# 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:** 1882
**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 9, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37622 "2018-05-09T23:29:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Patrick Little, the Nazi Republican who is second in polling for the California Senate primary, was kicked out of the Republican state convention yesterday and left dragging and stepping on an Israeli flag. > [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > Why would that be the case? The California Republican Party can throw him out of their convention, but they can’t stop him from running for senate as a Republican, and he’s still doing that and doing better than anyone else running as a Republican. There are many fine people on both sides of the issue. Besides, he’ll get at least the minimum standard 27% of the vote. Idiots, maroons, straight party line voters. I’ll assume he will wrap himself in a US flag, bray out NRA talking points, promise to kill the doctors and mothers involved in abortions, moohrr tax cuts, spout racial dog-whistles, Benghazi, emails. Probably up to 35% by now.☹ ---
**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 10, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37623 "2018-05-10T02:37:27Z")
The state of Louisiana is cutting its healthcare benefits because of a one cent sales tax reduction. The Department of Health Deputy Secretary announced that as many as 37,000 Medicaid recipients may have to move out of nursing homes and grou homes because their benefits will not cover their care. > **[Tens of thousands of Louisiana residents could face eviction from nursing and...](https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/us/louisiana-medicaid-cuts-nursing-homes-evictions/index.html)** > > More than 30,000 Medicaid recipients in Louisiana, many in nursing or group homes, could lose their benefits due to proposed state cuts -- a situation that could force thousands to move. ---
**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, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37624 "2018-05-10T04:10:40Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Blankenship came in third in the primary. It was the bus loads of illegal aliens from Maine that beat him. And antifa, cheatin’ Clinton Foundation, Chinese hackers summoned by cocaine McConnell, and George Soros a.k.a. “deep state”.:eek: ---
**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:** [May 10, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37625 "2018-05-10T09:46:48Z")
I saw the John Oliver piece on Blankenship last night and holy crap that guy is seriously creepy. Like “pedophile uncle” creepy. Even the ads that didn’t feature him were disturbing - apparently repeating the word “Obama” is sufficient to convince people to vote for Blankenship. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37626 "2018-05-10T14:24:59Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I saw the John Oliver piece on Blankenship last night and holy crap that guy is seriously creepy. Like “pedophile uncle” creepy. Even the ads that didn’t feature him were disturbing - apparently repeating the word “Obama” is sufficient to convince people to vote for Blankenship. Well, not really, since he came in 3rd. But I saw that too. What he was saying was awful and should have outraged me. And it would have, if the man had any personality at all. ---
**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 10, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37627 "2018-05-10T17:31:04Z")
Former Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerny, an early Trump supporter, was on Fox News last night, saying that it’s been proven that torture works. “The fact is, is John McCain – it worked on John. That’s why they call him ‘Songbird John.’” When has he ever been called Songbird John? > **[Military analyst on Fox advocates for torture: "It worked on John \[McCain\]....](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/military-analyst-fox-advocates-torture-it-worked-john-mccain-thats-why-they-call-him)** > > Update: Fox News told The Daily Beast that Lt. Gen. McInerney has not been a paid analyst for "nearly a year." Host Charles Payne issued an apology on Twitter and later on his Fox Business show. Update 2 (5/11): A Fox spokeswoman told CNN's... ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37628 "2018-05-10T17:42:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Former Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerny, an early Trump supporter, was on Fox News last night, saying that it’s been proven that torture works. “The fact is, is John McCain – it worked on John. That’s why they call him ‘Songbird John.’” When has he ever been called Songbird John? > [https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/05/10/fox-analyst-calls-america-embrace-torture-because-it-worked-sen-john-mccain-thats-why-they-call-him/220182](https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/05/10/fox-analyst-calls-america-embrace-torture-because-it-worked-sen-john-mccain-thats-why-they-call-him/220182) God, just when you think Fox and the Republicans can’t sink any lower. A dying man, who has served his nation honorably for decades in the military and in the Senate: but he doesn’t like Trump. So fuck him, he’s the enemy. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37629 "2018-05-10T17:50:50Z")
Hopefully that officer is keenly aware that his career will come to a screeching halt the next time there is a Democrat, or a less belligerent Republican in the White House. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37630 "2018-05-10T17:58:09Z")
Operative word is “former”, as in “former Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerny”. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37631 "2018-05-10T18:06:48Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Operative word is “former”, as in “former Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerny”. Ah sorry, missed that part. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37632 "2018-05-10T18:18:17Z")
