# 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:** 1935
**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 22, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38682 "2018-08-22T18:51:51Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And how, exactly, is one ‘removed by force’ from a committee assignment? Do they call in the Storm Troopers? Or maybe the Vatican Guard? Blackwater? Hunter and Ryan’s choice for the chairmanship play London Bridge for the chairmans’s seat. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38683 "2018-08-22T19:10:21Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And how, exactly, is one ‘removed by force’ from a committee assignment? Do they call in the Storm Troopers? Or maybe the Vatican Guard? Blackwater? Ninjas. It’s always ninjas. I think they might also vote him off the committees. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38684 "2018-08-22T19:21:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The National Republican Congressional Committee is showing an image of Trump in front of a space shuttle getting ready for launch. > The Columbia. > [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlEKuFPW0AAHZOu.jpg:large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlEKuFPW0AAHZOu.jpg:large) > [@eschereal](#): > > Why does that make me envision smoldering chunks of Shitgibbon scattered across east Texas? It gives me a horrifying image of the Presidential speech if the Shitgibbon had been in office when _Columbia_ was lost: “I’ve just been told that the space shuttle broke into pieces and fell down across three of the states I carried in my great victory…”. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38685 "2018-08-22T19:22:15Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And how, exactly, is one ‘removed by force’ from a committee assignment? Do they call in the Storm Troopers? Or maybe the Vatican Guard? Blackwater? “If both survive the _lirpa_…”. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38686 "2018-08-22T19:33:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The CNN report on the Duncan Hunter indictment is hilarious reading. > [https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/duncan-hunter-indicted/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/duncan-hunter-indicted/index.html) A quick bit of math shows Hunter overdrew his bank account every 2.3 days, on average. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38687 "2018-08-22T19:49:51Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And how, exactly, is one ‘removed by force’ from a committee assignment? Do they call in the Storm Troopers? Or maybe the Vatican Guard? Blackwater? The Sergeant at Arms (and his jackbooted minions) can be summoned if he tries to attend a committee meeting or vote, just as with any other spectator. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38688 "2018-08-22T21:51:13Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Why does that make me envision smoldering chunks of Shitgibbon scattered across east Texas? You’re in a good mood today? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38689 "2018-08-22T23:01:48Z")
Maybe not East Texas, kinda populated. West Texas is pretty vacant except for all the emptiness. Pacific is out, because whales… ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38690 "2018-08-22T23:42:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Maybe not East Texas, kinda populated. West Texas is pretty vacant except for all the emptiness. Pacific is out, because whales… East Texas is where much of [the debris from the Columbia disaster fetched up](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Columbia_debris_detected_by_radar.jpg). ---
**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 23, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38691 "2018-08-23T00:26:22Z")
We have a winner!!! > **[Miami Herald Endorses Candidate Who Says She Was Taken By Space Aliens](https://www.yahoo.com/news/miami-herald-endorses-candidate-says-160943279.html)** > > "Here's why we chose her: She's not crazy," the editorial page editor said about the GOP House contender. I’m not saying it was aliens… ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38692 "2018-08-23T01:20:01Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > In Fort Worth, Texas some Republicans want the vice chairman of the Tarrant County GOP to be removed because he is a Muslim. Apparently any attempt to diversify the party will chip away at the morals that define it. Story from the Dallas Morning News ['Time we took our party back': Some Republicans want Muslim Tarrant County leader ousted](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-politics/2018/08/21/time-took-party-back-republicans-want-muslim-tarrant-county-leader-ousted) > > I’ve never been very good at philosophy so maybe someone can help me with this: Is bigotry a moral value? No, it’s a religious one. ---
