# 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:** 1690
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33782 "2017-05-09T23:32:46Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > I don’t know if this is stupid or just lashing out wildly, but Trump has just fired[James Comey](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/james-comey-terminated-fbi-director) Nothing stupid about firing him; he should have been fired months ago. However, the timing is suspect, and I expect that his replacement will live up to the stupid standards of Trump’s other appointments. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33783 "2017-05-09T23:43:55Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I don’t wonder at all. Trump is pathological thin-skinned and never forgets even the smallest slight. Comey’s appearance yesterday just triggered that memory and brought it all back so he got his revenge . > > And if he was a smart businessman he would know that you give as little information in a resignation letter as possible, you just talk about how you feel the employees perspectives are not conducive to the company’s core mission or some equivalent doublespeak,wish them well in their future endeavors and leave it at that. > > No, but Old Dickory just HAS to make sure everyone gets all the details. It’s gonna be a long 4 years. This was also Trump passing the buck to Sessions. And Sessions passing it to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33784 "2017-05-09T23:52:30Z")
And its the old triple-play, Trump to Sessions to Rosenstein! Three runs scored… ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33785 "2017-05-10T01:13:41Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > No, but Old Dickory just HAS to make sure everyone gets all the details. It’s gonna be a long 4 years. “Old Dickory”…snerk. Good one. I think it’s gonna be a long 2 years. Every Republican congresscritter will have to face their electorate and answer for both their votes on health care and their non-votes on a special prosecutor. Both houses will likely go Democratic in 2018. And impeachment hearings will begin in January 2019. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33786 "2017-05-10T01:49:45Z")
I’m not seeing conspiracy here; mostly dumb covering up of half-truths and overt mistakes: blah blah blah Setting the stage: Hillary has private email server - not illegal or against policy at the time - in retrospect, not the best idea. Our ex-director: Thousands of classified emails - unsecure - well it was a few but the idiots at the transmitting end failed to make classification. New revelations about thousands of emails on a new computer (wienerpuss) - well actually just copies and weren’t really there - and nevermind, forget I said anything and try to focus on the election NEXT WEEK. Investigation of Trump - well yes, not really, just some contacts we came across, wiretapping - nope. Well unless maybe in the context of contact from the ruskies. Wait, no, definitely. What did I testify to last time? Seriously, this guy is/was the HEAD OF THE FBI? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33787 "2017-05-10T01:57:39Z")
The Prime Directive of life is to make more life. The Prime Directive of an incumbent Congressgit is to remain an incumbent. If loyalty to Trump is a threat to that central fact…well, he’s not even _really_ a Republican, is he? Reasonable. Trouble is, reason doesn’t work well in a batshit typhoon. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33788 "2017-05-11T07:20:45Z")
[Here’s a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLHrPik1Aog) of Rep. Rod Blum having a temper tantrum and walking out of an interview. I like how some random local reporter is better than most of the national media. He actually asked some follow up questions and the guy folded like a lawn chair. I also like the kid in the back at 0:10 saying “money.” ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33789 "2017-05-11T11:46:45Z")
Man, that guy was a dick right from the first question. The reporter asked a completely innocuous question to get things going, and the Rep was already acting like he was too good for those kinds of questions. The final question was a killer. The reporter laid a nice little trap for the Rep then very calmly and professionally lowered the fucking boom. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33790 "2017-05-11T12:54:01Z")
I especially like how he instilled in all those props … I mean children … the proper values of storming off in a huff when you don’t get your way. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33791 "2017-05-11T14:00:06Z")
The Trump administration was tricked into letting a [TASS photographer](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-to-meet-russian-foreign-minister-at-the-white-house-as-moscows-alleged-election-interference-is-back-in-spotlight/2017/05/10/c6717e4c-34f3-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.c08fd79af631)into yesterdays meeting with the Russians. A meeting that was closed to the American press. I swear, these people could fuck up a wet dream. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33792 "2017-05-11T14:22:17Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > “Old Dickory”…snerk. Good one. > > I think it’s gonna be a long 2 years. Every Republican congresscritter will have to face their electorate and answer for both their votes on health care and their non-votes on a special prosecutor. Both houses will likely go Democratic in 2018. > > And impeachment hearings will begin in January 2019. Yeah, I really want “Old Dickory” to catch on. Partly because I’m pretty sure that Trump didn’t know Andrew Jackson from Michael Jackson six months ago ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33793 "2017-05-11T14:23:39Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Yeah, I really want “Old Dickory” to catch on. Partly because I’m pretty sure that Trump didn’t know Andrew Jackson from Michael Jackson six months ago And he’s probably forgotten again by now. