# 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:** 30
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/581 "2009-07-31T19:33:57Z")
Liberals are at fault for delusional GOPers: [Eric Cantor Rips Chris Matthews, MSNBC, HuffPo, Liberal Bloggers For Inflating Birther Story](http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/eric-cantor-rips-chris-matthews-msnbc-huffpo-liberal-bloggers-for-pushing-birther-story/) ---
**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 31, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/582 "2009-07-31T19:59:09Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Liberals are at fault for delusional GOPers: > [Eric Cantor Rips Chris Matthews, MSNBC, HuffPo, Liberal Bloggers For Inflating Birther Story](http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/eric-cantor-rips-chris-matthews-msnbc-huffpo-liberal-bloggers-for-pushing-birther-story/) On some level I have to respect cojones like those. You got some grapefruits there, Senor Cantor. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/583 "2009-07-31T22:24:14Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > On some level I have to respect cojones like those. You got some grapefruits there, Senor Cantor. Please. They’re called cantorloupes. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/584 "2009-07-31T23:23:02Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Liberals are at fault for delusional GOPers: > [Eric Cantor Rips Chris Matthews, MSNBC, HuffPo, Liberal Bloggers For Inflating Birther Story](http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/eric-cantor-rips-chris-matthews-msnbc-huffpo-liberal-bloggers-for-pushing-birther-story/) “Yeah, but who’re the assholes who keep TALKING about how fucking crazy my constituents and colleagues are?” ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/585 "2009-08-01T00:00:53Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I’ve been working on a project and haven’t been paying too much attention to the stupid Republicans, but it looks like something will happen today that might make this guy win the week. > [House to consider resolution demanding Obama apologize to Crowley](http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/24/house-to-take-up-resolution-demanding-obama-apologize-to-crowley/) > > Here’s the full resolution by McCotter (R-Dumbass): > President Obama goofed and said something he shouldn’t have said (but that a lot of us were thinking). He’s human too. However, he immediately made it right by calling Crowley and Gates and inviting them to the White House, and then breaking in on a Gibbs press conference to chide himself for his poor choice of words and expressing the hope that this incident would become a “teachable moment.” How many presidents do that sort of thing? > > Well, yeah, it’s become a teachable moment alright. It’s already taught me that Thaddeus McCotter is an idiot. > > Oh, and here’s another hypocrite for the Hypocrite Files: > [Pro-Life State Sen. Paul Stanley, Mr. Abstinence cheats on wife with 22 year old intern and gets blackmailed](http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/state-sen-paul-stanley) Don’t these blowhards in Congress have anything better to do than draw up some stupid censure-type resolution because the President said something mildly regrettable? It’s no wonder these hacks waste taxpayer money. And that’s where politics is truly bi-lateral. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/586 "2009-08-01T13:18:41Z")
Here is Glenn Beck doing another of his “web of bubbles” white board diagrams where he takes a bunch of random almost- facts and connects them together into a giant left wing conspiracy. > **[Glenn Beck "Uncovers" Conspiracy Involving Green Jobs Czar Van Jones (VIDEO)](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/glenn-beck-uncovers-van-j_n_249044)** > > Glenn Beck "Uncovers" Conspiracy Involving Green Jobs Czar Van Jones (VIDEO) He would be an interesting case study in mental illness. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/587 "2009-08-01T14:25:57Z")
Dick Armey sez **Jesus** will let us pee in as many ponds as we can find: > [@](#): > > Let me say I take it as an article of faith if the lord God almighty made the heavens and the Earth, and he made them to his satisfaction and it is quite pretentious of we little weaklings here on earth to think that, that we are going to destroy God’s creation. [http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/31/armey-pollution-gospel/](http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/31/armey-pollution-gospel/) Naturally, Armey was the house majority leader from the times _before_ Republicans went whacko the diddle oh, or was there ever such a time? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/588 "2009-08-01T14:30:26Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Don’t these blowhards in Congress have anything better to do than draw up some stupid censure-type resolution because the President said something mildly regrettable? > > It’s no wonder these hacks waste taxpayer money. And that’s where politics is truly bi-lateral. McCotter is the rep from a district in the suburban Detroit area. Heavily auto industry country. You’re damned right he has more important things to worry about than this. Yet this is what he’s spending his time on. I can’t wait for the opportunity to vote against this guy yet again. The only reasons he squeaked through last time are 1)incumbency and 2) it is a largely conservative district. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/589 "2009-08-22T02:11:25Z")
[Lookee here](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/bachmann-no-government-control-over-my-body.php), Michele Bachmann is now pro-choice: > [@](#): > > That’s why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress," said Bachmann, “and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.” Now all we need is an admission that the Pubs meddled in Terri Schiavo’s medical decisions and we’ve won! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/590 "2009-08-22T03:48:40Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > [Lookee here](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/bachmann-no-government-control-over-my-body.php), Michele Bachmann is now pro-choice > > \ Nice try, you liberal scum! Oh, you thought you’d get somewhere with your Olbermann talking point, but Michele CLEARLY said that she didn’t want government control over _her_body. She didn’t say anything about anyone else’s! Republican handbook, page 66, section four, under IOOIYAAR. Touchmate! ---