**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 23, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38693 "2018-08-23T04:46:06Z")
Tomi Lahren says Fox News never criticized Michelle Obama. > **[Tomi Lahren Lives in Alternate Universe Where Fox News Never Attacked...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/tomi-lahren-lives-in-alternate-universe-where-fox-news-never-attacked-michelle-obama?ref=scroll)** > > The conservative commentator, who apparently was born in 2017, seems unaware of her network's long history of attacking the former first lady. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38694 "2018-08-23T06:59:34Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Maybe not East Texas, kinda populated. West Texas is pretty vacant except for all the emptiness. Pacific is out, because whales… I gotta say, you are _on fire_ lately. ---
**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 23, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38695 "2018-08-23T10:42:12Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > We have a winner!!! > > [Miami Herald Endorses Candidate Who Says She Was Taken By Space Aliens](https://www.yahoo.com/news/miami-herald-endorses-candidate-says-160943279.html) > > I’m not saying it was aliens… I read about this a few days ago. The newspaper endorsing the alien abductee was the _smart_ part of that story. Did the other candidates even return the _Herald_’s calls? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38696 "2018-08-23T11:40:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tomi Lahren says Fox News never criticized Michelle Obama. > [Tomi Lahren Lives in Alternate Universe Where Fox News Never Attacked Michelle Obama](https://www.thedailybeast.com/tomi-lahren-lives-in-alternate-universe-where-fox-news-never-attacked-michelle-obama?ref=scroll) Someone should challenge her to give $1000 to charity for each time where there’s tape of their doing so. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38697 "2018-08-23T11:47:02Z")
Fox & Friends is outraged - OUTRAGED, I tell you! - that [the state of California wants kids to drink milk.](https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/aug/21/fox-news-channel/misleading-claim-fox-friends-california-kids-meal-/) > [@](#): > > Would a California bill really limit restaurant drink options for children to “only milk and water”? > > That’s the impression left by a recent segment on “Fox & Friends”, an influential show that’s sometimes live-tweeted by President Trump… > > Here’s part of what the bill says: “This bill would require a restaurant, as defined, that sells a children’s meal that includes a beverage, to make the default beverage water, sparkling water, or flavored water, as specified, or unflavored milk or a nondairy milk alternative, as specified.” > > The Fox hosts generally get that portion of the bill correct. > > But they leave out, until the end of the segment, any reference to a key provision of the bill: > > “The bill would not prohibit a restaurant’s ability to sell, or a customer’s ability to purchase, an alternative beverage if the purchaser requests one.” We’ve seen this GOP backlash against nutrition ever since Michelle Obama started promoting healthy school lunches, of course. This is just another chapter in the “I WANT ICE CREAM FOR BREAKFAST TO OWN THE LIBS!” debacle that the modern GOP has become. ---
**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 23, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38698 "2018-08-23T22:08:00Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Someone should challenge her to give $1000 to charity for each time where there’s tape of their doing so. Should she do so, I’m sure she’ll find living under an overpass to be an enriching and enlightening experience. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38699 "2018-08-24T14:43:07Z")
California Rep. Duncan Hunter, faced with prosecution for misuse of campaign funds, throws his own wife under the bus: . > [@HuffPost](#): > > On Thursday evening, Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked Hunter, “Are you saying it’s more her fault than your fault?” > > Hunter, a Republican from San Diego who served in the Marines, replied: “I’m saying when I went to Iraq in 2003, the first time, I gave her power of attorney and she handled my finances throughout my entire military career and that continued on when I got into Congress. Because I’m gone five days a week, I’m home for two.” > > “And she was also the campaign manager,” he added. “Whatever she did, that will be looked at too, I’m sure. But I didn’t do it." > **[Rep. Duncan Hunter Blames Wife For Campaign Spending Under Inquiry](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rep-duncan-hunter-blames-wife-for-campaign-spending_n_5b7f7dabe4b07295151179f2)** > > Hunter and his wife are under indictment for the alleged misuse of $250,000 in campaign money. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38700 "2018-08-24T14:48:44Z")
That’s just cold-blooded. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38701 "2018-08-24T14:51:40Z")
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