# 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:** 170
**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:** [August 17, 2011, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3381 "2011-08-17T09:34:17Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > You see, white people be buying buses like this, I think you mean like [this](http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/24/partridgebus06.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3382 "2011-08-17T13:00:50Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Quoted in [the New York Times](http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/romney-says-corporations-are-people-in-exchange-with-heckler/?hp): > > The notion that “Corporations are people” might be defensible – employees and some shareholders are human – yet still one hopes that this stupidity will come back to haunt the GOP frontrunner. [Corporate personhood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood). ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3383 "2011-08-17T14:32:39Z")
Yes, it was a minor gaffe and doesn’t really have much to do with her fitness for president, but after the John Wayne, John Wayne Gacy mix-up, I feel no need to cut her any slack. [Bachmann wishes happy birthday to Elvis on what was in fact the anniversary of his death.](http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/bachmanns-elvis-tribute-slightly-off/) ---
**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:** [August 22, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3384 "2011-08-22T21:25:47Z")
Republicans are backing an [increase in the payroll tax](http://news.yahoo.com/gop-may-ok-tax-increase-obama-hopes-block-124016578.html) . Under the definitions used by Republicans in the battle over the Bush Tax Cuts, letting a temporary tax cut expire is the same as a tax increase. But a temporary tax cut on the payroll tax for Social Security passed last year is set to expire, and President Obama is trying to get it extended to stimulate the economy. Suddenly, Republicans are concerned that extending that particular temporary tax cut will increase the deficit, a concern they have never had when the temporary tax cut affected the top end of the income ladder. Is it a coincidence that the payroll tax is capped at $107,000 and has a proportionally small impact on the very rich? There is no depth of duplicity Republicans won’t plumb in order to screw the little guy, while protecting the plutocrats. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3385 "2011-08-22T22:31:53Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Republicans are backing an [increase in the payroll tax](http://news.yahoo.com/gop-may-ok-tax-increase-obama-hopes-block-124016578.html) . > > Under the definitions used by Republicans in the battle over the Bush Tax Cuts, letting a temporary tax cut expire is the same as a tax increase. But a temporary tax cut on the payroll tax for Social Security passed last year is set to expire, and President Obama is trying to get it extended to stimulate the economy. > > Suddenly, Republicans are concerned that extending that particular temporary tax cut will increase the deficit, a concern they have never had when the temporary tax cut affected the top end of the income ladder. Is it a coincidence that the payroll tax is capped at $107,000 and has a proportionally small impact on the very rich? > > There is no depth of duplicity Republicans won’t plumb in order to screw the little guy, while protecting the plutocrats. Nah. If Obama’s fer it, whatever ‘it’ is, the Pubbies’re agin’ it. It’s as simple as that. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3386 "2011-08-23T03:07:54Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DtMV44yoXZ0/hqdefault.jpg "I'm against it!.wmv") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0) > [@](#): > > I don’t know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway, Whatever it is, I’m against it. - Marx. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3387 "2011-08-23T03:16:37Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0) > > - Marx. That is such a perfect song for the current Republican Congress. Groucho rocks. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3388 "2011-08-23T11:36:51Z")
I’m going to have that tune going through my head all day now. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 23, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3389 "2011-08-23T16:51:25Z")
[You could have this one instead, if you like.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3390 "2011-08-23T18:15:09Z")
Its a TRAP! ---
**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:** [August 23, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3391 "2011-08-23T21:50:01Z")
Rick Perry [compares the civil rights struggle to the fight to lower taxes](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/rick-perry-civil-rights_n_933420.html?ir=Black%20Voices): > [@](#): > > “Listen, America’s gone a long way from the standpoint of civil rights and thank God we have,” [said](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/08/22/301253/rick-perry-compares-civil-rights-movement-to-gop-fight-for-lower-corporate-taxes/) the Texas governor. “We’ve gone from a country that made great strides in issues of civil rights, I think we all can be proud of that. And as we go forward, America needs to be about freedom. It needs to be about freedom from overtaxation, freedom from over-litigation, freedom from over-regulation. And Americans, regardless of what their cultural or ethnic background is, they need to know that they can come to America and you got a chance to have any dream come true because the economic climate is gonna be improved.” ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3392 "2011-08-23T21:51:01Z")
Yes, because the rich not making quite as much is just as important an issue as _treating someone as a lesser human being because of their sexuality or skin color_. What an ass. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3393 "2011-08-23T22:44:00Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > What an ass. This is too much of an understatement. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3394 "2011-08-23T23:38:33Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Its a TRAP! Yeah, but it also leads to the video, “Scarlett Johansson falls out of her dress.” Groucho and boobs. The perfect combination that you don’t want to think about too much. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3395 "2011-08-24T00:12:32Z")
You have to say it like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H3gpL7BhAk). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3396 "2011-08-24T02:23:03Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Yeah, but it also leads to the video, “Scarlett Johansson falls out of her dress.” Groucho and boobs. The perfect combination that you don’t want to think about too much. Well, OK, then, but if it turns out to be a bunch of old guys honking on some wrinkled cock, I will track you down, ---
**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:** [August 24, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3397 "2011-08-24T04:23:24Z")
It’s the real thing, but it doesn’t really happen. But it looks like it will, which is nice. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3398 "2011-08-25T14:31:36Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > This dickhead just marginalized himself out of the race. What an asinine thing to say. Does he have no advisors? Some cynic you are! I have come to belive that there is no such a thing as a Republican saying something so stupid as to marginalize themselves…Idiocracy is here early… ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3399 "2011-08-26T14:48:16Z")
"While touring the damage in his district, Cantor surmised, “Obviously, the problem is that people in Virginia don’t have earthquake insurance.” As the Insurance Information Institute notes, “earthquakes are not covered under standard U.S. homeowners or business insurance policies, although supplemental coverage is usually available.” So, for Cantor, the problem here is that Virginians didn’t have the foresight to predict an exceedingly rare natural disaster and pay out of their own pocket in advance." [http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/25/304204/cantor-earthquake/](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/25/304204/cantor-earthquake/) ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3400 "2011-08-27T17:40:37Z")
[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/27/anti-gay-puetro-rican-senator-accused-of-posting-newd-pics-on-gay-social-app/](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/27/anti-gay-puetro-rican-senator-accused-of-posting-newd-pics-on-gay-social-app/) The list of gays masquerading as gay haters to get Republican financial support ,has a new member. It already is a very long list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=169) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=171)