# 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:** 1462
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29222 "2016-05-20T08:12:36Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > And the same people who ardently admire that guy try to smear _Obama_ as clueless or ignorant? It is to laugh. Well, mainly **adaher** , who’s about 40 watts short of a low-watt bulb. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29223 "2016-05-20T12:09:28Z")
The U.S. has the 2nd highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world, behind only the tiny Seychelles. But [Tom Cotton (Senator-Arkansas) Thinks America Isn’t Locking Enough People Up](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tom-cotton-criminal-justice_us_573e3305e4b00e09e89e8cad). Cotton “argued that policy goals like reducing mandatory minimum sentences, restoring voting rights for felons and reducing barriers to employment for ex-offenders are misguided and dangerous.” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29224 "2016-05-20T12:31:25Z")
You know how the Senate hates competition Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [May 20, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29225 "2016-05-20T12:32:45Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > And the same people who ardently admire that guy try to smear _Obama_ as clueless or ignorant? It is to laugh. It’s as if Mike Teevee were elected president. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29226 "2016-05-20T14:06:06Z")
This probably belongs in the Malicious Republicans thread but I’ll post it here. [An amendment making it harder for federal contractors to discriminate against LGBT workers passed the House with a vote of 217-206.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lgbt-discrimination-ndaa_us_573de95de4b0ef86171d8400) Or rather it would have passed, had the man in the Speaker’s chair followed the rules and pounded his gavel when time expired. Instead he kept the vote open improperly for several more minutes while GOP whips hassled members who weren’t anti-LGBT enough (perhaps blackmailing them about their own sexual indiscretions?) while Democrats chanted “Shame Shame Shame.” When the vote finally went to 212-213, _then_ the gavel was pounded. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29227 "2016-05-20T16:25:56Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > [Trump’s Maryland delegate indicted on child porn charges](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/md-trump-delegate-indicted-child-pornography-weapons-charges). And also illegal possession of a machine gun and the illegal transportation of explosives. 😕 What kind of child-porn is he making that involves machine guns and explosives?! This rather pushes the Rule 34 envelope! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29228 "2016-05-20T16:35:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 😕 What kind of child-porn is he making that involves machine guns and explosives?! This rather pushes the Rule 34 envelope! If you have to ask… ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29229 "2016-05-20T17:01:43Z")
Oklahoma Republicans are going to impeach the president. They mean it this time. Not because of Obamacare, but because of - you guessed it - [bathrooms.](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oklahoma-lgbt-idUSKCN0YB1Z0) Because they are biblically wrong. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29230 "2016-05-20T17:11:38Z")
State legislatures seem to have remarkably few actual local issues to deal with. Lucky devils. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29231 "2016-05-20T17:29:48Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Oklahoma Republicans are going to impeach the president. They mean it this time. Not because of Obamacare, but because of - you guessed it - [bathrooms.](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oklahoma-lgbt-idUSKCN0YB1Z0) Because they are biblically wrong. Or something. God damn that article is so full of stupid: > [@](#): > > Lawmakers in the socially conservative state are also expected to take up a measure as early as Friday that would allow students to claim a religious right to have **separate but equal** bathrooms and changing facilities to segregate them from transgender students. Hmm… That term sounds vaguely familiar. Worked out so well for us last time, amIright? :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [May 20, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29232 "2016-05-20T18:09:59Z")
I wonder what the door symbol should be for the “bigoted godbotherer” bathroom. (if it were up to me, they’d open on a brick wall with a sign simply saying “Get over yourself.”) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29233 "2016-05-20T18:30:20Z")
A Facebook friend of mine shared this the other day: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/rA1ey7g.jpeg "protect the children! separate bathrooms for priests") ](https://imgur.com/rA1ey7g) For those not inclined to click, the picture has suggested bathroom icons for male, female, and priests. To protect the children. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29234 "2016-05-20T18:41:06Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > State legislatures seem to have remarkably few actual local issues to deal with. Lucky devils. You’d think they’d be more concerned with problems like having to live in Oklahoma. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29235 "2016-05-20T18:43:36Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > You’d think they’d be more concerned with problems like having to live in Oklahoma. First off, doing something about that damned wind. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29236 "2016-05-20T19:04:06Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > First off, doing something about that damned wind. That “damn wind” has got a name-Maria, thank you very much! ---
**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:** [May 20, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29237 "2016-05-20T19:15:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That “damn wind” has got a name-Maria, thank you very much! Wrong musical. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29238 "2016-05-20T19:19:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That “damn wind” has got a name-Maria, thank you very much! > [@running\_coach](#): > > Wrong musical. Oh, that fixed your little painted wagon! ---
**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:** [May 20, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29239 "2016-05-20T19:22:40Z")
[Kansas anti-abortion group wants potential political candidates to pledge to oppose human-animal hybrids.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/not-crazy-kansas-anti-abortion-group-demands-lawmakers-oppose-mythical-human-animal-hybrids/) ---
**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:** [May 20, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29240 "2016-05-20T19:26:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Kansas anti-abortion group wants potential political candidates to pledge to oppose human-animal hybrids.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/not-crazy-kansas-anti-abortion-group-demands-lawmakers-oppose-mythical-human-animal-hybrids/) Do they think that the Democrats are going to nominate Dr. Moreau or something? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29241 "2016-05-20T20:16:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Kansas anti-abortion group wants potential political candidates to pledge to oppose human-animal hybrids.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/not-crazy-kansas-anti-abortion-group-demands-lawmakers-oppose-mythical-human-animal-hybrids/) They’re throwing stones from a glass house, as the sheep and cattle of Kansas can attest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1461) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1463)