# 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:** 433
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8641 "2013-02-11T20:41:05Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Ted Nugent to attend State of the Union Address as guest of Congressman Steve Stockton, R-TX. [Ted Nugent Headed To State Of The Union As Guest Of Texas Congressman Steve Stockman | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/ted-nugent-state-of-the-union_n_2663651.html) Please, let him yell out, “Suck on my machine gun, Obama!” pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease! ---
**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:** [February 11, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8642 "2013-02-11T20:46:59Z")
If only we could get Ted to give the official GOP response. BTW, we’re still counting the days until Ted ends up “dead or in jail”. A year from last April, wasn’t it? Maybe this is part of his plan to make it happen. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8643 "2013-02-11T21:44:26Z")
Are congresscritters _allowed_ to have guests at the SOTU? Also, can we stop calling him the Motor City Madman now that he won’t go within 50 miles of _any_ city? ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8644 "2013-02-11T21:50:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Today on ABC, GOP congressman and Derplahoman Tom Cole attempted to push the latest Republican talking point that the upcoming sequester cuts were Obama’s idea and that he’s responsible for him. > > The wind was taken out of his sails somewhat when his fellow guest, Keith Ellison, reminded Cole that [he himself voted yes on the bill to establish the sequester.](http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/10/1567251/democratic-congressman-destroys-gop-hypocrisy-on-looming-budget-cuts/) On that same show, a GOP strategist asserted that Marco Rubio is “modern” because he “knows who Tupac is.” Tupac died.over 16 years ago. If.you tell me someone is modern because they know of someone from a generation ago, I’m going to wonder about your definition of modern. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8645 "2013-02-11T22:18:29Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > If.you tell me someone is modern because they know of someone from a generation ago, I’m going to wonder about your definition of modern. Modern is a generation ago. The current generation is post-modern. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8646 "2013-02-11T22:22:41Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Modern is a generation ago. The current generation is post-modern. Yes. Nothing is identified by what it is anymore, only by what it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8647 "2013-02-11T22:35:29Z")
Former FBI agent insists nominee for CIA director John Brennan is a [secret Muslim](http://www.salon.com/2013/02/10/john_brennan_is_a_secret_muslim_says_anti_islam_activist/): > [@](#): > > On Friday, John Guandolo, the vice president of the Virginia-based Strategic Engagement Group (SEG), appeared on the Boca Raton-based radio show of Tom Trento, the president of the anti-”Shariah Islam” group The United West, formerly the Florida Security Council. Guandolo described how Brennan has supposedly “interwoven his life professionally and personally with individuals that we know are terrorists and he has given them access” to top officials in the federal government and “brought known Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood leaders into the government and into advisory positions.” > > Guandolo continued that what “some would say is most disturbing, Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on behalf of the United States when he served in Saudi Arabia” and it “was the culmination of a counterintelligence operation against him to recruit him” by foreign operatives. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8648 "2013-02-12T00:22:19Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Former FBI agent insists nominee for CIA director John Brennan is a [secret Muslim](http://www.salon.com/2013/02/10/john_brennan_is_a_secret_muslim_says_anti_islam_activist/): > [@](#): > > Guandolo once said that Muslims “do not have a First Amendment right to do anything.” It’s a good thing this Anti-American bastard no longer works for the government. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8649 "2013-02-12T19:16:09Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > The only good thing about this is that Ted Nugent will have to hear all of Obama’s address, but I doubt his attention span can last the 30 or minutes these addresses tend to last. Nothing says “I love America” like a having a draft-dodging, pedophile, gun-nut on your arm, Steve! Oh no, can’t call him a pedophile. Even though he called himself that at one point. Fact of the matter is (as Bricker pointed out in excruciating detail in another thread), at the time he marred Pele Massa, the legal age of consent in Hawaii was 14. Best I can tell, no evidence they ever fucked outside of that state. Though I’d love to find some. Ed: For purposes of having another appellate to label Ted with of course, mere testimony is all that is sought. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8650 "2013-02-12T20:05:32Z")
