# 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:** 1962
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39222 "2018-10-06T14:45:52Z")
“Grassley suggests absence of women on Judiciary due to committee’s heavy workload” > **[Grassley suggests absence of women on Judiciary due to committee’s heavy...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/grassley-suggests-absence-of-women-on-judiciary-due-to-committees-heavy-workload/2018/10/05/b289c0fe-c8e7-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html)** > > The committee has never had a Republican woman serve on it, even as the Senate’s ranks have doubled from three to six female GOP senators in recent years. > [@](#): > > Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) told reporters that the Senate Judiciary Committee’s inability to attract Republican women might be caused by its heavy workload, a remark the panel’s chairman tried to retract a few minutes later. > > “It’s a lot of work — maybe they don’t want to do it,” Grassley told the Wall Street Journal, NBC News and other outlets, as he headed toward the Senate floor for a speech by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). > … Maybe they should invite Democratic women to sit on the committee if the Pubbie women are too busy tending to Kinder, Küche, Kirche. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39223 "2018-10-06T18:08:45Z")
Giuliani retweets a post calling George Soros the anti-Christ. [Rudy Giuliani Spreads Message that "Anti-Christ" George Soros is Behind Kavanaugh Protests](https://www.newsweek.com/giuliani-retweets-message-claiming-anti-christ-soros-behind-kavanaugh-1156584)? ---
**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:** [October 6, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39224 "2018-10-06T18:22:06Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Is he going to get the kids after divorce? Adultering dads may not get that much visitation. That and the whole “living lasciviously” with his mistress. That’s why they are making women getting a divorce illegal. Much easier for men that way. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “Grassley suggests absence of women on Judiciary due to committee’s heavy workload” > [https://wapo.st/2pB2CHT](https://wapo.st/2pB2CHT) > > Maybe they should invite Democratic women to sit on the committee if the Pubbie women are too busy tending to Kinder, Küche, Kirche. There are only 23 Women in the senate. It’s not that hard to ask all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39225 "2018-10-06T22:34:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Giuliani retweets a post calling George Soros the anti-Christ. > [Rudy Giuliani Spreads Message that "Anti-Christ" George Soros is Behind Kavanaugh Protests](https://www.newsweek.com/giuliani-retweets-message-claiming-anti-christ-soros-behind-kavanaugh-1156584)? Huh ? I thought that was Obama ! There’s TWO anti-christs ?! That doesn’t seem fair. Is the WWE in on it ? Is this going to be a sudden-chair-to-the-Messiah-from-the-third-rope situation ? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39226 "2018-10-06T22:51:15Z")
Wait, my German isn’t very good, but “Children, Cooking, and… Cherries”? ---
**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:** [October 6, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39227 "2018-10-06T23:15:38Z")
Church, not cherries. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39228 "2018-10-07T18:36:27Z")
The Georgia Secretary of State’s office is being sued in feeral court for purging the voter rolls. > **[Brian Kemp's office to be sued for purging 700,000 voters from Georgia rolls](https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/brian-kemps-office-to-be-sued-for-purging-700000-voters-from-georgia-rolls/85-600064018)** > > In a response, Kemp says Georgia has never used data from the Crosscheck Program to conduct list maintenance in this state. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39229 "2018-10-07T19:24:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Georgia Secretary of State’s office is being sued in feeral court for purging the voter rolls. > [Brian Kemp's office to be sued for purging 700,000 voters from Georgia rolls | 11alive.com](https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/brian-kemps-office-to-be-sued-for-purging-700000-voters-from-georgia-rolls/85-600064018) You know, now that you mention it, feral courts do sound like a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39230 "2018-10-07T20:07:54Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > You know, now that you mention it, feral courts do sound like a good idea. They might make people appreciate the calm reasoned procedures of Thunderdome. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39231 "2018-10-07T20:20:00Z")
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…its procedure time!” ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39232 "2018-10-07T20:31:26Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > You know, now that you mention it, feral courts do sound like a good idea. Oh fuck no. You think raccoons are a problem, once you get judges… you can’t keep them out of anyplace, they know skilled break-in artists who find it worth doing them a favour, and I don’t know if you’ve ever seen an appellate court judge eat, but they can really pack it away. Bailiffs in the tub every morning, you turn on the lights in the kitchen and prosecutors scurry everywhere… it’s a nightmare. Exterminators won’t touch those jobs, we had to bring in students to get the hygiene levels low enough that they voluntarily left. Keep the courts where they belong. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39233 "2018-10-07T20:52:39Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > You know, now that you mention it, feral courts do sound like a good idea. And I went back and edited that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39234 "2018-10-07T20:57:52Z")
McConnell [would fill a Supreme Court seat](http://time.com/5418051/mitch-mcconnell-senate-trump-supreme-court-nomination-2020/)in 2020 if a vacancy arises, because apparently what he meant to say is that you don’t get to fill a seat in an election year if the Senate majority is the opposing party, but also because there are no ramifications for blatant hypocrisy anymore. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39235 "2018-10-07T21:54:36Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > McConnell [would fill a Supreme Court seat](http://time.com/5418051/mitch-mcconnell-senate-trump-supreme-court-nomination-2020/)in 2020 if a vacancy arises, because apparently what he meant to say is that you don’t get to fill a seat in an election year if the Senate majority is the opposing party, but also because there are no ramifications for blatant hypocrisy anymore. 27% of the nation—who are 50% of voters—thrill to his power. “Hypocrisy” is a concept meaningful only to those who know what “honor” and “integrity” mean…and they, very decidedly, do _not_. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39236 "2018-10-08T00:36:53Z")
Hey, Republicans? [Look what you made me do.](https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/410338-taylor-swift-breaks-silence-on-politics-supports-democrats-in) > [@](#): > > Pop star Taylor Swift on Sunday broke her career-long silence on politics to endorse former Democratic Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen over Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R) in the state’s Senate race. > > In an Instagram post, Swift wrote that Blackburn’s voting record “appalls and terrifies” her. > > “As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn,” Swift wrote. “I will be voting for Phil Bredesen for Senate and Jim Cooper for House of Representatives.” ---
**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:** [October 8, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39237 "2018-10-08T00:51:11Z")
As much as I want to hate on Susan Collins, she made a calculated decision. What, then, is she saying about the voters of Maine? I’ve always thought of Maine as one of the more educated and reasonable folks in the land, and if not necessarily educated, then certainly decent. Mainers, what is your Senator saying about you? Take your state back! ---
**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:** [October 8, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39238 "2018-10-08T01:13:52Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I’ve always thought of Maine as one of the more educated and reasonable folks in the land, and if not necessarily educated, then certainly decent. Don’t real a lot of Stephen King? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39239 "2018-10-08T01:15:18Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Don’t real a lot of Stephen King? Not enough apparently, lol ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39240 "2018-10-08T01:29:33Z")
1. Maine has more than its share of toothless backwoods yokels; to meet some of them, just go a couple miles inland from the coast. I just didn’t realize they made it to the polls so handily. 2. Germany in 1932 had one of the most sophisticated cultures and best educated populace in the world. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39241 "2018-10-08T01:33:23Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > 1. Maine has more than its share of toothless backwoods yokels; to meet some of them, just go a couple miles inland from the coast. I just didn’t realize they made it to the polls so handily. > > **2) Germany in 1932 had one of the most sophisticated cultures and best educated populace in the world**. The bold. That’s what has to be remembered. It’s also worth remembering that it wasn’t that long ago that Turkey and Venezuela were considered to be relatively stable democracies and forward thinking. Populism is a strong tonic, and ultimately, humans are barely more than talking monkeys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1961) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1963)