# 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:** 163
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3241 "2011-07-15T20:31:02Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > I think maybe if unemployment doesn’t go below 9% we should sacrifice someone. The only wya to be sure that gawd is on our side. > > -Joe Rick Perry seems eager to speak on our behalf (whether we want him to or not). ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3242 "2011-07-15T21:07:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) thinks the problems facing America are so challenging, [they should just be "turned over to God](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-chuck-currie/rick-perry-god-texas_b_898841.html) It’s Yahweh or the Highway. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3243 "2011-07-15T21:14:55Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > It’s Yahweh or the Highway. People have died horribly for less. ---
**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 15, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3244 "2011-07-15T21:26:15Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Very amusing, Mr. **Lobohan** , but I assume you realize that a nomination for stupidest Republican idea is ineligible unless it’s uttered by someone capable of … er … ideation. > > BTW, any fans of Mr. **Galveston** ’s thinking can learn more by clicking on his name and clicking some more to get to: > > \*Of course, Ephesus was only one of seven churches that Jesus wrote to in that part of the world. \* Say WHAT? Where in the Bible does it say anything about Jesus writing, except in the dirt. PAUL wrote to the church in Ephesus. There wasn’t one when Jesus was alive, nor were there the other six **Galveston** mentioned. Ya gotta wonder when people who want to beat us over the head with their ideas of what Jesus wants can’t get the simplest Bible stuff right. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3245 "2011-07-15T22:58:32Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > (pleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbowpleasesayrainbow) > > -Joe _weary sigh_ [del] Sexlexia. [/del] Rainbow. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3246 "2011-07-15T23:00:10Z")
> [@galveston](#): > > Big deal! Enhanced interrogation led in a chain to the whereabouts of Bin Laden. All Obama had to do was give the green light. > > Does anyone remember when pirates had American hostages at sea? Obama dithered for 3 days before he could make up his mind whether or not to let the Commanding Officer on the scene take out those pirates. > > Be glad that Truman did not dither a corresponding (in proportion to the gravity of the situation) length of time before ordering the “A” bomb attack on Japan. Awhahahahahaha! But you forgot your chalkboard. And you forgot to tell us just what did happen to that poor girl in 1990 and how you were or were not involved. You have nothing to hide if you’re innocent! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3247 "2011-07-15T23:17:54Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Say WHAT? Where in the Bible does it say anything about Jesus writing, except in the dirt. PAUL wrote to the church in Ephesus. There wasn’t one when Jesus was alive, nor were there the other six **Galveston** mentioned. > > Ya gotta wonder when people who want to beat us over the head with their ideas of what Jesus wants can’t get the simplest Bible stuff right. Yeah. Btw, John wrote the Apocalypse to the seven churches in Asia (incl. Ephesus). Paul wrote seven letters to different churches, but not all in Asia (two in Balkan Greece, one in Italy). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3248 "2011-07-15T23:20:07Z")
Lightbulbs? Lightbulbs? Shirely no one is going to bitch about better lightbulbs, why, that would be stupid! > **[A Republican House victory for inefficient lightbulbs](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/07/15/994997/-A-Republican-House-victory-for-inefficientlightbulbs-?via=blog_1)** > > When economic Armageddon comes because House ... Lightbulbs. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3249 "2011-07-15T23:20:25Z")
> [@galveston](#): > > Does anyone remember when pirates had American hostages at sea? Obama dithered for 3 days before he could make up his mind whether or not to let the Commanding Officer on the scene take out those pirates. First time I’ve heard “taking time to weigh all options to try to ensure that the situation doesn’t devolve into a clusterfuck of monumental proportions” described as “dithering.” Of course, if he’d made a hasty decision, some people would have condemned him for rushing into the situation instead of sitting back and taking time to weigh all the options. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3250 "2011-07-15T23:23:43Z")
