# 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:** 1465
**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:** [May 24, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29282 "2016-05-24T00:25:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > No. There are theoretical limits, it is simply not possible to be that stupid. There aren’t, and it is. We’ve all born witness to it. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29283 "2016-05-24T21:14:09Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > DUDE - turn off that stupid “sent by my idiot phone by tapping on the damn thing option that I can’t seem to find and that gets turned on again with every update as a lame advertising attempt.” But I never revisit any thread I post to, so I never see that Tappity-Talk has added a sentence to every single one of my posts. ::vintage roll-eyes:: Sent via Netscape from my Mac Cube with half a gig of ram, that round puck-mouse, a steampunky CRT… and OS 7.5.1. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29284 "2016-05-24T21:24:23Z")
People always love strong leaders who “get things done”. Until those things are not what THEY want done. Then that leader is a monstrous fascist communist dictator or something. Sent via mental telepathy and ‘spooky action from a distance’ to a disused telegraph clicker in a warehouse in Albany, then transcribed on paper by the semi-retired janitor and sent via US Mail to a random person whose family is kidnapped until they post it here. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29285 "2016-05-25T01:17:12Z")
**Chimera** : I don’t know which I admire more, your post or your delectable post-script! I love you and want to graft additional body parts onto you! Do you have room for a bear’s head? I think a chimera with a bear’s head would be mega coo! And…yeah…legislation from strength. Right now, California is doing, with gun control, pretty much what Utah is doing, with abortion. I’m on opposite sides here: no, the states must not infringe on the constitution…and yes, yay, go California! Very awkward. The H word. (Hydrophobia?) Anyway… ---
**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 25, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29286 "2016-05-25T02:48:14Z")
If you’re afraid of water, California might be about the best state for you. So, win-win. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29287 "2016-05-25T02:50:12Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > People always love strong leaders who “get things done”. > > Until those things are not what THEY want done. > > Then that leader is a monstrous fascist communist dictator or something. As well as an entire disregard of the American system of checks and balances whenever a branch checks shit they like. ‘Legislating from the Bench!’, ‘executive overreach!’ ---
**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:** [May 25, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29288 "2016-05-25T03:31:18Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > The H word. (Hydrophobia?) Anyway… [Hoplophobia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplophobia) ---
**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:** [May 25, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29289 "2016-05-25T05:17:27Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > [Hoplophobia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplophobia) Fear of hoplites? Well, I suppose it’s perfectly rational to want to avoid the side of a phalanx with all the pointy bits. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29290 "2016-05-25T11:08:40Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > … The H word. (Hydrophobia?) Anyway… That seems more like [a word to describe the subjects of this thread](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Hydrophobia). ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29291 "2016-05-25T22:28:23Z")
I’m making up a list of people I want to bite. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29292 "2016-05-25T22:44:46Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Sent via Netscape from my Mac Cube with half a gig of ram, that round puck-mouse, a steampunky CRT… and OS 7.5.1. How the hell did you get 7.5.1 to run on a cube? ---
**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 25, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29293 "2016-05-25T22:50:07Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I’m making up a list of people I want to bite. Wouldn’t the other list be a lot shorter? ---
**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:** [May 25, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29294 "2016-05-25T23:12:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > How the hell did you get 7.5.1 to run on a cube? Oops, got it wrong. The Cubic Mac is running 10.4 now… but I did keep it OG for a long time (not a hipster thing, a cheapster thing). Just looked it up, and it was 9.0.4, while its deskmate was running 7.5.1. I miss those days, chugging along on an eighth of a gig of ram… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29295 "2016-05-25T23:31:14Z")
That’s not chugging, that’s oozing. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29296 "2016-05-26T00:33:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Trump campaign adviser [Michael Caputo](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-target-hillary-clinton-whitewater-223570)on Wednesday morning emailed a researcher at the Republican National Committee asking him to “work up information on HRC/Whitewater as soon as possible. This is for immediate use and for the afternoon talking points process.” > > The email was obtained by POLITICO when Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks, who Caputo copied on his request to the RNC, accidentally responded instead to Marc Caputo, a POLITICO reporter who is not related to the Republican consultant. In other years this would have been a major scandal. With the craziness that is Trump, it’s simply business as usual. Trump names [Elliot Broidy](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-moneyman-shady-history-000000205.html) as a co-chair of his campaign committee. Broidy escaped prison by ratting out the New York State officials he had bribed. > [@](#): > > [ALBANY (2012)](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/no-jail-time-guilty-israeli-investor-article-1.1209146) — The high-powered Israeli investor who pleaded guilty to giving $1 million in bribes to four top state pension fund officials — including disgraced ex-controller Alan Hevesi — got off with a slap on the wrist. > > Nearly three years after pleading guilty to his role in a massive state pension fund pay-to-play scandal, Elliott Broidy received no prison time at his sentencing this week. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29297 "2016-05-26T00:44:39Z")
I’m more surprised a campaign adviser thinks Whitewater will still resonate at all with anyone outside the choir. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29298 "2016-05-26T01:01:52Z")
It simply will not do to give _those_ people [too much access](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/wisconsin-county-clerk-objects-to-weekend-voting-because-it-gives-urban-areas-too-much-access/), amirite? > [@](#): > > A Wisconsin county clerk testified in federal court this week that weekend voting should be eliminated because it gave urban areas “too much access” to the polls… > > The county clerk added that long lines in urban areas were actually a sign that voters had enough access to polls. > > “Apparently access is an easy thing or they wouldn’t have long lines,” she opined. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29299 "2016-05-26T01:12:13Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I’m more surprised a campaign adviser thinks Whitewater will still resonate at all with anyone outside the choir. This is the break the Dole campaign has been waiting for. ---
**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 26, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29300 "2016-05-26T01:54:53Z")
[Karl Rove’s Super PAC is endorsing Debbie Wasserman Schultz in her re-election bid because of all she’s done to wreck the Democratic Party.](http://www.salon.com/2016/05/25/strange_bedfellows_karl_rove_tea_party_express_endorse_debbie_wasserman_schultz_in_democratic_primary_fight/) ---
**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:** [May 26, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29301 "2016-05-26T05:55:53Z")
Not sure if this has been mentioned, since it was first published six months ago. I only recently got wind of it. AZ senator Flake put out a [lengthy report on government waste](http://www.flake.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/03714fa3-e01d-46a1-9c19-299533056741/wastebook---the-farce-awakens.pdf) that is designed to numb the reader’s brain with its exhaustiveness. (Do _not_ click that link. It leads to a large pdf that is quite annoying to look at. There are about 200 pages of blather and 80 pages of biblio.) I mean, it seems as though the irony is lost on the guy. How much did it cost his team to put this inane thing together? At least old Bill Proxmire did his golden fleece thing with a certain flair. Flake just comes off looking like, uh, nope, not going to say it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1464) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1466)