# 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:** 477
**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:** [May 24, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9521 "2013-05-24T14:16:53Z")
Whoah, an Indian appellate judge. Yay us. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9522 "2013-05-24T21:15:31Z")
Vacancies weren’t meant to be filled by Democrats! It’s in the constitution! Only republicans can fill vacancies. ERgggg ---
**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:** [May 25, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9523 "2013-05-25T21:01:42Z")
**FUCK YOU Louie Gohmert - brainless and heartless asshole.** [http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/24/republican-louie-gohmert-tells-woman-she-should-have-been-forced-to-carry-her-brain-dead-fetus-to-term-video/](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/24/republican-louie-gohmert-tells-woman-she-should-have-been-forced-to-carry-her-brain-dead-fetus-to-term-video/) This idiot probably deserved a separate pitting for this, but I’m sure he’s already had his share of them. > [@](#): > > During a Thursday House panel hearing about H.R. 1797, a fetal pain bill being pushed at the federal level by Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, Gohmert cruelly told a woman testifying against the bill that she should have been forced to carry her brain dead fetus to term and watch it die while her family suffered financially from the hospital bills. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9524 "2013-05-26T01:41:15Z")
Wow. Just…no words for that… ---
**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:** [May 26, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9525 "2013-05-26T01:58:29Z")
If we let women abort their braindead babies, then the Ottomans win. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9526 "2013-05-26T14:16:16Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > **FUCK YOU Louie Gohmert - brainless and heartless asshole.** > > [http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/24/republican-louie-gohmert-tells-woman-she-should-have-been-forced-to-carry-her-brain-dead-fetus-to-term-video/](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/24/republican-louie-gohmert-tells-woman-she-should-have-been-forced-to-carry-her-brain-dead-fetus-to-term-video/) > > This idiot probably deserved a separate pitting for this, but I’m sure he’s already had his share of them. > > > [@](#): > > > > During a Thursday House panel hearing about H.R. 1797, a fetal pain bill being pushed at the federal level by Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, Gohmert cruelly told a woman testifying against the bill that she should have been forced to carry her brain dead fetus to term and watch it die while her family suffered financially from the hospital bills. Just looking out for his constituency. You would have to be brain dead to elect this moron. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9527 "2013-05-26T17:30:49Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > **FUCK YOU Louie Gohmert - brainless and heartless asshole.** > > [http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/24/republican-louie-gohmert-tells-woman-she-should-have-been-forced-to-carry-her-brain-dead-fetus-to-term-video/](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/24/republican-louie-gohmert-tells-woman-she-should-have-been-forced-to-carry-her-brain-dead-fetus-to-term-video/) > > This idiot probably deserved a separate pitting for this, but I’m sure he’s already had his share of them. So… I take it this guy hasn’t even heard about PR? Ye gods. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9528 "2013-05-26T17:51:38Z")
Bob Dole says the current GOP [should be](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/26/bob-dole-gop-should-be-closed-for-repairs/?hpid=z1) “closed for repairs.” The comments are from his recent appearance on Fox News Sunday. Of course you could argue it’s merely stating the obvious, but, surely, not stupid. > [@](#): > > Asked whether he would be welcomed by the Republican Party today, Dole said, “I doubt it. Reagan wouldn’t have made it, certainly Nixon wouldn’t have made it, because he had ideas…" Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9529 "2013-05-26T23:27:05Z")
If even the party veterans are speaking out about how the party has lost its way, you know the party has lost its way. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9530 "2013-05-27T03:29:09Z")
Heh. Back in the bad old Reaganomics/“No New Taxes”/“My Pet Goat” years, we _dreamed_ of the day the GOP would “[lose] its way.” 'Cos, you know, that way kinda sucked. Freaky how it’s now possible to look back on that with nostalgia. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9531 "2013-05-27T04:43:21Z")
[\*\* Kansas Republican Actually Opposes The Poor Buying More Food \*\*](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/26/kansas-republican-actually-opposes-the-poor-buying-more-food/) House Republican fuckhead Jeff Melcher explained his opposition to lowering sales tax from 6.3% to 4.95% on groceries thusly: _“It seems to me we are encouraging the behavior of purchasing food and discouraging the behavior of purchasing anything else.”_ Chew on that for a bit. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9532 "2013-05-27T05:46:11Z")
Well, _someone_ has to buy all those Abrams tanks the Army doesn’t want. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9533 "2013-05-27T12:03:26Z")
