# 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:** 411
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8201 "2013-01-15T15:57:51Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > [Link](http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/01/14/texas-rep-threatens-obama-with-impeachment/). > > Who had bets on early January? It’s not early January anymore, it’s the Ides Of Jan. “Oh Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.” ---
**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:** [January 15, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8202 "2013-01-15T16:06:42Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > We begin with what seems to be [a heartwarming story](http://www.tampabay.com/news/bizarre/after-2010-campaign-gov-rick-scott-gave-back-dog-reagan/1270497) indicating that even crossing Gollum with Voldemort can’t eradicate every good impulse… > > …or can it? > > Upon further probing, it was discovered that the dog was returned not long after Governor Scott settled in to his new digs, apparently because [it kept barking at him](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilDetectingDog). I’ll have you know that this post nearly killed me. I’ve got the sick that’s going around along with deep, down mucus and the rales that come with it. Laughing in this state can be fatal. I only just made it back from the choking edge. ---
**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 15, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8203 "2013-01-15T17:19:52Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > We begin with what seems to be [a heartwarming story](http://www.tampabay.com/news/bizarre/after-2010-campaign-gov-rick-scott-gave-back-dog-reagan/1270497) indicating that even crossing Gollum with Voldemort can’t eradicate every good impulse… > > …or can it? > > Upon further probing, it was discovered that the \*\*dog was returned \*\*not long after Governor Scott settled in to his new digs, apparently because [it kept barking at him](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilDetectingDog). We’ve pitted people here for ditching their pets. Some years ago we took in a petite female golden. The family said they were moving to a neighborhood in or near Atlanta that didn’t allow large dogs. (she was under 45 pounds at seven months old.) We soon realized that the real reason they’d dumped her was that she was not house broken. We crated her and spent significant amounts of time with her in our fenced in back yard to little avail as she would pee in the house once or twice a week. We never even considered ridding ourselves of the dog. My wife finally realized that, unlike normal dogs who barked or scratched at the door, she got all lovey-dovey with us when she needed to go out. So over the last eight years she’s been an honorable dog, even holding it when we spent twelve hours away at a wedding one day. But those first couple of months . . . BTW, the monks at New Skete would have been able to solve the barking problem. The dog had its reasons for barking. Maybe Scott was evil, but more likely the dog either wanted him to stop vote suppression efforts or shut off some electronic device that was painful to doggie ears. Some people, apparently Ricky Scott, have too little empathy and patience. ---
**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 15, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8204 "2013-01-15T17:38:33Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > We begin with what seems to be [a heartwarming story](http://www.tampabay.com/news/bizarre/after-2010-campaign-gov-rick-scott-gave-back-dog-reagan/1270497) indicating that even crossing Gollum with Voldemort can’t eradicate every good impulse… > > …or can it? > > Upon further probing, it was discovered that the dog was returned not long after Governor Scott settled in to his new digs, apparently because [it kept barking at him](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilDetectingDog). How exactly does one “adopt” or “rescue” a dog from a pet store? Isn’t the proper term “purchase”? > [@](#): > > After learning that Times reporters had talked to the governor, a spokeswoman called to say Reagan had been returned about a year ago to All Pets Grooming and Boarding, a business in Naples. How in fuck did you people in Florida ever elect this guy??? 😕 Was the other candidate a guy who dressed like Hitler and sacrificed babies at press conferences? Or maybe the other candidate was Bigfoot? WTF??? ---
**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 15, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8205 "2013-01-15T17:43:34Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > [Link](http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/01/14/texas-rep-threatens-obama-with-impeachment/). > > Who had bets on early January? Maybe we need an impeachment pool over the second term. The rules might be a bit complex, however. For example, do we count the number of Congress-critters threatening impeachment , the number of supposed “crimes”, or the “crime-critter” number? Does there need to be an actual move toward impeachment? How many months this year will a leading teahadist talk about impeachment or when will the actual first papers be filed? (Remember, this one was just a threat.) Will there be an actual impeachment vote in the House? If it passes how many hours 'til the Senate shoots it down? rules-rules-rules ---
**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 15, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8206 "2013-01-15T17:45:59Z")
The other guy was [a girl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Sink), and it was an election where Republicans won just about everything in the state. They could have nominated the _actual_ Voldemort for the office and taken it. ---