“Courtney Love phoned into “The Howard Stern Show” on Monday (March 22, 2004) before eventually coming into the studio where she made the shocking allegation that one of the first times she had oral sex was with Ted Nugent. She said she was young and she didn’t want to say exactly how old she was, but eventually confessed she was 12-year-old — which would have made Nugent approximately 28 years old at the time. The New York Post attempted to contact Nugent for a response but was unsuccessful. Moderators at Nugent’s official forum deleted the only thread asking about the topic as evidenced by the forum’s search giving a file not found error for the matched thread. She added it was a long time ago and she didn’t even have breasts yet.” ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8651 "2013-02-12T22:29:16Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Your link didn’t work for me, but [this one](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fairfax-homeowners-group-humbled-by-court-battle-with-residents/2013/02/09/d46f9bec-6652-11e2-93e1-475791032daf_story.html) does. I don’t really see how that qualifies as an SRIOTD in any event. Having been on the wrong end of an abysmally stupid HOA dispute before, I was rooting for the couple with the Obama sign before I read that link. Now that I’ve read it, they sound like assholes, and my sympathy is for their neighbors. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8652 "2013-02-13T00:46:56Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Former FBI agent insists nominee for CIA director John Brennan is a [secret Muslim](http://www.salon.com/2013/02/10/john_brennan_is_a_secret_muslim_says_anti_islam_activist/): I looked him up because I didn’t remember him suffering from unfortunate blackness, but no, he’s still the pasty-faced Irishman I remember from the Bush administration. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8653 "2013-02-13T03:35:58Z")
Everything Marco Rubio is saying right now is a stupid republican idea…in other words, a lie. I’m literally filled with nausea. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8654 "2013-02-13T03:42:20Z")
LOL going for his water. Looked like Boehner had vodka in his glass. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8655 "2013-02-13T04:32:52Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > Looked like Boehner had vodka in his glass. Looked to me like he was getting a surreptitious prostate exam. Without lube. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8656 "2013-02-13T04:42:47Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Looked to me like he was getting a surreptitious prostate exam. Without lube. That’s why he needed the vodka. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8657 "2013-02-13T18:40:10Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Sweet fuck, [AGAIN WITH THE VAGINAL ULTRASOUND CRAP.](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/michigan-republicans-introduce-bill-mandating-transvaginal-ultrasound-before-abortion.php) And this time it’s is my home state. Michigan really is trying to become the buttcrack of the Midwest. What gets me is how they’re always going on and on about the fetal heartbeat. OK, it has one. That doesn’t mean things are all okey-dokey. Do the people who draft these proposals ever think about the fact that there can be severe birth defects and that sometimes they don’t show up until late in the pregnancy? > **[Why This Woman Chose Abortion—at 29 Weeks](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/late-term-abortion-29-weeks-dana-weinstein/)** > > Dana Weinstein’s fetus could have died after birth or been very severely disabled. Yet the GOP still wants to force women like her to carry to term. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8658 "2013-02-13T18:51:19Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > LOL going for his water. Looked like Boehner had vodka in his glass. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BmEDoA3YnOM/maxresdefault.jpg "The funniest drink of water in world history") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmEDoA3YnOM) The WAPO did a good job shooting down his contention that big government was the root cause of the mortgage crisis. Here: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/13/no-marco-rubio-government-did-not-cause-the-housing-crisis/](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/13/no-marco-rubio-government-did-not-cause-the-housing-crisis/) Rubio will go the way of Jindal. Tried and failed on the national stage. IMO, the GOP should have trotted out Boehner. He’s at least the most powerful Republican in Washington - outside of the Supreme Court. And he knows the status of discussions with the White House. Clearly not insane enough for the teahadists, however. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8659 "2013-02-13T18:55:47Z")
Jesus. Imagine if he dehydrated in the middle of a speech? Tumbleweeds would shoot out of his tear ducts. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8660 "2013-02-13T19:10:53Z")
I think Biden should give the next televised speech and start eating an enormous hoagie in the middle of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=432) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=434)