See, this is why I don’t really want to be in the Republican Party right now. It’s all these idiots in the party who say awful, stupid stuff that no one should say or think and they are still allowed to stay in the party and seldom get called out for their stupid and insulting remarks. And it seems to be happening more frequently these days. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9534 "2013-05-27T15:10:34Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Heh. Back in the bad old Reaganomics/“No New Taxes”/“My Pet Goat” years, we _dreamed_ of the day the GOP would “[lose] its way.” 'Cos, you know, that way kinda sucked. > > Freaky how it’s now possible to look back on that with nostalgia. And to think I rolled my eyes the first few times I saw a “miss me yet?” meme :eek: wait, they didn’t mean it quite like that? Oh, nevermind ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9535 "2013-05-27T15:30:44Z")
> [@computergeek](#): > > If even the party veterans are speaking out about how the party has lost its way, you know the party has lost its way. They don’t care since they see him as a weak RINO sell-out. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9536 "2013-05-27T15:47:24Z")
[An Ohio school district wants to “teach the controversy” about Agenda 21.](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/05/27/2063861/ohio-school-district-may-add-glenn-beck-conspiracy-theories-to-curriculum/) ---
**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:** [May 27, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9537 "2013-05-27T19:21:01Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [An Ohio school district wants to “teach the controversy” about Agenda 21.](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/05/27/2063861/ohio-school-district-may-add-glenn-beck-conspiracy-theories-to-curriculum/) That is just so fucking mentally retarded. There is no controversy; there is only the truth that can be found in the actual text and a flat out fucking LIE with no basis in reality. GOD I hate these people. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9538 "2013-06-01T00:03:38Z")
A GOP news outlet (Fox) panel freaks out over women becoming the bread winners [http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/29/fox-contributor-liberals-who-reject-that-men-should-dominate-women-are-anti-science/](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/29/fox-contributor-liberals-who-reject-that-men-should-dominate-women-are-anti-science/) > [@](#): > > Fox Business personalities had a collective freak out on Wednesday night after learning that mothers were now the primary source of income in 40 percent of U.S. households. > > Fox Business host Lou Dobbs asserted women earning more than their husbands was an indication of the dissolution of American society. Fox News political analyst Juan Williams agreed, describing it as a sign of the disintegration of marriage that would have negative consequences for generations to come. > > Fox News contributor Erick Erickson went one step further, saying nature itself commanded that women be subservient to men. Even Greta Van Susteren thought those guys were cavemen: > **[Fox News Host TEARS Into Sexist Male Colleagues](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/greta-van-susteren-men-lost-minds_n_3365184?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular)** > > Fox News Host TEARS Into Sexist Male Colleagues > [@](#): > > “Have these men lost their minds? (and these are my colleagues!!! oh brother… maybe I need to have a little chat with them (next thing they will have a segment to discuss eliminating women’s right to vote?)” ---
**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:** [June 1, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9539 "2013-06-01T00:11:24Z")
> **[GOP Rep: God Gave Us The Right To Have Guns](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-stockman-guns-god_n_3365213?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000010)** > > GOP Rep: God Gave Us The Right To Have Guns Steve Stockman: ‘The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Is Granted By God’ > [@](#): > > Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) warned on Thursday that the United Nations was seeking to violate what he described as the god-given right to have guns through its Arms Trade Treaty, which President Barack Obama has suggested he’ll sign next month. > > “The right to keep and bear arms is granted by God and protecting [sic] from government aggression by the Constitution,” Stockman said in a statement. "It is not subject to the whims of global totalitarians massed in New York City.” Apparently there are at least two Gods. The one watching over the United States that granted gun rights and the one watching over most of the rest of the world. Coming soon: UN tanks rolling up your street. ---
**Author:** ![drew870mitchell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drew870mitchell/32/3946_2.png) [@drew870mitchell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drew870mitchell)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9540 "2013-06-01T00:34:20Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Ah, good. Tom Cotton of Arkansas thinks it would be just fine and dandy to [throw the entire family in prison](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/tom-cotton-corruption-of-blood_n_3322251.html) if one member of it is convicted of violating U.S. sanctions on Iran. The good news is that The bad news is that he thought this was a good idea in the first place. > > Some days, there are just \*not \*enough roll-eyes. I’d like to believe that this is so gutsily stupid that it’s more gutsy than stupid, but, damn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=476) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=478)