# 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:** 1674
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33462 "2017-04-12T06:06:59Z")
Bill O’Reilly [taking a vacation from Fox News](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-bill-oreilly-vacation-20170411-story.html) amid sponsor backlash. The little prick claims, "Around this time of year, “I grab some vacation, because it’s spring and Easter time…” Any thought regarding what piece of human excrement will fill his time slot? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33463 "2017-04-12T06:15:09Z")
I hope he finds the time to peruse the warmth and wisdom directed his way in the Pit thread I have launched in glee and gloating. And the horse upon in which you rode, you venomous rectum. Everybody’s welcome, of course. BYOD. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33464 "2017-04-12T06:33:13Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Any thought regarding what piece of human excrement will fill his time slot? I’m sure a lot of people have guest hosted the O’Reilly Factor over the years, but one that I can recall is Andrew Napolitano. This idea is humorous to me because Judge Napolitano is fresh of his own suspension. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33465 "2017-04-12T09:32:38Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Bill O’Reilly [taking a vacation from Fox News](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-bill-oreilly-vacation-20170411-story.html) amid sponsor backlash. On the bright side, he’s picked up [one new advertiser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDRvTipbeqw). ---
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33466 "2017-04-12T12:03:19Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Bill O’Reilly [taking a vacation from Fox News](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-bill-oreilly-vacation-20170411-story.html) amid sponsor backlash. The little prick claims, "Around this time of year, “I grab some vacation, because it’s spring and Easter time…” > > Any thought regarding what piece of human excrement will fill his time slot? Maybe we can look forward to his new book, **Killing My Job**. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33467 "2017-04-12T14:29:51Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [QUOTE=Smapti] > > Sean Spicer: Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons against “innocent people”, just the people in “the Holocaust Centers”. So, the Jews weren’t innocent is what he is saying. Riiiiiight. And Trump and his cronies aren’t antisemites. [/QUOTE] That’s not what he meant at all. He meant that the Jews weren’t really German. (To be fair - there were a lot of Polish Jews.) or Herding people into gas chambers doesn’t count as a “Chemical Attack”. or The Holocaust didn’t really happen. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33468 "2017-04-12T16:58:31Z")
Hayseeds narrowly [elect Republican](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/us/politics/as-a-house-race-tightens-in-kansas-republicans-see-a-possible-warning-sign.html) after major backing from syphilitic donkey dicks. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33469 "2017-04-12T18:05:55Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > As Christians, we are taught to obey the law. There is nothing unkind or unjust about asking people to obey the law… > > > > What took place in the civil rights era was a series of unlawful actions against lawful residents. It was a shameful chapter in our state’s history. The immigration issue of today is entirely different. The government is not persecuting people. > > Clicking around to learn about illegal immigration I [ended up at this page](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-alabama-idUSBRE84T16P20120530): Bentley [resigned this week](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/us/alabama-governor-robert-bentley-sex-scandal.html) after it was revealed that he was fucking one his staffers and that he was being charged with misusing state funds. Ironic, no? ---
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33470 "2017-04-12T19:00:40Z")
Congressman Markwayne Mullin is refusing to hold town hall meetings due to security reasons, because he doesn’t want attendees to carry the red and green papers which they hold up to show their approval or disapproval of his comments. > **[Oklahoma GOP Rep. claims he canceled town hall for safety -- but that's not...](https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/oklahoma-gop-rep-claims-he-canceled-town-hall-for-safety-but-thats-not-what-the-venue-told-raw-story/)** > > Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) is afraid of protesters attending his town hall meeting, so he canceled it, claiming he had "safety concerns." "Over the past few weeks, we have seen an escalation of protesters at congressional town halls across the... ---
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33471 "2017-04-12T19:43:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > The bill also accuses the highest court of violating “the decree of Almighty God that “a man shall leave his father and his mother and is united to his wife, and they shall become one flesh (Genesis 2:24, ESV).” > [@Smapti](#): > > Good luck getting that one past the Lemon test. By that logic, the High Court has to get me a wife. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33472 "2017-04-12T19:52:42Z")
“Hello, Ms Coulter? Ms Ann Coulter? Good, this is the High Court calling, and, _congratulations_!..” ---
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33473 "2017-04-12T20:28:43Z")
North Carolina’s Speaker of the House, who is a Republican, says the gay marriage ban law isn’t going anywhere. > **[House speaker: Gay marriage ban bill going nowhere](https://www.wral.com/gay-marriage-ban-filed-in-nc-house-/16639157/)** > > House Speaker Tim Moore said Wednesday that a bill filed Tuesday that would outlaw same-sex marriage in North Carolina and refuse to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states was effectively dead. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33474 "2017-04-12T22:13:35Z")
Principal sponsor of the North Carolina SSM ban reinstatement bill calls Lincoln a tyrant [on the order of Hitler](http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article144216324.html). I am not exaggerating. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33475 "2017-04-12T22:19:26Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Principal sponsor of the North Carolina SSM ban reinstatement bill calls Lincoln a tyrant [on the order of Hitler](http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article144216324.html). I am not exaggerating. > [@NC Rep Larry Pittman](#): > > And if Hitler had won, should the world just get over it? Lincoln was the same sort (of) tyrant, and personally responsible for the deaths of over 800,000 Americans in a war that was unnecessary and unconstitutional. :eek: Lincoln was _personally responsible_ for the Civil War? That’s an uncommon take on history. Anyway, as Sean Spicer would be quick to point out, neither Lincoln nor Hitler used poison gas on his own people. So it’s not all bad news. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33476 "2017-04-12T23:00:24Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Principal sponsor of the North Carolina SSM ban reinstatement bill calls Lincoln a tyrant [on the order of Hitler](http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article144216324.html). I am not exaggerating. Are we sure that article isn’t satire? > [@](#): > > Pittman is the pastor of Ridgecrest Presbyterian Church in Stanly County and has served in the House since 2013. > > N.C. Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Goodwin criticized the Facebook comment. He’s a pastor? And Godwin and Goodwin in the same story? It’s got to be a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33477 "2017-04-12T23:58:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Are we sure that article isn’t satire? Very sure. > [@](#): > > He’s a pastor? And Godwin and Goodwin in the same story? It’s got to be a joke. Like salmonella poisoning it’s a joke. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33478 "2017-04-13T00:55:29Z")
If it is, its an example of tighty righty humor. See the problem? ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33479 "2017-04-13T01:14:40Z")
Only one thing can fix this. We’ll have to cut taxes. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33480 "2017-04-13T01:29:04Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Anyway, as Sean Spicer would be quick to point out, neither Lincoln nor Hitler used poison gas on his own people. So it’s not all bad news. Not to disrespect our greatest president, but you wouldn’t want to be in a small closed room with Lincoln if he’d ordered the burritos for lunch. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33481 "2017-04-13T04:25:17Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I hope he finds the time to peruse the warmth and wisdom directed his way in the Pit thread I have launched in glee and gloating. And the horse upon in which you rode, you venomous rectum. > > Everybody’s welcome, of course. BYOD. Bring Your Own Disdain? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1673) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1675)