# 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:** 362
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7221 "2012-10-11T19:35:54Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Somehow, this story seems like the Platonic ideal of this thread: > > One comment on the story notes: Good thing the cop wasn’t a Republican or she might have gone on top of the car. Oh, that’s just kind of sad. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7222 "2012-10-11T20:06:08Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > There is _a_ doctor who’s been pushing the theory for years but IIRC Akin got hos “information” from an anti-abortion pamphlet. Hey! Who you callin’ a ho? :dubious: ---
**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:** [October 11, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7223 "2012-10-11T20:40:44Z")
In their zeal to embarrass Obama, GOPers reveal the location of a CIA base in Libya On CSPAN, no less. > [@](#): > > When House Republicans called a hearing in the middle of their long recess, you knew it would be something big, and indeed it was: They accidentally blew the CIA’s cover. > > The purpose of Wednesday’s hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee was to examine security lapses that led to the killing in Benghazi last month of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others. But in doing so, the lawmakers reminded us why “congressional intelligence” is an oxymoron. > > Through their outbursts, cryptic language and boneheaded questioning of State Department officials, the committee members left little doubt that one of the two compounds at which the Americans were killed, described by the administration as a “consulate” and a nearby “annex,” was a CIA base. They did this, helpfully, in a televised public hearing. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-letting-us-in-on-a-secret/2012/10/10/ba3136ca-132b-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7\_story.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-letting-us-in-on-a-secret/2012/10/10/ba3136ca-132b-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html) ---
**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:** [October 11, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7224 "2012-10-11T20:55:22Z")
And - they keep finding them. **Some girls rape easy** > [@](#): > > By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel > > Madison - A state representative is drawing heat for saying that his father had told him when he was young that “some girls rape easy” as a way to warn him that a woman could agree to sex but then later claim that it wasn’t consensual. > > Freshman Rep. Roger Rivard (R-Rice Lake) in December discussed a case with the Chetek Alert newspaper in which a 17-year-old high school senior was charged with sexual assault for having sex with an underage girl in the school’s band room. > > The newspaper quoted him as saying his father warned him, “Some girls rape easy” - meaning that after the fact they can change what they say about whether sex was consensual. On Wednesday, Rivard told the Journal Sentinel that the article did not provide full context of his comments and that his father’s exact words had been slightly different from how they appeared in the Chetek Alert. > **[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee and Wisconsin breaking news and...](https://www.jsonline.com/)** > > Milwaukee and Wisconsin news, sports, business, opinion, entertainment, lifestyle and investigative reporting from the Journal Sentinel and JSOnline.com. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7225 "2012-10-11T21:49:19Z")
Remember Mia Love? She’s the mayor of a small town in Utah who was unexplicably (not really) given a prime time speaking slot at the Republican Convention, and hailed as a rising star in the party. As it turns out, she is one of the people Republicans hate the most, an anchor baby. > [@](#): > > Congressional candidate Mia Love says she doesn’t remember telling a Deseret News reporter that her birth in 1975 was her immigrant family’s ticket to freedom. > > Well I remember her telling it. I was that reporter. > [@](#): > > She went on to explain that her birth in a Brooklyn hospital on Dec. 5, 1975, came just 26 days before an immigration law allowing her parents to remain in the country if they had a child in America would have expired. > > “They would have had to go back to Haiti,” said Mia that day. “My parents have always told me I was a miracle and our family’s ticket to America.” > > I have it in my transcribed notes from that interview in case anyone would like to review them. > > Mia Love apparently doesn’t want to. I called and emailed her repeatedly last week but to no avail. She never got back to me. [http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765609953/Mia-Loves-amnesia-raises-some-concerns.html?pg=all&fb\_action\_ids=10151197781919127&fb\_action\_types](http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765609953/Mia-Loves-amnesia-raises-some-concerns.html?pg=all&fb_action_ids=10151197781919127&fb_action_types) It’ll be interesting to see how high this “star” rises now. This is in the Deseret News, the Mormon Church’s in-house newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7226 "2012-10-11T22:31:34Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > In their zeal to embarrass Obama, GOPers reveal the location of a CIA base in Libya > > On CSPAN, no less. > > [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-letting-us-in-on-a-secret/2012/10/10/ba3136ca-132b-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7\_story.