# 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:** 1416
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28302 "2016-04-01T23:16:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Why does the Governor have to swear in legislators? > > Today’s list: > > 1-[Glenn Beck, Cruz supporter, says that Ted Cruz will get his agenda through Congress by having his Vice President (possibly Carly Fiorina), take control of the Senate](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-envisions-president-ted-cruzs-white-house-literally-running-senate-well). > [@Voyager](#): > > And if they give her any trouble she will just lay them off. > [@](#): > > Needless to say, if President Obama and Vice President Biden were to try something like this, Beck would have a total aneurysm and immediately begin screaming for impeachment. They should try it. Call it “The Cruz Rule”. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28303 "2016-04-01T23:33:19Z")
Wasn’t it Palin who said in 2008 that the VP gets in there and runs the Senate, dontcha know? I seem to remember the Brickerbot defending her. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28304 "2016-04-01T23:35:37Z")
Oregon Senate candidate: “[Vietnamese refugees came to Oregon, started fires in the middle of their houses, and stole cats and dogs to eat.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/oregon-republican-reignites-old-meme-about-vietnamese-refugees-eating-cats-and-dogs/)” ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28305 "2016-04-02T02:18:22Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > Mississippi is on a fucking roll: [Mississippi lawmakers approve the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act.”](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/01/472669895/heres-why-mississippis-religious-freedom-bill-is-so-controversial) Bet you can’t guess what it does. > > > [@](#): > > > > Here’s Section 2, in its entirety: > > > > The sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions protected by this act are the belief or conviction that: > > (a) Marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman; > > (b) Sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage; and > > (c) Male (man) or female (woman) refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth. > > > > The bill then defines all the actions that a Mississippi resident could take — with one of those moral convictions as a reason — with the guarantee that the state government won’t punish him or retaliate against him. > > Stay classy, Mississippi. [Jim Wright points out](https://www.facebook.com/Stonekettle/posts/990804407621629) that point (b) means you can legally discriminate against anyone who has any sexual relationship outside of marriage. So your boss could fire you if you’ve never been married and you’re not a virgin. (I’m not sure how’d they determine that last, though. Maybe just if you’re living with someone?) ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28306 "2016-04-02T04:33:48Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > [Jim Wright points out](https://www.facebook.com/Stonekettle/posts/990804407621629) that point (b) means you can legally discriminate against anyone who has any sexual relationship outside of marriage. So your boss could fire you if you’ve never been married and you’re not a virgin. (I’m not sure how’d they determine that last, though. Maybe just if you’re living with someone?) That is [not correct (pdf)](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/pdf/HB/1500-1599/HB1523PS.pdf). The bill includes a rather specific list of what section 2 applies to. My cursory reading of the text does not reveal anything that would give your random boss the right to fire you for fucking an unapproved person. On the other hand, it does look like it gives a jesusy CPS case worker the right to deny gay adoption if it squicks them out. And while a church may have the right to refuse a straight-like transgender marriage (assuming they go to the effort to ferret out that information), it does not _require_ the church to refuse, so an icky marriage can be performed in a church if that church/pastor is willing to do so. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28307 "2016-04-02T06:20:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > That is [not correct (pdf)](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/pdf/HB/1500-1599/HB1523PS.pdf). The bill includes a rather specific list of what section 2 applies to. My cursory reading of the text does not reveal anything that would give your random boss the right to fire you for fucking an unapproved person. As I understand it, Republicans would like to give bosses the right to fire someone for any reason or no reason at all. ---
**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, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28308 "2016-04-02T06:33:37Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > As I understand it, Republicans would like to give bosses the right to fire someone for any reason or no reason at all. You understand it correctly. AFAIK the so-called Employee Rights Act (H.R.3485 & S.1712) is making it’s odious way thru committees now, for instance and there’s always some othera version of the National Right To Work Law hanging around (waiting for people to fall asleep or look the other way, IMO). ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28309 "2016-04-02T21:00:33Z")
Let me see if I understand this. If you don’t want _government_ to have enough power to balance corporate power, and you don’t want _unions_ to either, that means… ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28310 "2016-04-02T21:02:54Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Let me see if I understand this. If you don’t want _government_ to have enough power to balance corporate power, and you don’t want _unions_ to either, that means… Free[del]bird[/del]market! ---
