# 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:** 303
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6041 "2012-07-20T06:55:51Z")
See the kitten? Her name is Fluffy. See the blender? Once more, and in she goes… ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6042 "2012-07-20T12:16:43Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > OK, smart guy, then how do you explain the 1971 movie about the leader of a pack of rats, called “Willard”? And now Fred Willard has been arrested for lewd conduct at an adult theater. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6043 "2012-07-20T12:19:39Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > The government helped; they did it on a public beach. According to the wiki, they also asked their local weather service for a prognosis and sold planes to the precursor to the air force. Relying on government handouts! ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6044 "2012-07-20T16:18:49Z")
Louie Louie “woh-oh we gotta” Gohmert is [at it again](http://www.mediaite.com/online/rep-louie-gohmert-suggests-aurora-theater-shooting-result-of-ongoing-attacks-on-judeo-christan-beliefs/), claiming the Colorado shooting was due to all those attacks on Judeo-Christian values (which apparently include Batman in some way): > [@](#): > > “You know what really gets me, as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and then some senseless crazy act of a derelict takes place,” Rep. Gohmert lamented. > > Istook then reportedly interrupted to clarify for the audience that the motivations of alleged Aurora gunman James Holmes remains unknown. Rep. Gohmert conceded that fact but reportedly went on to suggest the shootings were “a terrorist act” that could have been avoided if the country hadn’t lost its faith in God." If only we’d prayed more, this would never have happened. But wait - it’s not just God we need: > [@](#): > > “People say […] where was God in all of this?” the congressman said. “We’ve threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God’s name, they’re going to be jailed […] I mean that kind of stuff. Where was God? What have we done with God? We don’t want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present.” > > Rep. Gohmert also said the tragedy possibly could have been avoided if someone else in the movie theater had been carrying a gun and was able to take down the shooter. Colorado law allows for the concealed carry of a firearm. “It does make me wonder: With all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly?” he asked. So we need God’s Protective Hand\* AND concealed firearms to keep us safe. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! And of course those darned atheists have a [history of suicide too](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/20/554761/tea-party-congressman-links-colorado-shooting-to-attacks-on-christianity/): > [@](#): > > ERNEST ISTOOK (HOST): What was your experience as a judge, when you’re on the bench, this is Congressman Luie Gohmert, when you’re on the bench, what was your experience with people who had mental health issues that were involved in crimes of violence? > > GOHMERT: Well, it’s always a problem and there are some people who require medication … But you know, I might mention something else that hadn’t been public yet. Most of us that follow the military, love the military know that we have had an extraordinary increase in suicide rates in the military and it’s just heartbreaking … There was a study commissioned, 6,000 personal of index profiles and what they found, and I don’t ‘know if they’ll make it public…but all of the people who have committed suicide within their two percent studied, were part of their 2 percent most atheistic members of the military. We’ve lost our faith. Note - not just atheists but MOST atheistic. Apparently they’ve got a sliding scale now. \*a Level 7 cleric spell ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6045 "2012-07-20T16:24:37Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Note - not just atheists but MOST atheistic. Apparently they’ve got a sliding scale now. Man, if I’d known I’d have to sell THAT many copies of _The God Delusion_ to make the top levels I’d never have even started! ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6046 "2012-07-20T16:41:07Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Louie Louie “woh-oh we gotta” Gohmert is [at it again](http://www.mediaite.com/online/rep-louie-gohmert-suggests-aurora-theater-shooting-result-of-ongoing-attacks-on-judeo-christan-beliefs/), claiming the Colorado shooting was due to all those attacks on Judeo-Christian values (which apparently include Batman in some way):If only we’d prayed more, this would never have happened. Hopefully on one of these mass murder rampages, the NRA gets its wish and there are three or four fully armed “Christian” folks in the viewing audience when the firing starts. And they get the entire crowd in a cross fire and top the Virginia Tech record of a measly 32 dead. For the NRA 12 dead is just another ho hum day. People have pointed out again and again that there were armed police officers around Gabrielle Giffords when she was shot. Lots of good they did. Blazing away in crowded areas might be for amateurs, but not trained officers. I suppose it is a nice fantasy for all the budding Barney Fifes of this world. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6047 "2012-07-20T16:51:27Z")
**Bucky** , I don’t think that word “hopefully” means what you think it means. Unless you really do hope to see another mass shooting with a massive fatality count, in which case you’re using the word right, but I disagree with this desire. Can we wait a few days this time before we start calling gun rights people callous and deranged, and gun control advocates totalitarianists and fear mongers? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6048 "2012-07-20T16:59:46Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Note - not just atheists but MOST atheistic. Apparently they’ve got a sliding scale now. The top 2% are the athiest. