# 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:** 465
**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:** [April 19, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9281 "2013-04-19T17:12:22Z")
Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) [has come up with](http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/04/19/17826594-complex-issues-overly-simplistic-solutions) the solution to violence in America: > [@](#): > > "One of the things we need are parents, parents to be more careful and more repetitive at telling their kids that it is not right to kill people. It’s not even right to bully them. And it’s definitely not right for them to kill themselves. > > “Until we can get that message across to our kids, I hope that we don’t rely on a few votes by this body to make everybody feel comfortable that all the problem is taken care of.” I feel so stupid. I myself never did have “the talk” with my kids. It has just been sheer luck that they didn’t go out and kill someone out of plain rank ignorance that that sort of thing is frowned upon. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9282 "2013-04-19T17:56:01Z")
[**Senator Says Boston Attack Should Factor in Immigration Debate.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/us/politics/senator-says-boston-bombing-should-be-factor-in-immigration-debate.html?hp&_r=0) Way to mindlessly exploit a tragic event to push your own anti-immigration political agenda, Sen. Grassley, R-IA. Asshat. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9283 "2013-04-19T18:25:57Z")
Meanwhile, the increasingly-inaccurately-named Family Research Council has figured out the real reason the Boston bombings happened. [Turns out it’s because of gay marriage.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/04/19/1896971/family-group-appropriates-tragedy-to-oppose-sexual-liberalism/) ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9284 "2013-04-19T19:03:53Z")
Jeff Duncan (R-SC) [grills HSS Secretary on deportation of Saudi national](http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/gop_rep_embraces_boston_conspiracy_thoery/) - which he learned about from Drudge, among other places. Napolitano denied it, Duncan chooses to believe Drudge, Beck and Erick Erickson. And of course the non-deported Saudi wasn’t actually a terror suspect. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9285 "2013-04-19T20:14:25Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Jeff Duncan (R-SC) [grills HSS Secretary on deportation of Saudi national](http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/gop_rep_embraces_boston_conspiracy_thoery/) - which he learned about from Drudge, among other places. > > Napolitano denied it, Duncan chooses to believe Drudge, Beck and Erick Erickson. And of course the non-deported Saudi wasn’t actually a terror suspect. If you watch the video, note how Duncan keeps shifting to passive voice to avoid naming his Stupid Republican sources: “CBS reports that the gentleman was there…but it has been reported [that] he is being deported.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9286 "2013-04-19T20:16:55Z")
Well, you know, people are saying… ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9287 "2013-04-19T20:24:39Z")
Governor LePage of Maine does[not know how wind turbines work](http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/18/1892111/governor-lepage-maine-wind-turbine-runs-on-a-little-electric-motor-that-turns-the-blades/). I don’t even. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9288 "2013-04-19T20:37:03Z")
Got one of those in my yard. Powerful little fucker, makes the wind blow. I can see it spinning, go a couple blocks away, and the wind is blowing there too! I’d take it down, but I’m concerned about the global consequences. ---
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9289 "2013-04-19T20:50:49Z")
Read the article more carefully. He’s not saying that all turbines work by having electric motors blow them. He’s saying THIS turbine has an electric motor to make it look like it’s working even when it isn’t, to be impressive and sabotage the oil industry with bogus wind farms that can’t actually power anything. He’s an entirely different breed of stupid than you identified him. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9290 "2013-04-19T20:59:12Z")
So he’s not stupid; he’s a lying sack of shit. That makes me feel better. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9291 "2013-04-19T21:05:13Z")
That would be kind of interesting. I mean, do exactly that, set up a wind turbine that turns when there is no wind, and see how long before somebody catches on. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9292 "2013-04-19T22:13:06Z")
Well, he was right about one thing: > [@](#): > > Unbelievable. And that’s the government that you have here in the state of Maine. After all, Mr. LePage _is_ the governor. ---
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9293 "2013-04-20T00:13:40Z")
Have we mentioned Nate Bell of Arkansas in this thread yet? [Nate Bell](http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/arkansas-state-rep-nate-bell-apologizes-cowering-boston-l), ladies and gentlemen. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9294 "2013-04-20T00:23:29Z")
He apologized … for the “poor choice of timing.” You see, it’s not that he doesn’t think all those Boston libs are a bunch of nancies, he just should have waited a little while before tweeting it. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9295 "2013-04-20T00:28:04Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > After all, Mr. LePage _is_ the governor. With a resounding 38.1% mandate. Maine has too strong a trend of independents who rarely accomplish anything but cause election losses by the nominees of the party they more closely identify with. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9296 "2013-04-20T00:30:00Z")
Yep. LePage got Nadered in, running against a Democrat and an independent. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9297 "2013-04-20T00:31:52Z")
The Dem and \*three \*indies. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9298 "2013-04-20T01:36:28Z")
When it comes to funny quotes, Mr Lepage is your man. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9299 "2013-04-20T18:47:22Z")
Rep. Steve Stockman [makes a funny about the Boston tragedy](http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/20/1898681/during-standoff-gop-congressman-tweets-global-warming-joke-about-boston-marathon-bomber/). Yes, that IS pretty humorous. ---
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9300 "2013-04-20T19:03:42Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Rep. Steve Stockman [makes a funny about the Boston tragedy](http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/20/1898681/during-standoff-gop-congressman-tweets-global-warming-joke-about-boston-marathon-bomber/). Yes, that IS pretty humorous. Is this a whoosh? I mean, climate change denial is stupid and evil, but as far as such denials go, this one was actually pretty funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=464) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=466)