# 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:** 407
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8121 "2013-01-10T09:31:00Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > The Club for Growths Ha. One Million Doms. ---
**Author:** ![Saipowercontols](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Saipowercontols](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saipowercontols)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8122 "2013-01-10T09:31:14Z")
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8123 "2013-01-10T09:32:37Z")
Reported. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8124 "2013-01-10T10:03:32Z")
> [@Saipowercontols](#): > > Sri Sai Ram Power Controls -Our dry type transformers are widely used across various industries to automatically control the timing of the electrical appliances. They’re more than meets the eye, I hear. ---
**Author:** ![bmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@bmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmes)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8125 "2013-01-10T11:18:21Z")
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**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:** [January 10, 2013, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8126 "2013-01-10T11:24:06Z")
Gaah! They’re invading! Also reported. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8127 "2013-01-10T11:29:15Z")
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**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:** [January 10, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8128 "2013-01-10T15:13:25Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > They’re more than meets the eye, I hear. Reported this post 'cause it reposts the spamminess. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8129 "2013-01-10T17:53:56Z")
I just assumed they’d take out posts #8119 to #8122 (or, now #8124). ---
**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:** [January 11, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8130 "2013-01-11T01:13:01Z")
Deadbeat dad and (thankfully) former congressman Joe Walsh is now[telling people to be prepared for “bloodshed”](http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/01/10/1429391/joe-walsh-obamacare/) in order to stop Obamacara. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8131 "2013-01-11T02:47:06Z")
The Tea Party Weathermen? No, no, gotta call themselves the Sons of Liberty. Maybe, like the Weathermen, they’ll mostly just blow their asses up trying to make bombs. Course, the Weathermen didn’t have the experience of cooking meth. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8132 "2013-01-11T02:56:58Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Deadbeat dad and (thankfully) former congressman Joe Walsh is now[telling people to be prepared for “bloodshed”](http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/01/10/1429391/joe-walsh-obamacare/) in order to stop Obamacara. What sort of civil disobedience could people actually take against the PPACA? Stage a sit-in at their insurance company until their rates are adjusted upwards to take their pre-existing conditions into account? Force random people under twenty-six to purchase their own health insurance instead of remaining on their parents plans? Refuse to ever cash the reimbursement checks from their insurance companies when their plan puts under 85% of its premium payments towards medical expenses? ---
**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:** [January 11, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8133 "2013-01-11T03:03:30Z")
It sounds as though the reference to “bloodshed” is about gun laws, which is _slightly_ less stupid. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2013, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8134 "2013-01-11T11:07:52Z")
They _would_ have an armed uprising to protest Obamacare but their health insurance doesn’t cover bullet wounds. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8135 "2013-01-11T17:37:30Z")
Some Republicans still won’t let go of “[legitimate rape](http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/11/16465141-gop-congressman-akins-rape-comments-were-partly-right?lite).” \*A Georgia Republican congressman said that former Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, R, was “partly right” in asserting that victims of “legitimate rape” rarely become pregnant. Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., a former obstetrician-gynecologist, said at a town hall meeting that Akin was “partly right” in his controversial suggestion, which was widely cited as a factor in his loss to Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, D, this past November.\* ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8136 "2013-01-11T17:38:06Z")
Jesus fuck, there’s still people [DEFENDING TODD AKIN!](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/phil-gingrey-todd-akin_n_2456435.html) > [@](#): > > "…then he went on and said that in a situation of rape, of a legitimate rape, a woman’s body has a way of shutting down so the pregnancy would not occur. He’s partly right on that. … > And I’ve delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, “Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don’t be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.” So he was partially right wasn’t he? " NO, dammit. NO, that is in fact completely wrong, and insulting, you dumb shit. And I hope you get torn apart for it the way Akin did. ETA: Ninja’d, darn it, but I had the money quote. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8137 "2013-01-11T17:42:30Z")
Related [GQ thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=678608). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8138 "2013-01-11T17:45:00Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Jesus fuck, there’s still people [DEFENDING TODD AKIN!](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/phil-gingrey-todd-akin_n_2456435.html) > > NO, dammit. NO, that is in fact completely wrong, and insulting, you dumb shit. And I hope you get torn apart for it the way Akin did. > ETA: Ninja’d, darn it, but I had the money quote. The, er, “relevant” part of the quote is: > [@](#): > > "… But the fact that a woman may have already ovulated 12 hours before she is raped, you’re not going to prevent a pregnancy there by a woman’s body shutting anything down because the horse has already left the barn, so to speak. And yet the media took that and tore it apart.” There is simply no logical connection between this and Akin’s statement. There is an outright admission that if a woman is fertile at the time she is raped, her body does NOT “shut down” to prevent it. So the only right part of the claim is that sometimes women who weren’t raped later claim to have been raped. Duh. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8139 "2013-01-11T17:53:05Z")
On the contrary - I present evidence that Republicans are [very concerned indeed](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257867/Charles-Krauthammer-praises-John-Boehner-blocking-larger-relief-Hurricane-Sandy-victims.html) about preventing rape. > [@](#): > > Influential conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer has praised Republican House Speaker John Boehner for preventing a ‘rape of the Treasury’ by blocking a larger relief bill for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. > > […] > Speaking on Fox News’ Special Report on Friday, Krauthammer claimed that Boehner had done the right thing. ‘I think what Boehner did in postponing the vote until today was absolutely right,’ he said. > > ‘That was a rape of the Treasury. $60 billion, including a ton of pork. The part that was essential that passed today was to replenish the flood insurance. That’s right, and the rest ought to be debated in regular order.’ Personally I think the Treasury was asking for it. After all, it has a reputation for “quantitative easing” if you know what I mean. And it loves the pork, amirite? ---
**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:** [January 11, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8140 "2013-01-11T17:59:45Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > On the contrary - I present evidence that Republicans are [very concerned indeed](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257867/Charles-Krauthammer-praises-John-Boehner-blocking-larger-relief-Hurricane-Sandy-victims.html) about preventing rape. > > * * * > > Personally I think the Treasury was asking for it. After all, it has a reputation for “quantitative easing” if you know what I mean. And it loves the pork, amirite? I read an article in today’s Newsday about people whose subsidized motel stays will end on Sunday January 13. Some infirm and elderly might literally be out on the street that night. Bad enough that they had to spend Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day in a temporary shelter, but to get kicked out in January is scary. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=406) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=408)