# 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:** 172
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3421 "2011-09-06T17:13:04Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I don’t know where to post this, but I didn’t want to start a new thread for it. With the Texas wildfires as the biggest disaster in the nation right now, [there’s lots of calls for prayer](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/rick-perry-to-skip-south-carolina-forum-to-deal-with-texas-wildfires/)- for the firefighters, for rain, for the victims. > > If this is God’s response to Perry’s prayer event last month, maybe we should try a more pragmatic approach this time around. God can only be summoned when GOOD things happen to republicans, or when BAD things happen to democrats. Stop trying to say that God had anything to do with the good, God fearin’ conservatives of Texas!!! ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3422 "2011-09-06T17:34:42Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I don’t know where to post this, but I didn’t want to start a new thread for it. With the Texas wildfires as the biggest disaster in the nation right now, [there’s lots of calls for prayer](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/rick-perry-to-skip-south-carolina-forum-to-deal-with-texas-wildfires/)- for the firefighters, for rain, for the victims. > > If this is God’s response to Perry’s prayer event last month, maybe we should try a more pragmatic approach this time around. Is God punishing Texas, or is God testing Texas? That would be an annoying question to ask Rick Perry. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3423 "2011-09-06T17:39:56Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > Is God punishing Texas, or is God testing Texas? Mind if I steal this? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3424 "2011-09-06T17:44:46Z")
> **[Global Renewable Capacity Has Now Exceeded Nuclear - CleanTechnica](https://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/05/global-renewable-capacity-has-now-exceeded-nuclear/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2BIM-cleantechnica%2B%28CleanTechnica%29)** > > The world has now breached a tipping point of some significance. According to Phyllis Cuttino, Director of the Clean Energy Program at The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Michael Liebreich, CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the worldwide installed... Sure renewable energy just can not impact the total needs of the planet, so sayeth the Repubs. But it is not true. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3425 "2011-09-06T18:25:11Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Mind if I steal this? Be my guest. I hope it becomes a national cliche. Just be sure to cite your’s truly when the _Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations_ comes knocking on your door. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3426 "2011-09-06T21:02:01Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > Be my guest. I hope it becomes a national cliche. Just be sure to cite your’s truly when the _Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations_ comes knocking on your door. 😉 Could I trouble you for a cite for Perry’s original statement? ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3427 "2011-09-06T23:09:16Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Could I trouble you for a cite for Perry’s original statement? Here’s the original [proclamation](http://governor.state.tx.us/news/proclamation/16038/). Notably, the proclamation doesn’t address the cause of drought. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3428 "2011-09-07T05:52:31Z")
Mitt Romney’s plan for the economy? [Cut taxes](http://news.yahoo.com/romney-jobs-plan-cut-taxes-slap-china-drill-201111301.html)! This time it’ll work for sure! ---
**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:** [September 7, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3429 "2011-09-07T05:56:39Z")
What the fuck does the estate tax have to do with job creation, you lying sack of shit (Romney)? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3430 "2011-09-07T06:04:51Z")
Zombie job creators. You can’t take it with you? Well, then, they refuse to go. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2011, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3431 "2011-09-07T06:07:29Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > What the fuck does the estate tax have to do with job creation, you lying sack of shit (Romney)? Because those noble public servants who inherit $100 million will invest it in JobCo, Products for Consumers[sup]TM[/sup]. (Daddy just had it buried in a coffee can in the backyard.) Would you rather the money went to someone who just leeches off society, like a public school teacher? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3432 "2011-09-07T06:55:42Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Actually, she has it on very good authority that the sun uses very little in the way of petroleum and natural gas to meet its energy needs. By opposing solar power, she’s just trying to make sure that we rely first on domestic sources of energy. > > Besides, how do we know who is supplying the sun with all that hydrogen? For all we know, it could be Middle Eastern terror supporters, or the ChiComs! Could anything be more foreign than the sun? I say build a fence on our upsies border! ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3433 "2011-09-07T07:57:50Z")
I can see the sun from my house!\* \*Okay, Tina Fey paraphrased this, not Sarah Palin. But it’s funny, I tells yeh! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3434 "2011-09-07T08:03:14Z")
As you know, my state borders the sun, so the governor has a lot of work tracking its movements and making sure it’s not causing any trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3435 "2011-09-07T11:45:12Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > I can see the sun from my house!\* > > \*Okay, Tina Fey paraphrased this, not Sarah Palin. But it’s funny, I tells yeh! Fine, you want something that Tina Fey didn’t make up? I’m a an expert on theronuclear physics because I can see the sun ten to fourteen hours a day. I consume food created by it. I’m a expert on nuculear stuff! -Joe ---
**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:** [September 7, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3436 "2011-09-07T17:34:19Z")
While Texas is burning down, Perry is blaming slow Federal response for assistance. At the same time his budget is cutting $34 million from the firefighter’s budget… > **[Wonkette | Rebecca Schoenkopf | Substack](https://www.wonkette.com)** > > 10,000+ subscribers. Wonkette is filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH! Click to read Wonkette, a Substack publication. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3437 "2011-09-08T14:54:29Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > While Texas is burning down, Perry is blaming slow Federal response for assistance. > At the same time his budget is cutting $34 million from the firefighter’s budget… > > [Rick Perry Remembers He Hadn't Yet Blamed Feds For Texas Wildfires](http://wonkette.com/452618/rick-perry-remembers-he-hadnt-yet-blamed-feds-for-texas-wildfires#more-452618) Look, the gummint should stay out of peoples’ lives. Unless those people need something that they don’t want to pay for themselves. -Joe ---
**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:** [September 8, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3438 "2011-09-08T15:09:13Z")
It gets better: not only is he complaining while slicing his budget, but someone in his office came out and said something about it… > [@](#): > > But a spokesperson in Perry’s office confirmed that of the roughly 9,000 reported wildfires this season, the state has only applied for 25 fire management grants through FEMA. And every request has been awarded to the state, the Perry representative said. > > A FEMA spokesperson confirmed that the agency awarded Texas 25 “FMAGS” this fire season. The representative couldn’t put a dollar amount on the how much the grants were for. > **[FEMA Defends No More Help Over Texas Wildfires](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/perry-white-house-denies-disaster-status-for-wildfires/2089735/)** > > Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday night that the White House rejected his request for a disaster declaration, but FEMA says it has already sent assistance. “Boo hoo the government is refusing us aid!” “But we gave you everything you asked for!” “Boo hoo the government isn’t doing its job!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3439 "2011-09-08T15:10:30Z")
God Hates FMAGS! ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3440 "2011-09-08T15:19:13Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Look, the gummint should stay out of peoples’ lives. > > Unless those people need something that they don’t want to pay for themselves. > > -Joe Of course, it’s only fair that if FEMA is going to come to Texas’ aid, they should first find the money in the budget in some other government program so as not to add to the federal government’s deficit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=171) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=173)