# 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:** 212
**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:** [January 19, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4221 "2012-01-19T22:59:11Z")
Depends, is it a taxing tablespoon or a spending tablespoon ? ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4222 "2012-01-20T01:13:12Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > But I think that’s a fairly recent phenomenon, maybe starting with the corporate raiders of the 80’s? 1976, actually, according to [Roger Martin](http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/) author of a book, _Fixing the Game_, about the shareholder revolution and its implications: > [@](#): > > Martin says that the trouble began in 1976 when finance professor Michael Jensen and Dean William Meckling of the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester published a seemingly innocuous paper in the Journal of Financial Economics entitled “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure.” He says that since then, company management has focused on the “expectations game” of managing the markets’ expectations of performance as reflected in the stock price. He compares this to a football coach betting on his team’s performance against the spread. ETA: Although the article refers to this practice as the “dumbest idea in the world” I don’t think it’s a dumb _Republican_ idea, nor is it really timely. Just continuing the tangential conversation. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4223 "2012-01-20T11:39:04Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Has this guy been mentioned yet? > > [David Spence, Missouri gubernatorial candidate, does have a degree in economics.](http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-fix/spence-s-college-degree-economics-yes-but-of-the-home/article_5075c222-3bbe-11e1-bd93-0019bb30f31a.html) Only he forget to add the word “Home” in there. > > He _meant_ to get a degree in economics, only he was too stupid to get in to the business school. The stupid part is that he seems to have made a significant success of his business after he left school, so fudging his academic credentials looks like a petty and pointless exercise. Own it, dude. Heh - I said “fudging”. ETA: He’s changed the website now. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4224 "2012-01-20T23:05:37Z")
Meet Mike O’Neal, (R), speaker of the state senate. > **[Lawmaker Apologizes After Sending Outrageous Anti-Obama Email](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-oneal-obama-email_n_1218601?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl12%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D129088)** > > Lawmaker Apologizes After Sending Outrageous Anti-Obama Email “A Kansas Republican leader under fire for sending an email invoking a bible verse to suggest that Democratic President Barack Obama’s “days be few in number” apologized on Thursday but said that he would not resign.” He says he was just referring to political longevity, not advocating assassination of the Pres. The article later notes: The following verse reads, “May his children be orphans and his wife a widow.” Moron redux… ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4225 "2012-01-21T00:35:43Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Meet Mike O’Neal, (R), speaker of the state senate. > [Mike O'Neal, Kansas House Speaker, Apologizes For Email, Says He Wasn't Urging Obama's Death | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/mike-oneal-obama-email_n_1218601.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl12%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D129088) > > “A Kansas Republican leader under fire for sending an email invoking a bible verse to suggest that Democratic President Barack Obama’s “days be few in number” apologized on Thursday but said that he would not resign.” > He says he was just referring to political longevity, not advocating assassination of the Pres. > The article later notes: The following verse reads, “May his children be orphans and his wife a widow.” > Moron redux… This reminds of the comedian Dom Irrera who had a bit about Italians negating anything bad they might say about someone by adding a disclaimer at the end such as, “That guy is a lowlife scumbag motherfucking asshole! Oh, I don’t mean that in a bad way…” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4226 "2012-01-21T14:18:17Z")
Bless his heart. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4227 "2012-01-21T16:09:28Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Bless his heart. 😃 He means well. . . . ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4228 "2012-01-21T17:36:39Z")
Well, here’s a new one on me. Black, Tea Party leader [Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/rev-jesse-lee-peterson-agrees-with-gingrich_n_1211651.html?ref=mostpopular%20target=): > [@](#): > > “One of the things that I would do is take all black people back to the South and put them on the plantation so they would understand the ethic of working,” Peterson told The Huffington Post’s Black Voices on Tuesday afternoon. “I’m going to put them all on the plantation. They need a good hard education on what it is to work.” It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to know that Republican stupidity knows no color or race. Republican stupidity is a really fucking big tent. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4229 "2012-01-21T17:40:05Z")
Wow, and Republicans claim black Democrats are brainwashed. Unbelievable – it is not more or less than a return to slavery. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4230 "2012-01-21T18:26:32Z")
I think this pretty much sums up the Rev. Peterson: > [@](#): > > …he formed the Tea Party of South Central Los Angeles… ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4231 "2012-01-21T18:37:18Z")
> [@from RNATB's post](#): > > …he formed the Tea Party of South Central Los Angeles… Is it really “forming” if you’re the only member? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4232 "2012-01-21T18:39:58Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Is it really “forming” if you’re the only member? I am sure he got a lot of drop-in interest. The 'hood thought it was a new medical marijuana dispensary. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4233 "2012-01-21T18:42:33Z")
HE says he agrees with Newt, but even Newt wouldn’t go this far (though he might secretly want to). ---
**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:** [January 21, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4234 "2012-01-21T18:42:51Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I am sure he got a lot of drop-in interest. The 'hood thought it was a new medical marijuana dispensary. That’s the THC Party, down by the hammock district. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4235 "2012-01-22T06:37:07Z")
Mike Huckabee, some people’s definition of a [reasonable conservative](http://mediamatters.org/blog/201201200016): > [@](#): > > Speaking on The O’Reilly Factor, Huckabee said of Romney, “Let him make this challenge: ‘I’ll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he **got any loans as a foreign student**. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.’” And, of course, right now it’s not Obama clamoring to see the tax returns, it’s Romney’s primary opponents. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4236 "2012-01-22T14:58:38Z")
You need student loans to go to elementary school? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4237 "2012-01-22T15:02:21Z")
In Kenya? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4238 "2012-01-22T17:36:22Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > You need student loans to go to elementary school? I think he means whether he applied for college loans and listed himself as a foreign national rather than a US citizen. Of course, we’re clearly in la-la land here, so maybe he wants to know if Obama borrowed money to go to school on Mars. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4239 "2012-01-22T18:45:33Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > You need student loans to go to elementary school? Oh Jesus, don’t give them any ideas. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4240 "2012-01-22T20:29:49Z")
Mike Huckabee’s comment reminds me of that line from the old Steve Martin “_What I Believe_” routine: “…I believes in seven of the Ten Commandments…” I wonder if Huckabee attends “Bearers of False Witnessing Anonymous.” Probably not–who would believe him? Bless his heart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=211) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=213)