# 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:** 291
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5801 "2012-06-28T13:53:38Z")
I think that you have hit upon the end game of all this, **legalsnugs**. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5802 "2012-06-28T13:58:13Z")
Armed fetuses and stand your ground legislation - coming to a state near you. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5803 "2012-06-28T14:32:31Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > Armed fetuses and stand your ground legislation - coming to a state near you. Gonna make c-sections a real bitch. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5804 "2012-06-29T18:36:45Z")
The crazy has gone nuclear since the ruling yesterday. [The Heartland Institute](http://heartland.org/press-releases/2012/06/28/heartland-institute-reacts-obamacare-ruling): > [@](#): > > The president intimidated Chief Justice John Roberts like Hugo Chavez intimidates the Venezuelan Supreme Court. The rule of law is now dead. The American people have only one more chance now to save their country. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5805 "2012-06-29T19:01:27Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The crazy has gone nuclear since the ruling yesterday. [The Heartland Institute](http://heartland.org/press-releases/2012/06/28/heartland-institute-reacts-obamacare-ruling): Looking over other reactions on that page I start to feel sorry for S.T. Karnick. His response was intelligible, to say the least. I may disagree with his politics, but his statement is far out of line with the other statements. It’s actually sane: > [@](#): > > As Dickens might have said, it was the best of possible outcomes for the law’s supporters, and it was the worst of possible outcomes for them. The individual mandate was upheld, but only as a tax – which makes it much easier to repeal, in procedural terms. That also makes it clear what is at the heart of Obamacare: a huge new tax on everybody. In addition, the Court found the Medicaid expansion – which is also central to the bill – cannot go forward as written. The bill was hence deemed constitutional but made thoroughly unworkable and more easily repealed. How he must hate life, forced to work with such absolute buffoons while trying to add a legitimate conservative voice to an insane circus. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5806 "2012-06-30T00:05:54Z")
He made his bed. Let him cry himself to sleep in it. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5807 "2012-06-30T01:12:36Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The crazy has gone nuclear since the ruling yesterday. [The Heartland Institute](http://heartland.org/press-releases/2012/06/28/heartland-institute-reacts-obamacare-ruling): You know they mean it, they invoked the broccoli rant: > [@](#): > > “The majority opinion on the individual mandate, authored by Chief Justice Roberts, held that, so long as failure to comply with a government directive is penalized by something ‘reasonably’ called a tax, Congress can force Americans to buy anything. It can force Americans to do something, indeed anything, like eat broccoli. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5808 "2012-06-30T01:37:43Z")
Most people outgrow complaining about having to eat brocoli when theyre about 7 or 8. I guess we know who the GOP’s main demographic is. Watch for the next talking point, “Obama says the World Series is cancelled until America mows the lawn, finishes its homework, and each amd every citizen personally takes Bo for a walk.” ---
**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:** [June 30, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5809 "2012-06-30T01:58:03Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The crazy has gone nuclear since the ruling yesterday. [The Heartland Institute](http://heartland.org/press-releases/2012/06/28/heartland-institute-reacts-obamacare-ruling): 5 (actually more) cringe worthy statements in one link: > **[5 cringe-worthy GOP reactions to the ObamaCare ruling](https://theweek.com/articles/474170/5-cringeworthy-gop-reactions-obamacare-ruling)** > > Some conservatives are lashing out over the Supreme Court's decision to uphold ObamaCare — in extreme, eyebrow-raising ways 1. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), a stalwart of the conservative movement, reportedly compared the Supreme Court’s decision to 9/11 2. Pam Geller, a popular fringe conservative commentator, took her criticism of Obama’s post-ruling speech to Transylvanian extremes. “Obama yapping’ again — why aren’t there American flags in the frame?” she tweeted. “The flag to Obama is like the [silver] cross to Dracula.” 3. Republicans also dabbled in apocalyptic forecasts. “Today America is threatened with a stage three cancer of socialism,” declared Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.). “When they look back on the American system of once-limited government,” said Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), “June 28, 2012, will stand as a definitive date in the advance of government tyranny.”- Dean Clancy 4. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) - . “Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so,”. 5. conservative leader Brent Bozell termed Roberts a “traitor,” and dozens of conservatives called for his impeachment. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5810 "2012-06-30T02:12:27Z")
Skippy, Romney is not going to be able to outspend President Obama by an 8 to 1 margin. He actually might lose. Therefore, don’t you think it might be a wise idea to get the ball rolling on setting up your state’s insurance exchange? I mean, just as a pragmatic contingency sort of thing. You know, the kind of thing good executives do every day.? > [@](#): > > \*\*Capitol Report: Walker’s vow to delay implementation of health care law meets criticism \*\* > > Gov. Scott Walker wasted no time following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act before taking up national GOP talking points and saying he won’t move to implement a key portion of the law until after the November elections. > > **snip** > > With the court’s ruling now confirming President Obama’s health care bill as the law of the land, all states are required to have their exchanges in place by 2014. > > While Walker and his state Department of Health Services secretary, Dennis Smith, said they would not advance efforts to create the state’s health exchange until after the November elections, others said the state had to implement the law, including state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican, at a Capitol press conference. > > Walker’s predecessor, Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, made a rare public statement after Thursday’s ruling. > > **snip** > > Doyle said in strong terms that it was time for leaders like Walker to acknowledge the ruling, the fact that Romney would have to win office and that at least 60 Republican votes would be needed in the U.S. Senate to repeal the law. They currently have only 47. > > “Part of a person’s job is actually preparing for things that didn’t go the way they wanted them to go,” Doyle said during a conference call with reporters Thursday. “But this is a federal law. And a federal law is a federal law.” > Doyle said by the time he left office at the end of 2010, the state had developed an exchange that was “pretty much ready to go in 2014.” > > **snip** > > “It was very clear the industry people on the panel didn’t want the plug pulled,” says Robert Kraig, a committee member and the executive director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin, which advocates for universal health care. > > Aside from Walker’s statements that he did not intend to move forward with implementing the exchanges, Doyle says the “more serious” statement being made was coming from Romney. > > His political campaign released an Internet video Thursday, the message of which is “Day one. Job one. Repeal Obamacare.” > > “I hope he understands there is a Congress that passes laws and those laws have to be carried out,” Doyle said of Romney’s remarks. “Congress would need 60 votes in the Senate (to repeal the law, withstanding a likely Democratic filibuster), and that’s just not going to happen.” > > Doyle added that he was “frustrated” that more people who voted for the law didn’t brag about what they had done. He added that what was accomplished in health care reform was a “tremendously important step forward.” > > “It is a law that years from now, after the political uproar dies down, people will wonder how we ever got along without it,” he said. Read more: [Capitol Report: Walker’s vow to delay implementation of health care law meets criticism](http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/capitol-report/article_e9d86b3e-c194-11e1-a791-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz1zCK8GBD9) Other Republican governors aren’t so ideological. The governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, will now move forward on a plan. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5811 "2012-06-30T02:37:13Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Other Republican governors aren’t so ideological. The governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, will now move forward on a plan. Gov. Bobby Jindal is[refusing to set up exchanges](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/bobby-jindals-big-blow-for-states-rights/2012/06/29/gJQAm7F9BW_blog.html)in Louisiana as well: > [@](#): > > “We’re not moving forward with the exchanges,” Jindal [said](http://gop12.thehill.com/2012/06/jindal-were-not-implementing-obamacare.html). “Instead, we’re going to do everything we can to defeat President Obama, get rid of ObamaCare.” > > … > > If the state does not want to run its own exchange, or collaborate with the feds to run it, the feds will begin setting up the exchange themselves in January. > If Jindal is serious about not implementing an exchange, the latter course is what will happen under the law, says Kathleen Stoll, the deputy executive director at the pro-Obamacare Families USA. > > “If the state hasn’t moved forward, at that point, the feds have to come in to run the exchange to protect the citizens of Lousiana,” Stoll says. “The irony is that Jindal has made a choice to waste time and available federal dollars he could have used to build a state exchange uniquely tailored to his vision and the needs of the people of Louisiana.” They’ve nothing else to do but stamp their foot. Pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5812 "2012-06-30T02:51:03Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > They’ve nothing else to do but stamp their foot. Pathetic. I’m actually a little bit sympathetic…they have no choice, really. If they do ANYTHING but absolutely refuse to admit that anything Obama or Democrats can do or have done is legitimate, they’re going to get railroaded right out of office by the insane idiots in the party base. ---