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-letting-us-in-on-a-secret/2012/10/10/ba3136ca-132b-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html) To be fair, the Libyans had already\* found\* the base. They just didn’t know it was a CIA base. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7227 "2012-10-11T23:18:46Z")
[From the party that never met a regulation they wouldn’t call a job-killer](http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061166547). > [@](#): > > “The administration made the decision that having access to cheap drugs is more important than the assurances of safety and efficacy from the FDA,” said Sheldon Bradshaw, the FDA’s senior legal counsel in the George W. Bush administration who now works as a Washington lawyer representing corporations regulated by the FDA. > … > Boston University law professor Kevin Outterson noted c **ompounding pharmacies were relieved of some regulation in 2002** , when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law regulating them … Anyone who knows about medical products regulation in the U.S., or even followed the User Fee Re-authorization bill this summer, will appreciate how ridiculous Bradshaw’s statement is. Every one else should at least remember [who was president in 2002.](http://www.google.com/imgres?q=george+w.+bush&um=1&hl=en&gl=us&biw=1330&bih=693&tbm=isch&tbnid=mCUaYYYHhtCDkM:&imgrefurl=http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewbush&docid=4MOe4YgbNBbDLM&imgurl=http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/first-family/masthead_image/43gb_header_sm.jpg%253F1250888303&w=450&h=254&ei=e1N3UOGID4SF0QGxwYCwDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=282&vpy=203&dur=476&hovh=169&hovw=299&tx=128&ty=110&sig=111781406145859150172&page=1&tbnh=103&tbnw=183&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:152) And does anyone really think “a Washington lawyer representing corporations regulated by the FDA” would make an honest statement about the agency? (Okay, no-one else cares about this one.) ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7228 "2012-10-12T00:22:14Z")
I bet the grieving families of 12 dead people care. I bet they care very much. Or would if they knew whose fault it was. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7229 "2012-10-12T01:21:56Z")
Roger Hedgecock, broadcasting a right-wing diatribe daily on San Diego’s KFMB (he has also been Rush Limbaugh’s replacement guest host several times) today (10/11/12) said that the improved unemployment figures announced by the administration were bogus, because they didn’t count California. The state had failed to report its labor statistics, so the figures were released without California’s contribution to the overall unemployment total. Now, I don’t know for absolute certain that he’s lying… But I’ll bet a pickle that the idea is totally bogus. Pants on fire, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7230 "2012-10-12T01:22:43Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > I bet the grieving families of 12 dead people care. I bet they care very much. Or would if they knew whose fault it was. Yes, of course, I did not mean to be callous to the bereaved. There is another group of people who care, employees at medical product companies that strive to comply with regulations and manufacture safe and effective products. We are no great lovers of regulatory agencies for the most part, but we are honest about their authority and responsibilities. If anything, we argue they have less they exert, not more. As for who is responsible, Barack Obama, Margaret Hamburg, and Kathleen Sebellius were not running that manufacturing facility. Don’t make me defend Sebellius. (I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the rest of the country for my state.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7231 "2012-10-12T02:51:30Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > …Now, I don’t know for absolute certain that he’s lying… But I’ll bet a pickle that the idea is totally bogus. Pants on fire, anyone? And this guy was the only person who noticed? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7232 "2012-10-12T03:35:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > And this guy was the only person who noticed? Apparently not; I Googled, and found [several cites such as this one…](http://conservativebyte.com/2012/10/oops-one-large-state-didnt-report-some-quarterly-figures/) Thing is, I’m not so sure I can depend on a source like “Conservativebyte.” I’m not succeeding in finding a (so to speak) fair and balanced source for this. My opinion is that it’s a load of dingos’ kidneys, and that the BLS is about as honest and competent as any big government agency (how’s that for damning with faint praise?) But, c’mon, if California were left out, wouldn’t the unemployment rate have dropped to something like 4%? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7233 "2012-10-12T05:23:27Z")