**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:** [August 22, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/591 "2009-08-22T03:51:32Z")
> [@Enfant Terrible](#): > > Nice try, you liberal scum! > > Oh, you thought you’d get somewhere with your Olbermann talking point, but Michele CLEARLY said that she didn’t want government control over _her_body. She didn’t say anything about anyone else’s! > > Republican handbook, page 66, section four, under IOOIYAAR. Touchmate! FOILED AGAIN! _shakes tiny, liberal fist_ ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/592 "2009-08-22T07:51:52Z")
I say it would’ve counted if you posted it in the [Congresswoman with the crazy eyes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=520775) thread. Maybe there should be a few sticky Pit threads. This one, one for her, and one for Palin… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/593 "2009-08-22T08:43:38Z")
There are so many Republican doing so many stupid things that it finally exhausted me and I quit paying as much attention, but I’m glad other people are. This one I’d been meaning to post though. It’s an entry in [Wonkette’s blog](http://wonkette.com/410601/is-barack-obamas-mother-in-law-a-black-witch#more-410601) for something that appeared in the whack-a-doodle Townhall, but apparently even Townhall has some standards, because the link from Wonkette’s page is now empty. It’s still worth a laugh, simply because Townhall agreed to publish it in the first place. [QUOTE=Townhall, as quoted by Wonkette] The Obama White House is abuzz with talk of witchcraft by first grandmother, 72-year-old Marian Robinson, who lives in the White House residence. A close friend of Michelle Obama says the president is furious at his mother-in-law after learning that she was practicing Santeria, an African spirit cult, in the White House. ``` [...] This is how it happened. Marian Robinson became increasingly frustrated as her husband, Fraser Robinson, was hobbled by multiple sclerosis in the late 1980s. The family pastor prayed with her and counseled her, but “she turned to Santeria in a desperate hope,” Michelle’s friend said. “Michelle put her foot down when she heard that her mother took her dad to ceremonies where they did spells and trances, and sacrificed animals, chickens and goats I think. But Marian was desperate and kept going anyway, even when her husband was to sick to go with her. I don’t think the president knew anything about this earlier because it was before they met. Michelle and Craig (her brother) wanted to close the book on this and never talked about it again after their father died in 1991.” ``` … The president was “totally in favor” when his mother-in-law moved into the White House as a live-in babysitter for 11-year-old Malia and 8-year-old Sasha. Obama reportedly told Michelle that her mother will have to go back to Chicago if she does not “stop this witchcraft mumbo-jumbo immediately” and ordered the Secret Service to not allow Marian’s friend to return to the White House. [/QUOTE] Going after grandma now. That’s rich! Have we ever seen Townhall and the National Enquirer in the same room? I think not! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/594 "2009-08-27T17:22:50Z")
[Townhall shenanigans are the shenaniganiest!](http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/vocal-minority-greet-howard-dean-at-town-hall-2009-08-26.html) > [@](#): > > The Moran town hall was the last stop on a 10-city tour for Randall Terry, the anti-abortion activist known for his extreme tactics. > > Terry’s colleagues put on a skit with a man in an Obama mask pretending to whip a bloodied woman, who kept saying, “Massa, don’t hit me no more. I got the money to kill the babies.” > > Terry himself dressed in a doctor’s lab coat and pretended to stab a woman in a gray wig. > > “There’s no way to pay for this thing without killing granny,” Terry explained P.S. Moran is an awful name for a politician. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/595 "2009-08-27T19:32:09Z")
Representative Lynn Jenkins (R - Kansas) said that the GOP is searching for a [great white hope](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iTHvyXMSeuAHmv8eJyl7v2pmkgkgD9ABCLUO0). But she didn’t mean that in racial terms. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/596 "2009-08-27T19:56:45Z")
I’m willing to excuse that last one. I doubt it was racially motivated. It sounds like just a semi-lazy plucking of a phrase that is in the lexicon that she didn’t really put two and two together over regarding how it would sound. On the Crazy-Ass-Republican scale, she’s no Michelle Bachmann to be sure ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/597 "2009-08-27T19:58:19Z")
I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. But it was a really, really dumb idea. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/598 "2009-08-27T21:40:09Z")
Another one giving Lynn Jenkins a pass. Randall Terry, OTOH…what is _up_ with that dude? ---
**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:** [August 27, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/599 "2009-08-27T23:17:48Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Representative Lynn Jenkins (R - Kansas) said that the GOP is searching for a [great white hope](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iTHvyXMSeuAHmv8eJyl7v2pmkgkgD9ABCLUO0). But she didn’t mean that in racial terms. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/600 "2009-08-27T23:36:52Z")
I’m not as willing to give her a complete pass. As soon as she reached for an easy (I might have too), off-the-cuff, ready-made phrase containing the world “hope,” and started to add the word “white,” _even if it wasn’t referencing Obama’s race_, something should have told her it would be quite impolitic to suggest the antidote to the Democrat [del]socialist[/del] progressive actions had to be _any_ particular race – and stopped herself. Unless, of course, in the back of her mind she was thinking of the failure of _Michael Steele_’s selection as RNC Chairman to provide that hope. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=31)