# 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:** 1746
**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:** [August 26, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34902 "2017-08-26T02:23:37Z")
Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are asking for federal funds ahead of Hurricane Harvey, even though they voted against funds for Superstorm Sandy. > **[Cruz, Cornyn back Texas gov’s request for disaster declaration](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/348015-cruz-cornyn-back-texas-governors-request-for-disaster-declaration/)** > > Republican Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz pressed President Trump in a letter on Friday to grant Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) request for a major disaster declaration for the state … ---
**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:** [August 26, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34903 "2017-08-26T03:04:56Z")
How dare they betray their principles like that? Surely the churches can hold a bake sale to cover the cost of aid in case the coast floods. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34904 "2017-08-26T20:53:27Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > How dare they betray their principles like that? Surely the churches can hold a bake sale to cover the cost of aid in case the coast floods. Yes, this is surely a job for the _private_ sector, and private charity. This government overreach must stop! [/end sarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34905 "2017-08-26T22:46:16Z")
While Bannon may not have joined the campaign until later, their prior history is, well, prior. > **[Trump downplays 5-year Bannon relationship | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/12/politics/steve-bannon-donald-trump-relationship/index.html)** > > With Steve Bannon's place in his inner circle increasingly insecure, President Donald Trump is casting his chief strategist as a belated addition to a campaign team that was already on a warpath to the White House. No temporal gymnastics required. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34906 "2017-08-26T23:01:30Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Well, it seems that the Civil War specialist in the History Departments at Gettysburg College is a guy named [Peter S. Carmichael](http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/history/faculty/employee_detail.dot?empId=05712978720013342&pageTitle=Peter+S.+Carmichael). Not sure if this guy is Gingrich’s friend, and i can find no evidence that Carmichael has made any comments about the left’s response to Trump’s election. 😕 Not to be pushy or anything, but what is wrong with the [identification of Gingrich’s historian “friend” and his (alleged) remarks on Trump’s inauguration](http://www.gingrichproductions.com/2017/01/understanding-trump-and-trumpism-part-5-after-the-inaugural-2/) that **The Devil’s Grandmother** and I worked out in posts 34867 and [34869](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20435760&postcount=34869) of this thread? ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34907 "2017-08-27T00:07:00Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Going to take a moment to underscore a bit of good news. Eric Prince, America’s answer to Ernst Stavro Blofeld, came up with a brilliant plan for Afghanistan. Give him ten billion dollars a year and he will privatize the war with his team of crack mercenaries…excuse, security consultants…and they will take over the effort. > > [Erik Prince's Plan to Privatize the War in Afghanistan - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/afghanistan-camp-david/537324/) > > (link included only because somebody who did not already know this would probably think I am making this up. I am not making this up!) > > This plan has been rejected. Rejoice, children, we have finally found the Outer Limit, the thing that is too crazy for Trump! Now we can calibrate, now we have an actual line that is too fucking batshit! > > (Either that, or Chuck Norris was too busy…) If Prince shows Twitler how he can make big bucks taking Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, Twitler might change his mind. His limits are extremely loose, especially when it comes to feathering his own nest. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34908 "2017-08-27T03:41:35Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > If Prince shows Twitler how he can make big bucks taking Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, Twitler might change his mind. His limits are extremely loose, especially when it comes to feathering his own nest. We’re just lucky Trump isn’t a student of history, or he might read up on Cheney and Haliburton. ---
**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 29, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34909 "2017-08-29T02:36:57Z")
“Now is not the right time to talk about my voting against funding for relief for Hurricane Sandy.” I hope the right day does come, and your feet roast as they are held to the fire. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34910 "2017-08-29T12:29:04Z")
Has anyone asked him what would be a good time? ---
