 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:** 137
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2721 "2011-04-01T06:02:24Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a perennial favorite, believes that… Wow, that’s so wacko I’d call it too silly even for the Onion … ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2722 "2011-04-01T08:15:54Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a perennial favorite, believes that: > [Cite](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/gohmert-libya-attacks-are-false-flag-for-obama-to-call-up-private-army-created-by-health-care-law.php?ref=fpblg). > > I’ll bet the uniforms look cool. :rolleyes: I’ve not visited this thread for a while (Republicans stupid? Isn’t that like Dog bites man?) but dropped by just now and saw this. If a bartender heard this “idea” he’d make sure the guy wasn’t going to be driving a car. But this guy is a U.S. Congressman. :smack: I’d love to join in the laughter, but instead am profoundly saddened. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2011, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2723 "2011-04-01T10:19:02Z")
To be honest, if Obama was clever enough to get Congress to pass a bill that would give him his own private army, I’d be mightily impressed. It’d make a change from his current tendency to avoid confrontation. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2724 "2011-04-01T13:15:52Z")
Funny how he can’t get a single-payer option to fly, but a private army? No problem! ---
**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:** [April 1, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2725 "2011-04-01T13:16:42Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > I’ll bet the uniforms look cool. :rolleyes: That’s probably the least stupid Louie Gohmert quote I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2726 "2011-04-01T13:21:04Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a perennial favorite, believes that: > > [Cite](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/gohmert-libya-attacks-are-false-flag-for-obama-to-call-up-private-army-created-by-health-care-law.php?ref=fpblg). > > I’ll bet the uniforms look cool. :rolleyes: A top White House source in my head has informed me that the primary reason we are getting involved in Lybia is to get access to Gaddafi’s tailor. So is Obama’s private army made up solely of hot chicks, too? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2727 "2011-04-01T13:24:04Z")
Libya, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2728 "2011-04-01T13:55:53Z")
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor apparently never saw the ‘I’m Just A Bill’ Schoolhouse Rock thing > **[O'DONNELL: Eric Cantor Is "An Unpardonable Embarrassment"](https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-cantor-odonnell-video-2011-3)** Nice shot at Michele Bachmann in there, too. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2729 "2011-04-01T14:40:57Z")
[Mike Huckabee wants all Americans to be indoctrinated – at GUNPOINT](http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/5478-mike-huckabee-wants-americans-to-be-indoctrinated-at-gunpoint), to the lunatic, revisionist history of the debunked and deranged David Barton. I kid you not. Indoctrinated. At gunpoint. Please share this with everyone you know, and not just fellow Democrats. This crazy fool is currently at the top of the heap of Republicans for the nomination. EVERYONE needs to be afraid of this joker and not let him anywhere near the White House unless he’s invited for dinner. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2730 "2011-04-01T14:46:23Z")
Yeah, Huckabee’s the one who scares me a little. He’s just as lunatic as the rest of them, but he has this chuckling uncle kind of facade that’s a little charming, even for someone as left as me. You really start to think “He’s not that bad, is he?” Until he pulls something like this and you realize that he’s in the exact same mold as the rest of the lunatics in the GOP, if not more so. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2731 "2011-04-01T14:51:12Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > [Mike Huckabee wants all Americans to be indoctrinated – at GUNPOINT](http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/5478-mike-huckabee-wants-americans-to-be-indoctrinated-at-gunpoint), to the lunatic, revisionist history of the debunked and deranged David Barton. Ha - you fell for an April Fool’s joke! PWNED! Right? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2732 "2011-04-01T15:26:20Z")
The “gunpoint” thing was clearly a joke…well, a “joke”…but the endorsement of Barton is still worrying. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2733 "2011-04-01T16:04:23Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a perennial favorite, believes that: > > [Cite](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/gohmert-libya-attacks-are-false-flag-for-obama-to-call-up-private-army-created-by-health-care-law.php?ref=fpblg). > > I’ll bet the uniforms look cool. :rolleyes: Honestly, can you imagine a guy with a name like Louie Gohmert not being an idiot? The name sounds like a bad cliche. