# 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:** 1664
**Author:** ![CosmicManiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@CosmicManiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CosmicManiac)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33262 "2017-03-26T23:13:20Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Voters \*did \*have a say. What do you think the most recent presidential election did? > > Then they don’t now, either. There will be another election in less than four years. Maybe we should wait to see what the voters say then, hmm? Why or why not? Where does the Constitution, which Graham incidentally swore to uphold, say is the cutoff point? > > Being in the Pit does not relieve you of the responsibility to [get your facts straight](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/mar/17/context-biden-rule-supreme-court-nominations/). :rolleyes: Politifact is not a reputable fact-checking organization, and the New York Times story I cited makes it clear than then-Chairman Joe Biden of the Senate Judiciary Committee held up and blocked John Roberts’s nomination to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in the hopes that then-Governor Bill Clinton would be elected and be able to appoint a liberal to the seat Roberts was nominated to, as well as other liberals to other seats that Biden held up (Roberts wasn’t the only one). [Here is another story on Biden’s blockage of Roberts](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-biden-killed-john-robertss-nomination-in-92/2016/02/25/c17841be-dbdf-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html?utm_term=.89c8984d79b6). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33263 "2017-03-26T23:43:58Z")
So you’re doubling down, just like Trump whenever \*he \*gets caught out. :rolleyes: How about at least telling us what the Constitutional cutoff date is for getting nominees their hearings and votes? We’ve narrowed it down to sometime between 9 and 44 months before the next Presidential election, but I still don’t see anything more specific. Please elaborate. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33264 "2017-03-27T00:28:41Z")
> [@CosmicManiac](#): > > Politifact is not a reputable fact-checking organization, and the New York Times story I cited makes it clear than then-Chairman Joe Biden of the Senate Judiciary Committee held up and blocked John Roberts’s nomination to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in the hopes that then-Governor Bill Clinton would be elected and be able to appoint a liberal to the seat Roberts was nominated to, as well as other liberals to other seats that Biden held up (Roberts wasn’t the only one). [Here is another story on Biden’s blockage of Roberts](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-biden-killed-john-robertss-nomination-in-92/2016/02/25/c17841be-dbdf-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html?utm_term=.89c8984d79b6). The Politifact story deals with SCOTUS nominations, not the Court of Appeals. No wonder you discredit fact-checkers. You lie about 'em. Typical asshole Trumpy. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33265 "2017-03-27T01:40:27Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > We’ve narrowed it down to sometime between 9 and 44 months before the next Presidential election… So, if we’re in the last 6 months of this President’s career, should he get a vote on his candidate? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33266 "2017-03-27T02:03:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Lindsey Graham: > “If you think that only liberals can get their nominees and a conservative can’t, then you don’t understand America. And I don’t believe that the Constitution was written so that you get everything you want and I get nothing. That’s not the way the Constitution was written.” Typical Republican thinking; they have the Executive branch, both houses of congress, a majority of state governors and they’ve successfully prevented a Democratic president from appointed a Supreme Court Justice (in complete opposition of what he’s complainig about) … and he still complain that they have nothing and that the other side has everything. It’s like listening to a Christian bitch about persecution because someone said, “Happy Holidays,” to them. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33267 "2017-03-27T03:56:50Z")
SF Chronicles John Diaz’s [take](http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/diaz/article/Meals-on-Wheels-The-cruelest-cut-11010019.php) on Budget Director Mick (The Prick) Mulvaney’s March 16 justification for proposing budget cuts for “programs that don’t work”, which includes Meals On Wheels. ---
**Author:** ![CosmicManiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@CosmicManiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CosmicManiac)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33268 "2017-03-27T05:27:01Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The Politifact story deals with SCOTUS nominations, not the Court of Appeals. No wonder you discredit fact-checkers. You lie about 'em. > Typical asshole Trumpy. Fucking idiot. Can you even read? I never said John Roberts was nominated to the Supreme Court. I said, accurately, that Bush I nominated him to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1992, and Biden, who was then the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held up and blocked the nomination, refusing to even give Roberts a committee hearing on his nomination. In other words, Biden had a history of blocking judicial nominations (Roberts wasn’t the only one), yet bitched and moaned when Republicans blocked the judicial nomination of Merrick Garland because it was an election year and they wanted voters to decide—which was very similar to comments Biden made in 1992 urging Bush I not to nominate a Supreme Court justice in the throes of an election year campaign. I didn’t lie about the Politifact story, and Biden is still a hypocrite. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33269 "2017-03-27T08:11:56Z")
Page number 666 The number of the beast. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33270 "2017-03-27T08:14:18Z")
> [@digs](#): > > So, if we’re in the last 6 months of this President’s career, should he get a vote on his candidate? I like it. I think the Dems should use it. “We refuse to participate (or whatever) as this president is on his way out.” ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33271 "2017-03-27T09:17:25Z")
