# 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:** 1493
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29842 "2016-07-01T00:15:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > In terms of NR’s argument, it is invalid because the Constitution guarantees rights relative to _the Government_: it does not protect us _from each other_. If they ever get around to passing the 28[sup]th[/sup] amendment, > **Amendment XVIII** [INDENT]_Section 1: Don’t be an asshole. > Section 2: There is no section two._[/INDENT] > > that might change things. Most notably, it would almost certainly wipe out the Republiopathic Party. Doesn’t XVIII = 18? I think you meant XXVIII. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29843 "2016-07-01T00:28:32Z")
Yeah, the 18th was already repealed. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29844 "2016-07-01T02:10:26Z")
[Gov. LePage, angry at legislature, threatens to cut Drugs for the Elderly program](http://mainebeacon.com/gov-lepage-angry-at-legislature-threatens-to-cut-drugs-for-the-elderly-program/) > [@](#): > > Maine Governor Paul LePage announced on Monday that, due to a refusal of legislative leaders to call a special session to reconsider certain legislation, he will use an executive order to begin making cuts to and transfers from a set of state-administered health care programs, including the Low Cost Drugs for the Elderly and Disabled Program and the Fund for a Healthy Maine. I bet Maine is really looking forward to kicking his ass to the curb. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29845 "2016-07-01T02:24:24Z")
Shit like this is why I consider LePage evil instead of just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29846 "2016-07-01T03:16:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Shit like this is why I consider LePage evil instead of just stupid. Seriously, it’s like he wakes up in the morning and asks himself, “What can I do to be an even bigger asshole today?” ---
**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:** [July 1, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29847 "2016-07-01T03:28:24Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Yeah, the 18th was already repealed. I _have_ known one or two people who were drunk assholes, as well as asshole drunks. but not poufters ---
**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:** [July 1, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29848 "2016-07-01T22:51:09Z")
[Governor McCrory (Idiot, NC) wants to transfer $500,000 in state disaster relief funds into a fund to defend the state against anti-HB2 lawsuits.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/n-c-gov-mccrory-wants-500000-in-disaster-relief-funding-to-defend-anti-trans-law/) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29849 "2016-07-02T00:01:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Governor McCrory (Idiot, NC) wants to transfer $500,000 in state disaster relief funds into a fund to defend the state against anti-HB2 lawsuits.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/n-c-gov-mccrory-wants-500000-in-disaster-relief-funding-to-defend-anti-trans-law/) If Republicans are so concerned about big government, and so concerned about spending, maybe they should stop passing stupid intrusive laws that they then have to spend tax dollars to defend. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2016, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29850 "2016-07-02T11:02:24Z")
(While fumbling through my mess of a library looking for my latest _Atlantic Monthly_, I stumbled on a 3-year old issue. :smack: ) Recall that surveys based on self-reporting show that Republicans are more generous than Democrats. [It turns out that, not only are they less generous, but they lie more often. 😛](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/12/do-democrats-make-better-neighbors/354676/) ---
**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:** [July 3, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29851 "2016-07-03T18:31:19Z")
Tom Cotton has to be asked 3 times by Chuck Todd why he supports Donald Trump. > **[Republican Senator Has To Be Asked Three Times To Explain Why He Supports...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tom-cotton_n_57791a59e4b0416464104958?yptr=yahoo&ref=yfp)** > > He says Trump can "make the case for himself." ---
**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:** [July 3, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29852 "2016-07-03T19:06:32Z")
[Fox News had to assure its viewers that the Statue of Liberty is not transgender.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/is-lady-liberty-a-man-fox-worries-france-pulled-a-fast-one-with-transgender-statue-of-liberty/) ---
**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:** [July 4, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29853 "2016-07-04T00:00:18Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Tom Cotton has to be asked 3 times by Chuck Todd why he supports Donald Trump. > > [Republican Senator Has To Be Asked Three Times To Explain Why He Supports Donald Trump | HuffPost Latest News](http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57791a59e4b0416464104958?yptr=yahoo&ref=yfp) The takeaway line from that article is:[ > [@Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)](#): > > Maybe I don’t just demonstrate enthusiasm much in life, Chuck, especially in such dangerous times as this. ]([Republican Senator Has To Be Asked Three Times To Explain Why He Supports Donald Trump | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tom-cotton_us_57791a59e4b0416464104958?yptr=yahoo&ref=yfp))And yet I keep reading how overall, this is a much safer, much less armed-conflict-y time to live than any other in the history of civilization. I guess Sen. Cotton and I don’t read the same things. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29854 "2016-07-04T18:18:15Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > And yet I keep reading how overall, this is a much safer, much less armed-conflict-y time to live than any other in the history of civilization. I guess Sen. Cotton and I don’t read the same things. I have a friend who is a liberal Democrat, but her husband watches Fox News constantly and she absorbs a lot of what they’re saying. I have been in an argument with her for several years about how things are really much better now, but I can’t seem to get through to her. The other day someone had posted a graph of homicide rates in the U.S. since its founding, showing the steady downward trend, so I printed it out and showed it to her. Her response was, “I don’t believe it,” and she went on to tell me the story of some recent horrible murder. Conservative media has really done a number on people with fearmongering. Add to that the insistence that facts aren’t important, and that what you feel in your gut is the truth, and there’s no way to convince them that we really are safer now. Don’t even get me started on the attitudes toward kids’ safety – it’s insane that people worry more about stranger abductions than they do about talking on their cell phones while driving. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29855 "2016-07-04T18:54:12Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > but not poufters Tenth? Hundredth? Thousandth Python reference? Doesn’t matter. And we’ll have no pooofters! 😉 ---
**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:** [July 4, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29856 "2016-07-04T19:52:40Z")
[Allen West is upset at the War on Independence Day](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/move-aside-christmas-conservatives-now-losing-it-over-a-non-existent-war-on-independence-day/) > [@](#): > > [I’ve been amazed at how people greet you with “Happy 4th of July”, as if we are celebrating a numbered date on the calendar. If this continues, there will be generations who will no longer know what happened on this day, other than we should have cookouts and shoot off fireworks. > > Today is our 240th American Independence Day, a significant day not just for America, but for the world.]([http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/i-see-something-very-disturbing-happening-today](http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/i-see-something-very-disturbing-happening-today)) My favorite part, though, is that he thinks people should say “Steadfast and Loyal, Happy 240th American Independence Day!” ---
**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:** [July 4, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29857 "2016-07-04T20:10:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Allen West is upset at the War on Independence Day](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/move-aside-christmas-conservatives-now-losing-it-over-a-non-existent-war-on-independence-day/) > > My favorite part, though, is that he thinks people should say “Steadfast and Loyal, Happy 240th American Independence Day!” I was born in 1960 and it’s never been anything but the 4th of July. Good thing that July is always added. I might forget what month the holiday takes place in. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29858 "2016-07-04T20:11:05Z")
So edumacate a dirty foreigner… what’s so significant about the 240th, then ? I mean, 250 I could see, and 200 goes without saying. But who gives a hoot about the 240th \*anything \*? ---
**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:** [July 4, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29859 "2016-07-04T20:28:44Z")
Nothing at all significant about 240 ---
**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:** [July 4, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29860 "2016-07-04T20:37:26Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Nothing at all significant about 240 Now, _420_ … ---
**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:** [July 4, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29861 "2016-07-04T21:20:42Z")
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