When the hell did conservatives ever give a fuck about California? ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7234 "2012-10-12T06:14:36Z")
A bunch of them live here, actually. They poured a lot of effort into forcing out Grey Davis and electing Schwarzenegger, and for their efforts they got a Democrat supermajority in our legislature and Governor Moonbeam: First Blood Part 2. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7235 "2012-10-12T06:27:45Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > When the hell did conservatives ever give a fuck about California? Oh, God (oh God oh God oh God!) they have orgasms over California. The state is their poster child for attacking government services, tax rates, environmental laws, and immigration policy. They cream their jeans whenever anything bad happens to this highly blue state. California’s perennial budget crisis proves (to their satisfaction) that taxes are bad, regulations are bad, welfare is bad, and immigrants are bad. If it weren’t for CA, they’d only have MA to sneer at. I more than halfway suspect the current oil price spike in CA is deliberately engineered to punish us for our 100.0 per cent chance of going for Obama (per Nate Silver) in the electoral college. (100.0 per cent! Dang! I wish I could find an investment that secure!) ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7236 "2012-10-12T06:57:14Z")
> [@SanibelMan](#): > > He later sent a letter to The Progressive attacking them for misrepresenting him: > > The Title and Subtitle of what was put on the Progressive Website read, “Meet a Romney Extremist in Virginia - A staffer in a Romney campaign office wants to execute parents on welfare and give their kids up for adoption.” > > I did not say that I wanted to execute parents on welfare and give their kids up for adoption. > > I said that it would be better to execute the parents of an illegitimate child and put their child up for adoption. Oh, well then… _mea culpa_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7237 "2012-10-12T12:07:27Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > Remember Mia Love? She’s the mayor of a small town in Utah who was unexplicably (not really) given a prime time speaking slot at the Republican Convention, and hailed as a rising star in the party. As it turns out, she is one of the people Republicans hate the most, an anchor baby. > > [http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765609953/Mia-Loves-amnesia-raises-some-concerns.html?pg=all&fb\_action\_ids=10151197781919127&fb\_action\_types](http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765609953/Mia-Loves-amnesia-raises-some-concerns.html?pg=all&fb_action_ids=10151197781919127&fb_action_types) > > It’ll be interesting to see how high this “star” rises now. > > This is in the Deseret News, the Mormon Church’s in-house newspaper. Just a nitpick here – calling the [pi]Deseret News\* the “Mormon In-House Newspaper” goes a bit far. It’s one of two Salt Lake papers intended as standard news. It IS owned by the Church, but it was never intended to be strictly within-the-church news, like the Catholic newspaper we got when I was a kid. You might as well call the _Christian Science Monitor_ the CS “in-house newspaper”, but I doubt if anyione would. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7238 "2012-10-12T14:22:17Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > My opinion is that it’s a load of dingos’ kidneys, and that the BLS is about as honest and competent as any big government agency (how’s that for damning with faint praise?) But, c’mon, if California were left out, wouldn’t the unemployment rate have dropped to something like 4%? California has the second-highest unemployment rate, but it’s not that high: [10.6%](http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm). There is a state missing from the jobs report, but it’s [not California](http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/10/12/california-says-its-not-the-mystery-large-state-that-skewed-claims-data/). ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7239 "2012-10-12T15:02:43Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > A bunch of them live here, actually. They poured a lot of effort into forcing out Grey Davis and electing Schwarzenegger, and for their efforts they got a Democrat supermajority in our legislature and Governor Moonbeam: First Blood Part 2. I think Governor Moonbeam would make an excellent band name, and “First Blood Part 2” sounds like the name of a concept album about “the woman problem.” ---
**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:** [October 12, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7240 "2012-10-12T15:16:09Z")
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