> [@CosmicManiac](#): > > You know John Roberts, the current conservative Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? In 1992, when Roberts was a Bush administration lawyer, George H.W. Bush nominated him for a seat on the Appeals Court. Then-Senator Joe Biden, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, [declined to give Mr. Roberts a hearing, in the hopes that Bill Clinton would be elected, and would be able to appoint liberal judges to the appeals courts.](http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/01/us/waiting-for-clinton-democrats-hold-up-court-confirmations.html) As we know, Clinton was elected, and his gambit paid off: Roberts’s nomination expired, and he returned to private law practice. That citation doesn’t say what you claim it says: "Although Mr. Biden has complained about the conservative direction of the courts, he said it was necessary to continue to process nominees for courts that are backed up because of the judicial vacancies. … “It appears that Mr. Biden and his fellow Democrats will be more willing to confirm nominees at the district court level, the trial courts where judges are largely bound by precedent and have little ideological leeway. It is those courts that typically have the greatest backlogs.” TLDR: Some Senate Democrats wanted to hold up Bush nominations but Biden wasn’t one of them. He prioritized nominees for lower courts aruging that that’s where the backlogs were, though the fact that those judges would be less able to make new law was likely also a strong motivation for the ordering. ---
**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 28, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33272 "2017-03-28T13:40:26Z")
This is truly amazing > [@](#): > > Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) signed a bill into law this weekend that requires doctors to tell women that medication abortions can be reversed midway through the process ― a claim that is unsupported by science. > … > > “Claims of medication abortion reversal are not supported by the body of scientific evidence,” the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said in a statement, “and this approach is not recommended in ACOG’s clinical guidance on medication abortion.” > The author of the bill, Rep. Kevin Stratton (R), said it helps women be more “educated” about their decision. “If you’re pro-choice, I would say that it helps you be educated in making the choice,” he said in an interview with the Deseret News. “If you’re pro-life, it gives an opportunity to look at the options if a decision is made to reverse course.” > Republicans in five states have passed or tried to pass “abortion reversal” bills, and a federal judge in Arizona blocked a similar law in 2015 after ACOG called it “tantamount to quackery.” The legislation is based on a single study of six women who had taken a dose of mifepristone and then tried to reverse their abortions. Four of the women in the study were able to continue their pregnancies. But mifepristone alone only works 30 to 50 percent of the time to end a pregnancy, so researchers say there is insufficient evidence to claim that it was the dose of progesterone that halted the abortions. > The Utah bill is the latest in a trend of state legislatures encouraging doctors to give women false or incomplete information about abortion. Last week, the Texas Senate approved a bill that would permit doctors to lie to women about fetal abnormalities in order to discourage them from choosing abortion. And Republican lawmakers in Texas and Kansas have passed legislation requiring doctors to tell women that abortion is linked to breast cancer ― another medically unsupported claim. > **[Utah Forces Doctors To Tell Women Some Abortions Are Reversible](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-bill-medication-abortions-reversible_n_58d96c6be4b00f68a5c96c25?ewa3cmsmscbx1or=)** > > They're probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33273 "2017-03-28T13:46:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Utah Forces Doctors To Tell Women Some Abortions Are Reversible** > This is truly amazing I have to wonder if this wouldn’t back fire on the idiots? If I’m a woman on the fence about getting an abortion (FTR, I’m neither) - and the doctor tells me I can change my mind, wouldn’t I be more likely to start the process? And then I guess they get free research as some percentage of the women ask for the reversing procedure, and we see how well it works. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33274 "2017-03-28T13:48:34Z")
Republicans would rather get their science from politicians than from scientists, and their medical information, too. Aren’t Republicans currently pretending to be against govt. mandates, however?? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33275 "2017-03-28T17:06:28Z")
\*\*Way \*\*missed the edit window here, but in honor of the previously mentioned page number: Happy 666th page Stupid Republican Idea Of The Day thread!! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MiY2JsGXrtM/hqdefault.jpg "BLACK SABBATH - "N.I.B." (Live Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiY2JsGXrtM) ---
**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 28, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33276 "2017-03-28T17:48:24Z")
[quote=“bobot, post:33275, topic:490897”] \*\*Way \*\*missed the edit window here, but in honor of the previously mentioned page number: Happy 666th page Stupid Republican Idea Of The Day thread!! [/QUOTE] Was expecting [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33277 "2017-03-28T19:14:38Z")
Stonehenge! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qAXzzHM8zLw/hqdefault.jpg "Spinal Tap - Stonehenge") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAXzzHM8zLw) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33278 "2017-03-28T20:02:17Z")
[quote=“bobot, post:33275, topic:490897”] \*\*Way \*\*missed the edit window here, but in honor of the previously mentioned page number: Happy 666th page Stupid Republican Idea Of The Day thread!! [/QUOTE] Huh? I’m on 333, my page views are set to 100 posts/page. It’s an option you can set. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33279 "2017-03-28T20:59:38Z")
So I don’t understand your “Huh?” then, it sounds like you understand what’s going on. ---
**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 28, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33280 "2017-03-28T21:20:19Z")
Kayleigh McEnany blames Barack Obama for running off and playing golf instead of handling the murder of journalist Richard Pearl. Richard Pearl was murdered in 2002, when Barack Obama was in the Illinois state legislature. > **[Trump Surrogate Botches Basic Facts While Ripping Obama](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-kayleigh-mcenany-golf_n_58d9fa65e4b0f805b3232c6c)** > > She was blasting Obama for playing golf. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33281 "2017-03-28T23:35:33Z")
House Republicans [vote overwhelmingly](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/28/the-house-just-voted-to-wipe-out-the-fccs-landmark-internet-privacy-protections/?utm_term=.d7ce980a9786) to allow internet providers collect and sell their customers’ Web browsing history, location information, health data and other personal details. Fuck’in pricks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1663) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1665)