**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 15, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8207 "2013-01-15T18:17:19Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > We begin with what seems to be [a heartwarming story](http://www.tampabay.com/news/bizarre/after-2010-campaign-gov-rick-scott-gave-back-dog-reagan/1270497) indicating that even crossing Gollum with Voldemort can’t eradicate every good impulse… > > …or can it? > > Upon further probing, it was discovered that the dog was returned not long after Governor Scott settled in to his new digs, apparently because [it kept barking at him](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilDetectingDog). There’s a story not being told here. The old dog wasn’t _affectionate_ enough. The new dog is much more, er, loving. Yeah, that’s the ticket! From the linked story: > [@](#): > > … "If you do a push-up, he wants to be underneath you as you do a push-up. He’s a sweet dog,‘’ Scott said. Yeah, he wants to be underneath men doing push-ups. No wonder the gov loves the new dog, in every possible way! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8208 "2013-01-15T18:18:22Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > How in fuck did you people in Florida ever elect this guy??? 😕 > > Was the other candidate a guy who dressed like Hitler and sacrificed babies at press conferences? Or maybe the other candidate was Bigfoot? WTF??? The other guy was sane. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8209 "2013-01-15T19:19:15Z")
Rick Scott is a piece of shit. I can understand the dog not working in his household–it happens. What I cannot understand is a person with Scott’s resources sending the dog to a shelter. Shelters are brutally overwhelmed–six out of ten dogs who go in aren’t coming out. With his broad circle of acquaintance, he would have had no problem finding a home for this dog. Instead, he kicked the problem to an agency. Fucking hypocrite. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8210 "2013-01-15T21:20:47Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > How in fuck did you people in Florida ever elect this guy??? 😕 > > Was the other candidate a guy who dressed like Hitler and sacrificed babies at press conferences? Or maybe the other candidate was Bigfoot? WTF??? Don’t blame me! I was out of town that week! In Juarez opening a bordello or something. But definitely out of town. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8211 "2013-01-15T21:48:27Z")
If/when the pubbies cause the US to default, who gets to pick which departments/services are shut down and which ones continue to operate? Can the capitol building be sold off to the Chinese? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8212 "2013-01-15T21:54:10Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > If/when the pubbies cause the US to default, who gets to pick which departments/services are shut down and which ones continue to operate? > > Can the capitol building be sold off to the Chinese? Provided they remove it from the premises and ship it to Beijing, contents intact, including biologicals… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8213 "2013-01-16T03:21:32Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > If/when the pubbies cause the US to default, who gets to pick which departments/services are shut down and which ones continue to operate? > > Can the capitol building be sold off to the Chinese? > [@jayjay](#): > > Provided they remove it from the premises and ship it to Beijing, contents intact, including biologicals… Personally, I’d pay a higher price if they fumigated it first. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2013, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8214 "2013-01-16T10:39:53Z")
I learn from Jon Stewart – one of the best newsmen on American TV – that Justice Clarence Thomas finally broke _seven years of silence on the SCOTUS bench_ with … [QUOTE=Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States] Well, he did not … [/QUOTE] (Perhaps this doesn’t belong in this thread. The once-in-seven-years utterance appears incomplete, so may not be testable for stupidity.) ---
**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 16, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8215 "2013-01-16T13:16:20Z")
**Republicans Accuse Obama of Using Position as President to Lead Country** (Sounds like The Onion, but it’s the New Yorker.) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Responding to reports that President Obama is considering signing as many as nineteen executive orders on gun control, Republicans in Congress unleashed a blistering attack on him today, accusing Mr. Obama of “cynically and systematically using his position as President to lead the country.” > > Spearheading the offensive was Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), who charged the President with the “wanton exploitation of powers that are legally granted to him under the U.S. Constitution.” > > Calling him the “Law Professor-in-Chief,” Rep. Stockman accused Mr. Obama of “manipulating a little-known section of the Constitution,” Article II, which outlines the power of the President. Read more: [Republicans Accuse Obama of Using Position as President to Lead Country | The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/01/republicans-accuse-obama-of-using-position-as-president-to-lead-country.html#ixzz2I8yzKOpI) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8216 "2013-01-16T13:19:45Z")
I seldom LOL, but this is hilarious! 😃 ---
**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:** [January 16, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8217 "2013-01-16T14:12:21Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > **Republicans Accuse Obama of Using Position as President to Lead Country** > (Sounds like The Onion, but it’s the New Yorker.) > > Read more: [Republicans Accuse Obama of Using Position as President to Lead Country | The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/01/republicans-accuse-obama-of-using-position-as-president-to-lead-country.html#ixzz2I8yzKOpI) I’m pretty sure that’s still satire, even though it’s not from the Onion. Note the “Keywords humor” at the bottom of the page. But yeah, I believed it at first too. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8218 "2013-01-16T14:38:33Z")
Yeah, Borowitz is a satire columnist, not a straight reporter. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8219 "2013-01-16T16:06:17Z")
Thus am I served by Poe’s Law. I found the linked article completely plausible. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8220 "2013-01-16T17:21:33Z")
The NRA is now saying that it is “hypocritical” of Obama to want gun-free schools, while providing armed protection for his daughters. :rolleyes: If any response was even necessary, I would ask of any NRA member: how many people doing your job have been assassinated? How many death threats do you get in your mail every day? I didn’t think so. STFU. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=410) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=412)