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33794 "2017-05-11T14:55:25Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > The Trump administration was tricked into letting a [TASS photographer](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-to-meet-russian-foreign-minister-at-the-white-house-as-moscows-alleged-election-interference-is-back-in-spotlight/2017/05/10/c6717e4c-34f3-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.c08fd79af631)into yesterdays meeting with the Russians. ‘Tricked’…yes. Not knowingly and willingly. ‘Tricked’. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33795 "2017-05-11T15:40:32Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Nothing stupid about firing him; he should have been fired months ago. However, the timing is suspect, and I expect that his replacement will live up to the stupid standards of Trump’s other appointments. AP Radio News has been reporting that Comey had just asked for more resources for investigating allegations of Russian involvement in the campaign. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33796 "2017-05-11T16:15:09Z")
Reuters reports that Trump was pissed that Comey refused to give a preview of his latest testimony. “Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had wanted a heads-up from Comey about what he would say at a May 3 hearing about his handling of an investigation into former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. When Comey refused, Trump and his aides considered that an act of insubordination and it was one of the catalysts to Trump’s decision this week to fire the FBI director, the officials said.” > **[Comey infuriated Trump with refusal to preview Senate testimony: aides](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-comey-decision-idUSKBN1862WP)** > > (This story corrects reference to Russian ambassador in paragraph 10.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33797 "2017-05-11T17:02:04Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > AP Radio News has been reporting that Comey had just asked for more resources for investigating allegations of Russian involvement in the campaign. This is a rather interesting point, interesting for not being resolved. The theme that Comey had asked for further resources in his investigation is (last I checked) being firmly denied by the Justice Dept. And this is especially interesting because of the time passing without resolution. Add to that irresolution, the rather stilted and curious language in Il Douche’s letter, wherein he pointedly references three separate occasions that Comey assured him that he was not under investigation. > [@](#): > > …While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation… Obviously, no one is going to ask for further resource to continue an investigation that does not actually exist. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33798 "2017-05-12T20:42:04Z")
Wisconsin legislators want to remove the requirement that children 16-17 get work permits and permission from their parents before they can work. > **[Senate OKs Bill Eliminating Child Labor Permits](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2017-05-10/senate-to-vote-on-eliminating-child-labor-permits)** > > The state Senate has approved a bill that would eliminate requirements that 16- and 17-year-olds get parental permission to work. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33799 "2017-05-12T20:59:58Z")
Oklahoma making another bid for the top spot: Scare headline: You Won’t Find a More Horrifying Anti-Immigrant Proposal Than What This Republican Came Up With "A Republican lawmaker in Oklahoma believes he can save his state an estimated $60 million dollars in one fell swoop by identifying tens of thousands of non-English speaking students, and handing them over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency “to see if they truly are citizens.” … The shocking proposal was introduced by State Representative Mike Ritze (R-80) during an interview with local news channel KWTV. He claimed there were an estimated 82,000 non-English speaking students in the state, and that Oklahoma should “identify them and then turn them over to ICE to see if they truly are citizens.” “Do we really have to educate non-citizens?” Ritze added, seemingly unaware that, in 1982, the Supreme Court ruled states must do exactly that. Ritze also seemed unaware that the state’s Department of Education estimates there are only 50,000 English Language Learners in Oklahoma—and that many of them, the Associated Press notes, are likely citizens. In some instances of relative sanity - a few other derplahoman Republicans are denying they ever heard of/met this guy. More astounding reading at: [http://fusion.kinja.com/you-wont-find-a-more-horrifying-anti-immigrant-proposal-1795158314](http://fusion.kinja.com/you-wont-find-a-more-horrifying-anti-immigrant-proposal-1795158314) ---
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33800 "2017-05-12T22:01:01Z")
State Rep. Mike “Hayseed” Ritze of Broken Arrow OK. said Wednesday that the newly created Republican Platform Caucus believes the state could save $60 million if it would identify what the caucus believes is 82,000 non-English-speaking students “[and then turn them over to ICE."](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state/broken-arrow-lawmaker-s-idea-to-target-non-english-speaking/article_0ebe35f6-634c-534f-b4a2-6febc6796eea.html) ---
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33801 "2017-05-12T22:28:24Z")
“_I caught this young man not speaking English. Check his citizenship_” “ **What is your mother-tongue, son?** ” “Cree” (there are a _lot_ of NAs in Oklahoma) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1689) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1691)