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6049 "2012-07-20T17:26:18Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > **Bucky** , I don’t think that word “hopefully” means what you think it means. Unless you really do hope to see another mass shooting with a massive fatality count, in which case you’re using the word right, but I disagree with this desire. > > Can we wait a few days this time before we start calling gun rights people callous and deranged, and gun control advocates totalitarianists and fear mongers? I was being ironic. Opposing the NRA has become a hopeless task, even with all the dead, so irony is about all that’s left. Sometimes I get the feeling the NRA is actually happy about these events. Let me be clear. If I were in charge, the USA would have a UK or Japan type gun policy. We’d still have murders, but they’d be cut down by more than two thirds as would suicides. As it is, the second amendment is about the only bit of the Bill of Rights still in force. ---
**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 20, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6050 "2012-07-20T22:47:08Z")
Hours after last night’s shooting in Colorado, [some NRA staffer took to the American Rifleman’s Twitter feed](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/20/558271/nra-magazine-sends-insensitive-tweet-hours-after-colorado-shooting-then-deletes-social-media-accounts/)to commit what might have been one of the most tone-deaf PR moves ever; [QUOTE=@NRARifleman] Good morning, shooters. Happy Friday! Weekend plans? [/QUOTE] The magazine has since deleted its Twitter and Facebook accounts. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6051 "2012-07-20T23:30:10Z")
[Ann Romney again](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/mitt-romney-economy_b_1690224.html), this time on hiding whatever Mitt has in his tax returns: > [@](#): > > We’ve given all [that] you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life. “You people” indeed. And she’s supposed to humanize Mitt, help make him likeable? There’s a poster: “Mitt Romney gave John McCain 23 years of tax returns when he wanted to be his VP. Then McCain picked Sarah Palin. What is Mitt hiding?” ---
**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:** [July 21, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6052 "2012-07-21T03:20:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Hours after last night’s shooting in Colorado, [some NRA staffer took to the American Rifleman’s Twitter feed](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/20/558271/nra-magazine-sends-insensitive-tweet-hours-after-colorado-shooting-then-deletes-social-media-accounts/)to commit what might have been one of the most tone-deaf PR moves ever; > > The magazine has since deleted its Twitter and Facebook accounts. If the person who made the tweet simply wasn’t aware of the incident, you really can’t blame him or her for this. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6053 "2012-07-21T07:31:39Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Ann Romney again](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/mitt-romney-economy_b_1690224.html), this time on hiding whatever Mitt has in his tax returns:“You people” indeed. And she’s supposed to humanize Mitt, help make him likeable? > > There’s a poster: “Mitt Romney gave John McCain 23 years of tax returns when he wanted to be his VP. Then McCain picked Sarah Palin. What is Mitt hiding?” The part that got me was when she said “You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he’s been financially.” [Cite](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78711.html#ixzz21EwFHsQW). Yes, dearie, that’s absolutely true. We agree completely. Can we see the tax returns now so we can do just that? ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6054 "2012-07-21T08:01:01Z")
> [@Andrew Arulanandam](#): > > Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and the community. NRA will not have any further comment until all the facts are known. [Source](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/20/558271/nra-magazine-sends-insensitive-tweet-hours-after-colorado-shooting-then-deletes-social-media-accounts/). [Presaged here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ouBFh04DU). ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6055 "2012-07-22T10:29:44Z")
Darrell Issa (R-Crazyville), with his laser-like focus on jobs, jobs, jobs, “is floating legislation that would name most U.S. coastal waters after former President Ronald Reagan.” I wonder if he means the Real Ronald Reagan, the eleven-time-tax-increasing, union president guy, or the New-and-Improved-Righty Ronald Reagan who walked on water while ending taxes and creating Valhalla on Earth for the “Job Creators.” A link to an article in The Hill is contained in the Daily Kos [article](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/21/1112154/-Darrell-Issa-proposes-renaming-the-ocean-after-Ronald-Reagan). I think we’re paying Congresscritters way, way too much. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2012, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6056 "2012-07-22T11:16:02Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Darrell Issa (R-Crazyville), with his laser-like focus on jobs, jobs, jobs, “is floating legislation that would name most U.S. coastal waters after former President Ronald Reagan.” I wonder if he means the Real Ronald Reagan, the eleven-time-tax-increasing, union president guy, or the New-and-Improved-Righty Ronald Reagan who walked on water while ending taxes and creating Valhalla on Earth for the “Job Creators.” > > A link to an article in The Hill is contained in the Daily Kos [article](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/21/1112154/-Darrell-Issa-proposes-renaming-the-ocean-after-Ronald-Reagan). > > I think we’re paying Congresscritters way, way too much. I’m… not sure what that means. Would we be henceforth speaking of the East Ronald Reagan Ocean, the West Ronald Reagan Ocean, and the multiple Gulfs of Ronnie ? Lake Gipper (all five of them) ? ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6057 "2012-07-22T12:01:18Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I’m… not sure what that means. Would we be henceforth speaking of the East Ronald Reagan Ocean, the West Ronald Reagan Ocean, and the multiple Gulfs of Ronnie ? Lake Gipper (all five of them) ? It means no jobs, jobs, jobs legislation. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6058 "2012-07-22T14:32:40Z")
There’s a book out called _Tear Down This Myth_ which mentions the ongoing efforts of conservatives to name as much stuff as possible after Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6059 "2012-07-22T16:31:28Z")
Now that you mention it, how are the plans for the Grenada Invasion Memorial coming along? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6060 "2012-07-22T18:57:35Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > Can we wait a few days this time before we start calling gun rights people callous and deranged, and gun control advocates totalitarianists and fear mongers? No shit. Gun rights people are callous fear mongers, and gun control advocates are deranged totalitarianists. Get it right, people. (This post submitted on the Ronald Reagan Information Superhighway.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=302) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=304)