**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 29, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34911 "2017-08-29T13:18:24Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Has anyone asked him what would be a good time? We could pencil him in for next Tuesday. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34912 "2017-08-29T13:22:16Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Has anyone asked him what would be a good time? Any time and all the time is a good time. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34913 "2017-08-29T19:04:24Z")
Ann Coulter: ‘I don’t believe Hurricane Harvey is God’s punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is more credible than “climate change.”’ > > > POLITICO Magazine @POLITICOMag ---
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34914 "2017-08-29T19:17:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ann Coulter: ‘I don’t believe Hurricane Harvey is God’s punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is more credible than “climate change.”’ > [x.com](https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/902373016818126849) And God is just getting around to it now? Dude must be _busy._ ---
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34915 "2017-08-29T19:27:43Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And God is just getting around to it now? Dude must be _busy._ I would have thought Harvey was Gods punishment for Texas voting for Trump, but that’s just me. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34916 "2017-08-29T19:59:13Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I would have thought Harvey was Gods punishment for Texas voting for Trump, but that’s just me. [This map](http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/countymaprb1024.png) seems to indicate that Houston did not support the orange shit-gibbon, but [a little more shading](http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/countymappurple1024.png) makes that less evident. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34917 "2017-08-30T04:39:04Z")
I’m seeing reports, unfortunately not from any reliable sources, that Trump fans are floating all over the Internet asking, “Where was Obama during Katrina? Oh, right, golfing.” As if Obama was President during Katrina. And there is one report of a Trump fan holding up a sign asking “Where was Michelle Obama three days after Katrina? Shopping.” Including a picture of … Condoleezza Rice. [https://twitter.com/AnnieKleynjans/status/902282826158006273](https://twitter.com/AnnieKleynjans/status/902282826158006273) [https://twitter.com/GoBlue1131/status/902109305167589377](https://twitter.com/GoBlue1131/status/902109305167589377) [https://twitter.com/VermillionShawn/status/902271277477584896](https://twitter.com/VermillionShawn/status/902271277477584896) > **[GroopSpeak.com is for sale | HugeDomains](https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=groopspeak.com)** > > Shop a wide selection of domains at HugeDomains.com. Find the right domain name today. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34918 "2017-08-30T04:42:44Z")
Republican Georgia legislator suggests Democratic legislator might “go missing” if she tries to take down a Confederate statue. [http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/08/29/georgia-republican-warns-democrat-she-could-go-missing-over-criticism-of-civil-war-monuments/](http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/08/29/georgia-republican-warns-democrat-she-could-go-missing-over-criticism-of-civil-war-monuments/) ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34919 "2017-08-30T05:01:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m seeing reports, unfortunately not from any reliable sources, that Trump fans are floating all over the Internet asking, “Where was Obama during Katrina? Oh, right, golfing.” As if Obama was President during Katrina. And there is one report of a Trump fan holding up a sign asking “Where was Michelle Obama three days after Katrina? Shopping.” Including a picture of … Condoleezza Rice. > [x.com](https://twitter.com/AnnieKleynjans/status/902282826158006273) > [x.com](https://twitter.com/GoBlue1131/status/902109305167589377) > [x.com](https://twitter.com/VermillionShawn/status/902271277477584896) > > [http://news.groopspeak.com/trump-fan-gets-obliterated-for-post-asking-where-michelle-obama-was-after-hurricane-katrina/](http://news.groopspeak.com/trump-fan-gets-obliterated-for-post-asking-where-michelle-obama-was-after-hurricane-katrina/) Don’t forget that Katrina Pierson claimed (on CNN!) that Obama and H. Clinton changed the rules of engagement in Iraq resulting in Captain Khan’s death. In 2004. ---
**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 30, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34920 "2017-08-30T05:04:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ann Coulter: ‘I don’t believe Hurricane Harvey is God’s punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is more credible than “climate change.”’ > [x.com](https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/902373016818126849) What is His punishment for allowing the likes of Ann Coulter a scintilla of attention, I wonder? Probably a steady diet of Ann Coulter’s “writing”… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34921 "2017-08-30T06:15:32Z")
Do I even need to mention Trump’s [tweets](https://www.popsugar.com/news/Donald-Trump-Old-Tweet-About-Obama-Hurricane-Sandy-43951502) about Obama and Hurricane Sandy? > [@Dolt 45](#): > > Not only giving out money, but Obama will be seen today standing in water and rain like he is a real President — don’t fall for it. > [@Captain Hairdo](#): > > Obama is now standing in a puddle acting like a President–give me a break. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1745) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1747)