# 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:** 257
**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:** [April 13, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5121 "2012-04-13T13:48:39Z")
Or that the USSR hasn’t existed since 1991. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5122 "2012-04-13T14:59:27Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Or that the USSR hasn’t existed since 1991. Or Russian Czars since 1917, when they were _eliminated_ by the Communists. That’s right! Czars were actually anti-Communist! _tea party head asplodes_ ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5123 "2012-04-13T15:03:00Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Or Russian Czars since 1917, when they were _eliminated_ by the Communists. That’s right! Czars were actually anti-Communist! _ **tea party head asplodes** _ Wouldn’t it be more likely to cave in? ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5124 "2012-04-13T15:16:05Z")
The “czar” thing is really one of the stupidest things I have ever heard righties complain about. Does it gain traction with them simply because they think foreign sounding=bad or what? ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5125 "2012-04-13T15:41:45Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > The “czar” thing is really one of the stupidest things I have ever heard righties complain about. Does it gain traction with them simply because they think foreign sounding=bad or what? Short answer – yes. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5126 "2012-04-13T15:49:32Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > The “czar” thing is really one of the stupidest things I have ever heard righties complain about. Does it gain traction with them simply because they think foreign sounding=bad or what? Plus their incredibly short memory helps them forget that GOP presidents have “czars” too. Or is it simply ignorance? ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5127 "2012-04-13T16:46:10Z")
I’m wondering if it’s a combo of foreign=bad and also, all government is bad so someone actually being in charge of something is also bad, in other words it offends starve the beasters. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5128 "2012-04-13T16:51:19Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > I’m wondering if it’s a combo of foreign=bad and also, all government is bad so someone actually being in charge of something is also bad, in other words it offends starve the beasters. That, plus it also sounds unaccountable. “Executive Director of Energy Resources Council” is just another harmless bureaucrat. But “Energy Czar” makes it sound like he’s running amok, spending taxpayer money like water on vodka and caviar, accountable to no one, subject only to the whims of the president and thumbing his nose at Congress. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5129 "2012-04-13T16:56:15Z")
What if the government incorporated itself with a four year corporate charter and declared itself as its own major shareholders? That way they could do whatever they hell they wanted to line their pockets and the Republicans could only applaud 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:** [April 13, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5130 "2012-04-13T18:17:43Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > What if the government incorporated itself with a four year corporate charter and declared itself as its own major shareholders? > > That way they could do whatever they hell they wanted to line their pockets and the Republicans could only applaud them… Well, it would of course depend on whether he created jobs. And by creating jobs I of course mean offshoring all of the Treasury in a Caïman Island bank and offsourcing Congress to Viet-Nam because they law you long time at 5 cents a bill. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5131 "2012-04-13T20:26:06Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Truly awesome! Thanks for hunting that down and posting it for us all! +1 I think I heard that for the first and only time in 1963. Funny what one remembers. John Birch Society Song - Chad Mitchell Trio: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6taS9R1KM&feature=player\_embedded#](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6taS9R1KM&feature=player_embedded#)! ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5132 "2012-04-13T21:58:13Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Refusing to rest on their laurels after passing their creationism-in-public-schools legislation, Tennessee senators have [approved a bill](http://www.wmctv.com/story/17353757/bill-would-define-holding-hands-kissing-as-gateway-sexual-activity) updating the abstinence based sex-ed law that would discourage “gateway sexual activity”, naming such dangerous activities as “holding hands” and “kissing.” That bill allows parents to sue. Presumably if their kid somehow finds out too much in sex ed. That isn’t very GOP-like. Whatever happened to torte reform and stopping nusiance lawsuits that are making all the crooked lawyers rich? I guess it’s OK when you sue for something important(like excess knowledge), unlike say, equal pay for equal work. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5133 "2012-04-13T22:08:11Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Refusing to rest on their laurels after passing their creationism-in-public-schools legislation, Tennessee senators have [approved a bill](http://www.wmctv.com/story/17353757/bill-would-define-holding-hands-kissing-as-gateway-sexual-activity) updating the abstinence based sex-ed law that would discourage “gateway sexual activity”, naming such dangerous activities as “holding hands” and “kissing.” Makes you wonder what they got up to in their younger years that they feel they have to pass laws discouraging it. Or maybe it’s jealousy of what they didn’t get up to … ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5134 "2012-04-13T22:09:37Z")
Tennessee probably should ban baseball broadcasts as well. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5135 "2012-04-13T22:11:38Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > I guess it’s OK when you sue for something important(like excess knowledge), unlike say, equal pay for equal work. Yep. Precisely why Pete Hoekstra (of the “China Girl” political ad fame) says the Lily Ledbetter Act is a [“nuisance” law](http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/13/464399/hoekstra-ledbetter/). ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5136 "2012-04-13T22:27:25Z")
I’m waiting for the laws establishing a curfew for everyone under 70 and requiring everyone to wear an onion on their belt. ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5137 "2012-04-13T23:03:20Z")
> [@Algher](#): > > If I thought they were being legit (which I do NOT): > > 1. Fight to keep the nepotism laws in effect > 2. Reaction to Hillary’s secret health care committee > > In reality, it is partisan politics - but there is an argument that if the First Lady is going to be involved in running things, there should be some types of controls in place. People Voted for Barrack, not Michelle. I believe appointing the wifey is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5138 "2012-04-13T23:16:45Z")
Did you just awake from a cryogenic sleep? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5139 "2012-04-13T23:31:23Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > I’m waiting for the laws establishing a curfew for everyone under 70 and requiring everyone to wear an onion on their belt. Well that was the style in those days, but today’s young’uns have an entirely different array of fashion statements, like the notion that their waist line is midway between their knees and their nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5140 "2012-04-14T03:43:03Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Actually, that reminds me, Romney supports a traditional definition of marriage and he’s a _Mormon_. Clearly not “one man and one woman” then, eh? You’d do far better if you actually knew what you’re talking about. You might want to consider that advice as applying to your thread about Romney also. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=256) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=258)