# 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:** 1628
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32542 "2017-02-08T02:11:02Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I didn’t, but that’s because I long ago gave up on opening any of your useless, misleading, and unreliably headlined links. Yeah, Addicting Info is trash. Sure, the people who run the site seem to generally share my political views, but it’s just clickbait and/or rehashing (often poorly or dishonestly) the actual journalism performed by other news outlets. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32543 "2017-02-08T02:26:45Z")
Is there any real evidence as to the political persuasion of the guy who shot, non-fatally BTW, Congresswoman Giffords or is that just something that righties tell each other. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32544 "2017-02-08T02:37:14Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Is there any real evidence as to the political persuasion of the guy who shot, non-fatally BTW, Congresswoman Giffords or is that just something that righties tell each other. It is just something RWs tell each other. Loughner was apparently all over the map, and rather big on CTs. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32545 "2017-02-08T02:38:38Z")
[His politics read as generally right-wing/Libertarian. Certainly not marxist.](http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/extremism/arizona-shooters-online.html) He was a gold-bug, frex. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32546 "2017-02-08T02:45:49Z")
According to his Wikipedia page, one classmate said that he was politically left-wing prior to his radical personality shift in 2007. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32547 "2017-02-08T02:49:24Z")
Yeah, that would have been a classmate _in Arizona_. What does “left-wing” mean to Arizonans? ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32548 "2017-02-08T02:50:52Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > According to his Wikipedia page, one classmate said that he was politically left-wing prior to his radical personality shift in 2007. So you’re saying that he was leftwing until he descended into severe mental illness, then became a rightwinger? Huh. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32549 "2017-02-08T02:55:44Z")
Apparently it’s against the rules to say mean things about a Senator Snowflake: > [@](#): > > [Senate votes to silence Warren after speech against Sessions](http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/318422-senate-votes-to-silence-warren-after-sessions-speech) > > …Under the Senate’s “Rule 19,” senators are not allowed to “directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator."… > > …Warren quoted a 1986 speech from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) who referred to Sessions as a “throwback to a shameful era” and a “disgrace” to the Justice Department… ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32550 "2017-02-08T04:02:43Z")
[Even though Chuck Schumer was criticized on the floor of the Senate just last week.](http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/02/sen-david-perdue-chuck-schumers-tears-worthy-of-the-screen-actors-guild-awards/) ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32551 "2017-02-08T11:52:15Z")
Have they not heard of the Streisand Effect? They just turned Coretta Scott King’s letter into news. Elizabeth Warren is going to be crying all the way to the bank over this. Mitch McConnell practically wrote her a campaign slogan when he said “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” She’s probably already ordering a batch of fundraising kitsch with “nevertheless, she persisted” on it. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32552 "2017-02-08T12:53:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [A lot of good things came out of the Charleston Church massacre.](http://addictinginfo.org/2017/02/07/gop-rep-wants-you-to-look-at-all-the-good-that-came-from-the-charleston-massacre-video/) I’m ashamed of the district I grew up in. It was represented from 1947 through 1972 by Melvin Laird and then from 1973 through 2010 by David Obey when he retired. Then this asshole won and got it gerrymandered (took way Portage County) so he could keep winning. Other coverage, [GOP Rep: ‘There’s A Difference’ Between White And Islamic Terrorists (VIDEO)](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sean-duffy-difference-white-and-radical-islamic-terrorists). > [@](#): > > When Camerota brought up other examples of white people committing acts of terrorism—the Oklahoma City bombing and the Charleston shooting of black church-goers—Duffy was dismissive. Good grief. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32553 "2017-02-08T16:15:24Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > Have they not heard of the Streisand Effect? They just turned Coretta Scott King’s letter into news. > > Elizabeth Warren is going to be crying all the way to the bank over this. Mitch McConnell practically wrote her a campaign slogan when he said “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” She’s probably already ordering a batch of fundraising kitsch with “nevertheless, she persisted” on it. Better yet, the Democrats followed up by having Senators Merkley and Udall read the letter, forcing Yertle Turtle to choose between repeating his objection and drawing even more attention to the issue or letting it slide and making his original objection look like sexist asshattery instead of just generic asshattery. (He chose the latter.) ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32554 "2017-02-08T16:32:19Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > Mitch McConnell practically wrote her a campaign slogan when he said “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” Anybody else hearing this in the trailer voice ? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32555 "2017-02-08T17:28:25Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I didn’t, but that’s because I long ago gave up on opening any of your useless, misleading, and unreliably headlined links. +1 ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32556 "2017-02-08T18:13:12Z")
I clicked to the page, and was appalled by the story. But finding the “video” was frustrating. (The first clickable “video” link linked back to itself!) I repost some of these videos on my own website but hunt for the YouTube version — there usually is one — rather than (as is all too typical, though not the case here: their video links to Twitter) forcing the clicker to log-in to Facebook. :smack: ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32557 "2017-02-08T18:16:23Z")
nm - duplicate ---
**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:** [February 8, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32558 "2017-02-08T18:53:25Z")
An interesting historical note: [Rule Used to Silence Warren Was Created to Protect Delicate Feelings of Senate’s Foremost Lynching Advocate](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/02/08/elizabeth_warren_rule_19_and_white_supremacist_ben_tillman.html) ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32559 "2017-02-08T23:54:20Z")
The rule exists to moderate Senate debate much as this board is moderated. Just as we’re not supposed to call each other liars, Senators are supposed to not basically call each other “bad people”. But Sessions is no longer just a Senator. He’s vieing to leave the body. Warren was perfectly right to say what she said and this is so reminiscent of how the Delay House used to run. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32560 "2017-02-09T06:02:55Z")
[Ted Cruz shoves his foot so far in his mouth it comes out his ass.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ted-cruz-congratulated-woman-having-192237191.html) > [@](#): > > Multiple sclerosis patient on Medicaid asks @tedcruz what will happen to her coverage w/repeal. > Cruz: “Congratulations on dealing with MS.” Of course, since he’s fighting hard to make sure she has no coverage at all, maybe that was a hint. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32561 "2017-02-09T11:26:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Even though Chuck Schumer was criticized on the floor of the Senate just last week.](http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/02/sen-david-perdue-chuck-schumers-tears-worthy-of-the-screen-actors-guild-awards/) 😕 Rule XIX is specifically to prevent Senators in the Minority from insulting Senators in the Majority (or at least this is the case with a Republiopathic majority). Did you imagine the reality could be otherwise? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1627) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1629)