**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 2, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28311 "2016-04-02T21:10:39Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Let me see if I understand this. If you don’t want _government_ to have enough power to balance corporate power, and you don’t want _unions_ to either, that means… Corporations are the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human beings I’ve ever known in my life! I think I’ll play some solitaire… ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28312 "2016-04-02T22:16:55Z")
[Ted Cruz](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/04/02/gop-freak-show-watch-ted-cruz-have-the-uncanny-ability-to-speak-out-of-his-ass-video/): > [@](#): > > We are one liberal Justice away from a radical five justice majority the likes of which this country’s never seen. > We are one justice away from the Supreme Court effectively stripping religious liberty from Americans all across this country. > We are one justice away from the Court effectively erasing the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights. > We are one Justice away from the Supreme Court making us subject to the world court and the United Nations and international law and giving up U.S. sovereignty ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28313 "2016-04-02T22:26:26Z")
You know, I wonder how the Republican Party actually does it. Like, for as long as I can remember paying a token interest to American politics, they’ve always been overhyping whatever it is that was happening as “THE NEXT STEP IS LITERALLY HITLER !!!”. Which of course never materializes. And yet, it still seems to work for them. The boy who cried wolf, eat your silly little heart out. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28314 "2016-04-02T23:18:13Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > You know, I wonder how the Republican Party actually does it. Like, for as long as I can remember paying a token interest to American politics, they’ve always been overhyping whatever it is that was happening as “THE NEXT STEP IS LITERALLY HITLER !!!”. Which of course never materializes. And yet, it still seems to work for them. > The boy who cried wolf, eat your silly little heart out. You have to remember that in American, the definition of “literally” is _“somewhere in the range from ‘very’ to ‘literally’”_. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28315 "2016-04-03T01:12:32Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ted Cruz](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/04/02/gop-freak-show-watch-ted-cruz-have-the-uncanny-ability-to-speak-out-of-his-ass-video/): "We are one liberal Justice away from a radical five justice majority the likes of which this country’s never seen.” And it’s going to be _awesome!_ ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28316 "2016-04-03T04:03:30Z")
> [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](#): > > "We are one liberal Justice away from a radical five justice majority the likes of which this country’s never seen.” Impeach Earl Warren!!! We want physicals for our candidates, but we should really be checking their level of paranoia. Back in 1972 or 73 Firesign Theatre had an album where George Pappoon ran for president on the platform that he was not insane. Kasich should try this strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28317 "2016-04-03T05:43:13Z")
“We are one justice away from the Supreme Court effectively stripping religious liberty from Americans all across this country.” Wait, didn’t this supposedly happen already? The Supreme Court took away religious freedom, which is why Congress needed to pass RFRA. And who was it who wrote that horrible [opinion](https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/494/872)? > [@](#): > > Justice SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. Oh. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28318 "2016-04-03T07:12:21Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > “We are one justice away from the Supreme Court effectively stripping religious liberty from Americans all across this country.” > > Wait, didn’t this supposedly happen already? The Supreme Court took away religious freedom, which is why Congress needed to pass RFRA. And who was it who wrote that horrible [opinion](https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/494/872)? > > Quote: > Justice SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. > > Oh. > [@](#): > > Justice SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. You mean the MAJORITY opinion. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28319 "2016-04-03T13:16:47Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Impeach Earl Warren!!! > > We want physicals for our candidates, but we should really be checking their level of paranoia. > > Back in 1972 or 73 Firesign Theatre had an album where George Pappoon ran for president on the platform that he was not insane. Kasich should try this strategy. Not since Thomas Eagleton have we had a candidate who was [Certified NOT INSANE] ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28320 "2016-04-03T14:44:44Z")
Shocking. Positively shocking. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28321 "2016-04-03T17:12:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ted Cruz](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/04/02/gop-freak-show-watch-ted-cruz-have-the-uncanny-ability-to-speak-out-of-his-ass-video/): > > > [@](#): > > > > We are one liberal Justice away from a radical five justice majority the likes of which this country’s never seen. > > We are one justice away from the Supreme Court effectively stripping religious liberty from Americans all across this country. > > We are one justice away from the Court effectively erasing the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights. > > We are one Justice away from the Supreme Court making us subject to the world court and the United Nations and international law and giving up U.S. sovereignty Thank-you Ayatollah Cruz. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1415) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1417)