Yeh, his career is going just fine. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37633 "2018-05-10T18:39:23Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Ah sorry, missed that part. :smack: Please note the utter absence of snark. I don’t waste ammo on the good guys. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37634 "2018-05-10T18:40:19Z")
Quite the asshole. From his wikipedia page; \*In 2010, McInerney provided his support against the court martial of Terrence Lakin who refused to deploy to Afghanistan due to his suspicion of President Barack Obama’s birthplace.] President Obama had released his short-form birth certificate during his 2008 campaign and released the long-form version in April 2011. \* SO the motherfucker is a birther. :smack: In an August, 2017 interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, the following exchange occurred: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Well, when I say no good option – if we have to strike, we’re going to incinerate that place. The nuclear fallout, correct me if I’m wrong – the fallout potential is dramatic. I mean, potentially – am I right, or overstating the fact that millions could potentially die here? MCINERNEY: Yeah, but they’ll be mostly North Koreans. On a May 10, 2018 interview with Charles Payne on Fox News, the following exchange occurred in regards to whether Gina Haspel would be confirmed to lead the CIA: CHARLES PAYNE (HOST): Senator John McCain, he’s not going to endorse Haspel also in part because she believes in torture, that she thinks it works, even though she laid out at least three instances where it did work to the benefit of humankind, not just Americans, but all human beings. Should they be evaluating this nominee on her feelings, or based strictly on the facts and her commitment not to use it anymore because it’s no longer legal for us. THOMAS MCINERNEY (FOX NEWS MILITARY ANALYST): Well she can’t use it anymore because we have determined in Congress that it’s not legal. The fact is, is John McCain – it worked on John. That’s why they call him ‘Songbird John.’ The fact is those methods can work, and they are effective, as former Vice President Cheney said. And if we have to use them to save a million American lives, we will do whatever we have to. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37635 "2018-05-10T18:43:54Z")
Zombie Curtis LeMay. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37636 "2018-05-10T19:15:07Z")
And he’s got history . . . > [@Slate](#): > > [McInerney’s previous highlight](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/fox-news-analyst-john-mccain-broke-under-torture.html?via=homepage_recirc_recent)as an analyst was probably when he reported that secret information indicated the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 plane had been diverted to Pakistan for potential use as a “weapon of mass destruction.” (The information is “starting to become verified,” he told Sean Hannity at the time. “We’ve got a lot of sensors up there … I suspect we may, in the next 24 to 48 hours, start hearing from either the Malaysian government or the Pakistani government. If the Pakistani government doesn’t talk soon, they’re going to be complicit in this.” Responded Hannity: “I’d argue that they’re complicit now.” The plane did not land in Pakistan.) ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37637 "2018-05-10T22:49:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Former Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerny, an early Trump supporter, was on Fox News last night, saying that it’s been proven that torture works. “The fact is, is John McCain – it worked on John. That’s why they call him ‘Songbird John.’” When has he ever been called Songbird John? > [https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/05/10/fox-analyst-calls-america-embrace-torture-because-it-worked-sen-john-mccain-thats-why-they-call-him/220182](https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/05/10/fox-analyst-calls-america-embrace-torture-because-it-worked-sen-john-mccain-thats-why-they-call-him/220182) GASP. I **loathe** McCain, and I’m offended. ---
**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 10, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37638 "2018-05-10T23:09:19Z")
I think it’s a bullet point on the alt-right newsletter (possibly in Cyrillic). I saw some troll on Twitter floating that slur last week. First I heard of it then, so color me surprised when Gen Turgidson pipes up on Fox “News” with the same slur. ---
**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 10, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37639 "2018-05-10T23:13:43Z")
Is there some kind of Biggest Asshole of the Week competition going on? > [@](#): > > [White House Official Mocked ‘Dying’ McCain At Internal Meeting](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/387182-white-house-official-mocked-dying-mccain-at-internal-meeting) > > A White House official mocked Sen. John McCain’s brain cancer diagnosis at an internal meeting on Thursday, a day after the Arizona Republican announced his opposition to President Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel. > > Special assistant Kelly Sadler made the derisive comments during a closed-door White House meeting of about two-dozen communications staffers on Thursday morning. > > “It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway,” Sadler said, according to a source familiar with the remarks at the meeting… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37640 "2018-05-10T23:17:55Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > God, just when you think Fox and the Republicans can’t sink any lower. A dying man, who has served his nation honorably for decades in the military and in the Senate: but he doesn’t like Trump. So fuck him, he’s the enemy. It has never occurred to me that Republicans couldn’t sink any lower. Not once. They always shock me, but they never surprise me. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37641 "2018-05-11T00:20:07Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Is there some kind of Biggest Asshole of the Week competition going on? At least McCain has a brain to get cancer in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1881) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1883)