**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5813 "2012-06-30T02:51:13Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Other Republican governors aren’t so ideological. Not so fast. [Jindal](http://www.capitolcolumn.com/news/bobby-jindal-we-wont-implement-obamacare/)is also starving for attention. Oops, I mean Taking a Principled Stand! And managing to step on Romney’s dick in the process… “There’s only one candidate, Gov. Romney, who’s committed that he will repeal the **Obamney** - the Obamacare – tax increase,” [Jindal said](http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-503544_162-57463831-503544/health-care-ruling-incites-duel-between-big-name-governors/). He also strayed off [script](http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/legal-challenges/235625-jindal-ruling-could-force-eating-tofu-driving-hybrids): “It really raises the question of what’s next…” Jindal said … “Taxes on people who refuse to eat tofu…" Tofu?! C’mon Bobby it’s Broccoli week! Get with the program. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5814 "2012-06-30T04:31:21Z")
The insane rhetoric of 2012 makes Lewinskygate etc. now look like a bipartisan Era of Good Feelings. > [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Doyle said … that at least 60 Republican votes would be needed in the U.S. Senate to repeal the law. 50 votes. If Democrats dare to filibuster Romney on anything, I’m sure there will be shrill screams for the “remedy guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment.” ---
**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:** [June 30, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5815 "2012-06-30T22:48:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Most people outgrow complaining about having to eat brocoli when theyre about 7 or 8. I guess we know who the GOP’s main demographic is. Is it [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx5smKMqvHI)? Because he’s one of the few (comparatively) sensible ones left in the party. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5816 "2012-07-03T20:50:35Z")
Joe Walsh, the tea party congressman you may recall as a [deadbeat dad](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/28/281570/rep-joe-walsh-defends-not-paying-117000-in-child-support-this-is-where-real-america-is/), who [accused American Jews of anti-semitism](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/26/169835/walsh-lectures-jews/), and [shouted at one of his constituents that her Post Office job “wasn’t necessary”,](http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/10/365890/walsh-insults-post-office-worker/) is now running for reelection against Lt. Col. Tammy Duckworth, an Army helicopter pilot who lost both her legs during the Iraq war. [According to Walsh, however, she’s not a “true hero”, because she talks about her service](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/03/510443/joe-walsh-tammy-duckworth-service/), unlike John McCain, who never mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5817 "2012-07-03T21:12:06Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > 1. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) - . “Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so,”. Wow…talk about Unclear on the Concept. Apparently somebody slept through high school civics class. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5818 "2012-07-03T21:59:59Z")
Rand is technically correct, because in my book, a couple equals 2. Too bad it was a quintet. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5819 "2012-07-03T23:40:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Joe Walsh, the tea party congressman you may recall as a [deadbeat dad](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/28/281570/rep-joe-walsh-defends-not-paying-117000-in-child-support-this-is-where-real-america-is/), who [accused American Jews of anti-semitism](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/26/169835/walsh-lectures-jews/), and [shouted at one of his constituents that her Post Office job “wasn’t necessary”,](http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/10/365890/walsh-insults-post-office-worker/) is now running for reelection against Lt. Col. Tammy Duckworth, an Army helicopter pilot who lost both her legs during the Iraq war. > > [According to Walsh, however, she’s not a “true hero”, because she talks about her service](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/03/510443/joe-walsh-tammy-duckworth-service/), unlike John McCain, who never mentioned it. In fairness, all superheroes have legs. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5820 "2012-07-03T23:47:07Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Joe Walsh, the tea party congressman you may recall as a [deadbeat dad](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/28/281570/rep-joe-walsh-defends-not-paying-117000-in-child-support-this-is-where-real-america-is/), who [accused American Jews of anti-semitism](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/26/169835/walsh-lectures-jews/), and [shouted at one of his constituents that her Post Office job “wasn’t necessary”,](http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/10/365890/walsh-insults-post-office-worker/) is now running for reelection against Lt. Col. Tammy Duckworth, an Army helicopter pilot who lost both her legs during the Iraq war. > > > > [According to Walsh, however, she’s not a “true hero”, because she talks about her service](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/03/510443/joe-walsh-tammy-duckworth-service/), unlike John McCain, who never mentioned it. > > In fairness, all superheroes have legs. My favorite comment from the article: > [@](#): > > I hope fully functional cyborg legs are developed soon so Tammy Duckworth can both walk again and kick Joe Walsh in the nuts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=290) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=292)