Such calm deliberation is surprising. Why, just the other day, he screamed, tore up all his papers and threw them at Eric Cantor, then ran from the room crying like a little bitch… Who? Well, Sean Hannity, he told me… ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3251 "2011-07-16T00:10:48Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Say WHAT? Where in the Bible does it say anything about Jesus writing, except in the dirt. PAUL wrote to the church in Ephesus. There wasn’t one when Jesus was alive, nor were there the other six **Galveston** mentioned. > > Ya gotta wonder when people who want to beat us over the head with their ideas of what Jesus wants can’t get the simplest Bible stuff right. What he’s talking about (I think!) is the seven short letters that the Holy Spirit had John write at Jesus’s behest at the beginning of Revelation. One of them was addressed to “the angel of the church at Ephesus” and sort of fits the st5uff he’s trying to draw from it. Of course, the Bibliolators tend to regard every word in the Bible as the explicit word of God, including the stuff Paul wrote where he specifically differentiates between what he supposedly got from Jesus and where he’s giving his own opinion as guidance. It stopped being a collection of “inspired” literature for them and instead became a leatherbound India-paper red-letter security blankie. ---
**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 16, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3252 "2011-07-16T03:26:14Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > What he’s talking about (I think!) is the seven short letters that the Holy Spirit had John write at Jesus’s behest at the beginning of Revelation. One of them was addressed to “the angel of the church at Ephesus” and sort of fits the st5uff he’s trying to draw from it. What do I know? I’m a lapsed Catholic who became a piss-poor Lutheran and neither branch pays much attention to Revelation, near as I can tell without putting more effort into it than I care to. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3253 "2011-07-16T19:22:08Z")
Can God create a debt so large He cannot pay it off? ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3254 "2011-07-16T20:16:55Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) thinks the problems facing America are so challenging, [they should just be "turned over to God](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-chuck-currie/rick-perry-god-texas_b_898841.html)."Keep your god out of my government. If you can’t fix the problems we face, just stay out of the way of the people who can. Didn’t he also have a Day of Prayer in April to address the drought situation? I guess the drought in Texas is over now. Whew! Thanks, God. I also understand the governor of Oklahoma “called for people to pray for rain in church on Sunday.” “‘The power of prayer is a wonderful thing, and I would ask every Oklahoman to look to a greater power this weekend and ask for rain,’ she said.” [Cite](http://www.newser.com/story/123521/oklahoma-governor-asks-residents-to-pray-for-rain.html). Hey, if it can work for Texas… What? Oh. Well, maybe God likes Okies better than he likes Texans. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3255 "2011-07-16T21:24:52Z")
How about them Republicans, insisting on continuing their disastrous spending policies and balking at any attempt to raise taxes to pay for them? They are perfectly willing to let the country default on its debt rather than accept raising taxes on rich people or corporations. Gotta spend, spend, spend without any income, don’cha know? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3256 "2011-07-16T21:44:12Z")
[Now they are hinting that they’ll kill minimum wage and overtime laws](http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/blog/2011/07/minimum-wage-overtime-protecti.shtml). C’mon you GOP apologists here, please attempt to justify this, you pathetic little puppets, you mindless drones, you hypocritical blatherskites. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3257 "2011-07-16T22:01:37Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > [Now they are hinting that they’ll kill minimum wage and overtime laws](http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/blog/2011/07/minimum-wage-overtime-protecti.shtml). C’mon you GOP apologists here, please attempt to justify this, you pathetic little puppets, you mindless drones, you hypocritical blatherskites. I bet they can’t do it without saying “Job-killing regulations!” ---
**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 16, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3258 "2011-07-16T22:43:24Z")
It seems they’re victims of their success. They’ve manages to convince a sizable portion of the populace that raising the debt ceiling would cause serious damage to the economy. Meanwhile their real constituents, Wall Street executives are screaming at them to get off their asses nag raise the debt ceiling before they really do damage the economy. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3259 "2011-07-16T22:53:36Z")
The linked video on that blog shows Kucinich right on the money (so to speak). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3260 "2011-07-17T01:33:06Z")
My preference is generally to browse without the sound turned on. Is his excuse me money quote available in text? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=162) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=164)