# 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:** 1793
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35842 "2017-12-01T01:43:02Z")
I thought that you only couldn’t call other posters that and that calling someone like Ryan that would be OK. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35843 "2017-12-01T02:20:13Z")
Fail to be a Ryanwit. Let us have our fun. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35844 "2017-12-01T02:46:26Z")
If the Republicans have their way, we’ll all be Ryaned in the ass and covered with santorum. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35845 "2017-12-01T02:47:24Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > If the Republicans have their way, we’ll all be Ryaned in the ass and covered with santorum. Ryaned in the Cruz? ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35846 "2017-12-01T02:48:58Z")
In the t-rump ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35847 "2017-12-01T02:59:44Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > I thought that you only couldn’t call other posters that and that calling someone like Ryan that would be OK. To be fair, Ryan _is_ a Ryanryaner. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35848 "2017-12-01T03:28:36Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Oh, Ryan off. Reeported. > [@snfaulkner](#): > > I’ll Ryan you! _shakes fist_ Reported. > [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Yeah, you Ryan me, Baby. Ryan me _good_. Reported. > [@Tangent](#): > > If the Republicans have their way, we’ll all be Ryaned in the ass and covered with santorum. Reported. > [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Ryaned in the Cruz? Reported. > [@eschereal](#): > > In the t-rump reportedreportedreported. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35849 "2017-12-01T03:31:05Z")
You’re all just a bunch of Ryanheads. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35850 "2017-12-01T03:59:14Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I’m going to get a tax cut here, so why should I be so upset about this? Because the economy of the country you live in will collapse. Unless you are rich enough to retire to Belize; then it’s because you are a decent person. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35851 "2017-12-01T04:06:29Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I’m going to get a tax cut here, so why should I be so upset about this? Depends on whether you care about people other than yourself. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35852 "2017-12-01T04:12:04Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > …or cuts to spending on entitlement programs (which is obviously the route they will take). This is a feature, and not a bug, for the Republicans. They know, and have known for decades, that if you simply come out and say that you’re going to slash and burn social welfare programs and broad-based government subsidies that benefit a significant portion of the population, you will be nuked out of political existence in short order. Dwight Eisenhower recognized that New Deal programs and postwar government expansion were broadly popular among the American people and he commented at one stage during his presidency: > [@](#): > > “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.” But that was during the broad liberal consensus of the postwar era, before the Southern Strategy and the rise of the fundamentalist right and its shaky but important alliance with the libertarian right. They get around that now by selling everything as a tax cut. When the massive tax cuts blow the budget to smithereens, and there’s no money left for anything once the rich have plundered the economy, then they can just throw their hands up and say “Hey, we’re really sorry, but we simply don’t have the money to keep funding those extraneous things like Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, Pell grants, and all those other pesky liberal programs.” They’re definitely not going to be cutting back on defense spending. And then all the people who cheered at the extra few hundred bucks they got in 2019 have to find tens of thousands of dollars extra in 2025 or 2040 to pay for health insurance, or to buy food without government help, or to send their kids to college, or fix the car that was broken by the potholes of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35853 "2017-12-01T14:03:06Z")
Looks like they’re determined to live in a parallel universe and pass the thing. I’m guessing their mega-donors told them in no uncertain terms, either they pass tax cuts for the rich or they’re not getting a dime of support. This might be a way to fend off Bannon, too. They can go around next year claiming to have given the job creators a lot of Christmas money. If they can’t pass this bill then they really are in trouble next year. But they’ll probably pass it, regardless of what it does to the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35854 "2017-12-01T14:04:10Z")
The donors? They’re mad as hell, and not going to give it any more! ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35855 "2017-12-01T20:22:31Z")
Congressman Blake Farenthold used $84,000 of government money to pay off a sexual harassment allegation > **[Lawmaker behind secret $84K sexual harassment settlement unmasked](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/01/blake-farenthold-taxpayer-funds-sexual-harassment-274458)** > > Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) used taxpayer funds to end a dispute with his communications director in 2014. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35856 "2017-12-01T20:47:32Z")
**Republican** Congressman Blake Farenthold. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35857 "2017-12-01T23:49:27Z")
Now that is how I want my taxes used. At least he will vote for the tax bill and my taxes will not be wasted on layabouts, slut-baby-factories and terrist-training-mosques. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35858 "2017-12-02T00:38:15Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > And then all the people who cheered at the extra few hundred bucks they got in 2019 have to find tens of thousands of dollars extra in 2025 or 2040 to pay for health insurance, or to buy food without government help, or to send their kids to college, or fix the car that was broken by the potholes of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. But they will take solace in blaming the culprits for their bad circumstances; Obama and Hillary. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35859 "2017-12-02T22:49:06Z")
Trey Gowdy used $150,000 of taxpayer money to settle a wrongful termination suit from a former staffer whom he fired for refusing to spend his time digging up dirt on Hillary. > **[Gowdy, Benghazi panel settled wrongful firing suit with $150,000 in public funds](https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gowdy-benghazi-panel-settled-wrongful-firing-suit-with-150000-in-public-funds/2017/12/01/d7c49dac-d6db-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html)** > > A former investigator alleged he was fired in part because he refused to focus his work on Hillary Clinton. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35860 "2017-12-03T20:09:11Z")
Mitch McConnell is backtracking on his call for Roy Moore to drop out. > **[Mitch McConnell backtracks three weeks after saying Roy Moore should drop...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-backtracks-three-weeks-151326428.html)** > > Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has pivoted stances on Roy Moore, three weeks after saying he believed accusations that Roy pursued teenage girls. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35861 "2017-12-03T21:02:24Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Mitch McConnell is backtracking on his call for Roy Moore to drop out. > [Mitch McConnell backtracks three weeks after saying Roy Moore should drop out: 'I’m going to let the people of Alabama make the call'](https://www.yahoo.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-backtracks-three-weeks-151326428.html) > [@](#): > > “I’m going to let the people of Alabama make the call,” McConnell said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Why does no reporter follow that non-statement up with “If you lived in Alabama, how would you vote?” or “Do you want Roy Moore to be one of your colleagues?” or something with an actual point to it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1792) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1794)