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2734 "2011-04-01T16:13:51Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The “gunpoint” thing was clearly a joke…well, a “joke”…but the endorsement of Barton is still worrying. He clearly didn’t mean he literally wanted everyone in America held at gunpoint, but he _sincerely_ meant that he wishes everyone in America would be forced (he even emphasized ‘forced’ twice) to be indoctrinated with that loon’s revisionist history. And a man who sincerely believes this would be a better nation if everyone believed the way he does, particularly when that belief is _wrong_ is frightening and **dangerous** to have anywhere near the White House with anything more than a dinner invitation. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2735 "2011-04-01T19:45:58Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > [Mike Huckabee wants all Americans to be indoctrinated – at GUNPOINT](http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/5478-mike-huckabee-wants-americans-to-be-indoctrinated-at-gunpoint), to the lunatic, revisionist history of the debunked and deranged David Barton… > > Please share this with everyone you know, and not just fellow Democrats. This crazy fool is currently at the top of the heap of Republicans for the nomination. EVERYONE needs to be afraid of this joker and not let him anywhere near the White House unless he’s invited for dinner. Thank you for the amazing link, **Shayna**. Nice website; while there I clicked on Robert Reich’s blog. In this thread though, we’re all “preaching to the converted.” I wish some of you would post some of these things in the GD forum. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2736 "2011-04-01T19:50:30Z")
Sometimes I just can’t figure out if it’s an April Fool thing or not. What do you think? **Montana Rep. Alan Hale (R, of course) Says DUI Laws Are ‘Destroying a Way of Life’** A Montana politician who runs a bar in his district says drunken driving regulations hurt small businesses – namely bars and taverns. [Cite](http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/31/montana-rep-alan-hale-says-dui-laws-are-destroying-a-way-of-li/). If he’s trying to get Montana to be another Texas, maybe this guy can help stump for his cause: > [@](#): > > Man gets 99 years in prison for 16th DWI [Cite](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42275429/ns/local_news-houston_tx/). My favorite part? > [@](#): > > Corley was sentenced as a habitual offender Wednesday to 99 years in prison. Prosecutors estimate Corley could be up for parole **in 10 to 15 years** depending on his behavior. Bolding mine. Hey, it’s good to be drunk in Texas! ---
**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:** [April 1, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2737 "2011-04-01T19:52:32Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Hey, it’s good to be drunk in Texas! And sometimes necessary… ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2738 "2011-04-02T00:50:55Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Thank you for the amazing link, **Shayna**. Nice website; while there I clicked on Robert Reich’s blog. > > In this thread though, we’re all “preaching to the converted.” I wish some of you would post some of these things in the GD forum. You’re welcome. I don’t personally feel like debating it, but by all means, feel free to post a thread about it in GD if you’d like. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2739 "2011-04-02T04:21:59Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > House Majority Leader Eric Cantor apparently never saw the ‘I’m Just A Bill’ Schoolhouse Rock thing > [O'DONNELL: Eric Cantor Is "an Unpardonable Embarrassment" - Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-cantor-odonnell-video-2011-3) > > Nice shot at Michele Bachmann in there, too. I just wish Lawrence O’Donnell would loosen up a little, you know? Stop holding back. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/2740 "2011-04-02T15:00:37Z")
So now Republicans are trying to blame Democrats for Donald Trump. [ > [@](#): > > Donald Trump has joined the “birthers,” the odd movement that questions President Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate. That’s a good way for the celebrity billionaire to appear as though he’s making a serious run for the Republican presidential nomination, which he says he is considering. It also makes him sound like a secret agent for the Democrats. > > That oddly credible possibility has been raised by frustrated conservatives like radio talk-show host John Gibson, who sounded furious earlier this week at the way birthers make Republicans look like the crazy party. ]([http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-03-30/news/ct-oped-0330-page-20110330\_1\_birther-movement-donald-trump-secret-agent](http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-03-30/news/ct-oped-0330-page-20110330_1_birther-movement-donald-trump-secret-agent)) [ > [@Robert Schlesinger](#): > > I’m becoming concerned that a certain political figure in the 2012 presidential field has a sinister, hidden agenda. We all like to laugh and be dismissive–but it’s increasingly hard to ignore the questions about his birth certificate. One has to ask: Is Donald Trump, seemingly a “birther” running for the GOP presidential nod, really an Obama sleeper agent? ]([http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2011/03/29/is-birther-donald-trump--a-democratic-sleeper-agent](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2011/03/29/is-birther-donald-trump--a-democratic-sleeper-agent)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=136) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=138)