# 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:** 1660
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33182 "2017-03-21T22:34:45Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Is Fox News actually developing some semblance of journalistic integrity? Nah, they’re just sacrificing their goat to protect their president and themselves. Must not blame Trump, must not blame Fox, ergo must blame goat. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33183 "2017-03-21T23:27:57Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Bat Shit For Brains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Perry_(politician)) is also a “Brigadier General” in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Not that I like the dude (as I don’t), but why the quotation marks? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33184 "2017-03-21T23:28:06Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > How long before he wants to drop a nuke on Kansas because he read a _National Enquirer_ story about aliens landing in a cornfield? What would you do if you were a military officer responsible for executing that order? That’s easy, you pay the _National Enquirer_ to run a story saying Kansas was nuked. Trump reads it and is happy, and it’s got to be cheaper than actually bombing Kansas. Win-win. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33185 "2017-03-21T23:45:37Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Also, the smallest three-house town has a church (where I am from, by contrast, the smallest three-house town has a tavern). Wisconsin? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33186 "2017-03-21T23:47:50Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Or a shovel. [Or a catapult.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/14/drug-catapult-arizona-mexico-border-fence/97929694/)😉 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33187 "2017-03-21T23:50:03Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > That in turn got me wondering how a person could run a gas station while barely knowing how to read. There weren’t any verger’s jobs open? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33188 "2017-03-22T01:05:20Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Wisconsin? Or the west of Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33189 "2017-03-22T01:09:53Z")
We stayed in Leenaun once, in a B&B, on a biking tour. There were about six houses, and two pubs. We asked the boniface which one he drinked in, and he said “Well, we go to the one…then we go to t’other.” ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33190 "2017-03-22T01:26:26Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Love that link. He ended up in diversion after lying about shit. :smack: ISWYDT. 😃 > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > There weren’t any verger’s jobs open? You too, Mom… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33191 "2017-03-22T02:43:57Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > We stayed in Leenaun once, in a B&B, on a biking tour. There were about six houses, and two pubs. We asked the boniface which one he drinked in, and he said “Well, we go to the one…then we go to t’other.” Sure, an’ that’s why there’s two of 'em. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33192 "2017-03-22T05:53:55Z")
The Republican Party of Virginia is demanding that the state’s Democratic Attorney General apologize for speaking at a mosque. > **[Virginia GOP Demands Attorney General's Apology For Mosque Visit](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/virginia-gop-mosque-apology_n_58d15af1e4b0be71dcf872d4?section=politics)** > > Though members of the party have visited mosques before, the GOP now seems to distrust any engagement with Muslims. ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33193 "2017-03-22T14:14:32Z")
Last year, Obama could not get a hearing for his Supreme Court nominee because apparently a president nominating a justice during his last year in office was too controversial. This year, we are proceeding full steam ahead with a Supreme Court nominee hearing, because there are no such concerns about a president who is under investigation for collaborating with Russia. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33194 "2017-03-22T14:37:07Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#): > > Last year, Obama could not get a hearing for his Supreme Court nominee because apparently a president nominating a justice during his last year in office was too controversial. > > This year, we are proceeding full steam ahead with a Supreme Court nominee hearing, because there are no such concerns about a president who is under investigation for collaborating with Russia. Who is also in his last year in office… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33195 "2017-03-22T15:14:02Z")
According to The New York Times’ Margot Sanger-Katz, using CBO figures, if you were to simply repeal Obamacare outright, there would be _one million_ more people covered than would be by the proposed Traumpcare replacement: [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/upshot/fewer-americans-would-be-insured-with-gop-plan-than-with-simple-repeal.html?\_r=0](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/upshot/fewer-americans-would-be-insured-with-gop-plan-than-with-simple-repeal.html?_r=0) > [@](#): > > The Republican bill would actually result in more people being uninsured than if Obamacare were simply repealed. Getting rid of the major coverage provisions and regulations of Obamacare would cost 23 million Americans their health insurance, according to another recent C.B.O. report. In other words, one million more Americans would have health insurance with a clean repeal than with the Republican replacement plan, according to C.B.O. estimates. > > … > > The C.B.O. estimated what would happen after a simple repeal when it considered a bill that Congress passed last year. (President Obama later vetoed that bill.) The bill left parts of Obamacare in place, so the 23 million estimate didn’t come with the kind of detailed analysis that accompanied last week’s score of the American Health Care Act. But the similarity of the two estimates highlights some of the difficulties of the current proposal, both for Democrats, who are strongly criticizing potential coverage losses, and for the repeal-or-die crowd, who hate the structure of this new bill. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33196 "2017-03-22T16:49:27Z")
See ? It just goes to show what the Republicans always tell you. Government is just super inefficient. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33197 "2017-03-22T17:03:25Z")
Which is why they want us to have government run by business people. Right now, they are producing the health care equivalent of New Coke. What could go wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33198 "2017-03-22T17:14:55Z")
[Trump warns House Republicans: Pass it or lose your jobs](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-warns-house-republicans-repeal-health-law-or-lose-your-seats/ar-BByytRo) > [@](#): > > But at a private meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol, the president also delivered a blunt warning that many of those present would lose their seats in next year’s midterm congressional elections if the effort failed. Does he not understand how politics work? [Gallup has his approval rating on the high 30s.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/03/20/trump-approval-rating-low/99409570/) You can’t push people around when your numbers are in the toilet. 538 has his approval higher, [but only at 42.9](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/). ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33199 "2017-03-22T17:28:34Z")
Trump doesn’t know how political capital works, and he also apparently doesn’t know how to manage his coalition. ACA is not a top tier issue for the white working class except for maybe a few provisions of it, like the cadillac tax and perhaps the coverage mandates that make it more expensive than it has to be. The Republican bill is not what they are looking for and if they pass it they’ll lose more seats than if they don’t. Democrats already proved how this works: they didn’t pass health care reform in 1993, they lost 54 seats. They did pass it in 2010, they lost 63. The Democrats’ failure to pass health care in 1993 didn’t lead to follow on effects in subsequent elections. The damage was limited to 1994. Whereas Democrats woes over ACA didn’t stop until Donald Trump was elected. Passing a bad bill will cost Republicans the House in 2018, the Presidency and Senate in 2020. Not passing a bill may allow Republicans to barely keep the House. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33200 "2017-03-22T17:48:54Z")
Old news that’s resurfaced recently: Whack job Trump advisor Roger Stone has a tattoo of Nixon on his back. I guess that was easier than always retaping the “kick me” sign. > **[Does Roger Stone Have a Tattoo of Richard Nixon on His Back?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/roger-stone-nixon-tattoo/)** > > A photograph seemingly shows American political consultant and conspiracy theory spreader Roger Stone with an unusual tattoo on his back. Stone is a loony, but props to him for being in such good shape at his age. Good triceps. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33201 "2017-03-22T17:49:59Z")
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