# 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:** 486
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9701 "2013-06-06T15:26:56Z")
Fucking socialists, and their commie ski vacations. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9702 "2013-06-06T15:43:34Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I think it’s kind of impressive that it’s taken this long for the Stupid Republican Ideas thread to get hopelessly hijacked. That was a good run. I think it happens at least once a year. I’m still trying to figure out how taking a separate flight = Arrogant. Unless arrogant is being used as a substitute for uppity. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9703 "2013-06-06T15:44:53Z")
Someday we need to put the brakes on this thread so we can go back and count up all the stupid ideas and divide by the number of days it ran. I suspect that there really was a new stupid Republican idea about once a day. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9704 "2013-06-06T15:46:55Z")
It’s only the President and First Lady. What, are they too good to take the bus everywhere? ---
**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:** [June 6, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9705 "2013-06-06T15:51:04Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > Fucking socialists, and their commie ski vacations. Hey, skiing originates from the socialist Nordic countries. Skiing and saunas – what more could anyone want? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9706 "2013-06-06T15:52:40Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > It’s only the President and First Lady. What, are they too good to take the bus everywhere? What, they can’t walk uphill both ways the way our presidents had to? ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9707 "2013-06-06T15:54:22Z")
I don’t think the Founders had cross-country vacation flights in mind when they drafted the Constitution. Michelle Obama should have to take the kids to Aspen in a Conestoga wagon. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9708 "2013-06-06T16:01:40Z")
According to the Founders, Michelle and the kids would be staying on the plantation picking cotton and servicing the over-seers. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9709 "2013-06-06T16:02:06Z")
This may be the most impressive derailment since the two-page-long argument last year about what constitutes a “true Christian”. If I may be so bold as to steer the thread back toward its intended topic, House Republicans are trying to add [an amendment to this year’s NDAA making it legal for servicemembers to harass their gay co-workers.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/06/05/2108681/house-republicans-push-for-another-military-license-to-discriminate/) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9710 "2013-06-06T16:05:14Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Someday we need to put the brakes on this thread so we can go back and count up all the stupid ideas and divide by the number of days it ran. I suspect that there really was a new stupid Republican idea about once a day. To be fair, some Republicans are inflating the numbers by doing the stupid on an almost daily basis. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9711 "2013-06-06T16:06:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I think it’s kind of impressive that it’s taken this long for the Stupid Republican Ideas thread to get hopelessly hijacked. “Hopelessly hijacked”? Pfffft. **Starving Artist** tried to hijack this thread into a defense of Stupid Republican Ideas back on page _2_, and **galveston** attempted it starting on page 64, and I’m sure there have been other such efforts after that. The mighty current of quotidian Republican stupidity just kept on rolling along and swept away their feeble attempts to deny it. I’m sure the same thing will happen to this hijack as well. Speaking of quotidian Republican stupidity, it was recently reported that [the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor of Virginia argues that the fact that chimps can’t talk like humans is evidence that evolution is false](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/05/republican-candidate-evolution-false-because-chimps-cant-talk/): > [@](#): > > E.W. Jackson made the claim in _Ten Commandments to an Extraordinary Life_, a book he published in 2008. > > In the book, he noted that scientists had taught chimpanzees to use sign language. He said this finding was wrongly used as evidence that primates were our ancestors. Jackson said the scientists were incorrect because spoken language was a gift God provided exclusively to human beings and “no other creature.” > > “There is an unfathomable gulf between humans and all other creatures because creation was designed that way,” he wrote. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9712 "2013-06-06T16:18:36Z")
E.W. Jackson is going to require his own thread, he’s so full of GOP knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9713 "2013-06-06T16:19:43Z")
It’s amusing on a superficial level but deep down I’m mostly sad and disappointed that an adult american thinks that statement is in any way acceptable or correct. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9714 "2013-06-06T16:30:05Z")
Shouldn’t both the Obama kids have been working for a living since their father started living on government financial assistance at the White House? SNAP QUIZ Pro black child labor: A. Republican B. Democrat A. Republican – [Newt](http://youtu.be/zKN6izH4POs) ---
**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:** [June 6, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9715 "2013-06-06T16:30:32Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Oh my God! I thought “jew” as a verb was just a thing lazy Hollywood writers used to show us that some character is a jerk, so he could be taught A LESSON. > > I had no idea any real people ever did that! It’s kind of like finding out that ‘gangsta sideways pistol shooting’ thing is real! Hell, I had a Navy chaplain use it to me, when he was telling me about the house he was trying to buy. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9716 "2013-06-06T16:30:51Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > It’s only the President and First Lady. What, are they too good to take the bus everywhere? But where are they gonna \*\*sit \*\*on that bus, huh? Now we’ll see who’s uppity! ---
**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:** [June 6, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9717 "2013-06-06T16:34:28Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Yeah. And if you go to Zumba classes, you’ll end up practicing Voodoo. I’ve never really understood why there had to be classes on how to use those things. You just charge it up, put it down on the floor and let it do its thing, right? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9718 "2013-06-06T16:40:27Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > E.W. Jackson is going to require his own thread, he’s so full of GOP knowledge. Lawksie, yes. [Daily Kos](http://features.rr.com/article/0cSIbrVcWL5xh?q=Life+%28show%29) has an enjoyable piece about the nose-holding antics of the [_National Review_ article that tried to speak admiringly of Bishop Jackson](http://www.nationalreview.com/article/350180/pulpit-ticket-betsy-woodruff), but go directly to the article itself for the real fun: > [@](#): > > There are a few reasons this old-fashioned minister became national news ([…] and one is that that’s what happens when you win a major party’s nomination after saying that gays are “frankly very sick people” and that the president “clearly has Muslim sensibilities” and that African-Americans need to end their “slavish devotion” to the Democratic party. […] > > Jackson has an uphill battle, to say the least. But he hasn’t let campaigning keep him from his pastoral duties. […] > > CDs of his messages were available for a donation of $5 at a table by the entrance. The bulletin also suggested that church members “sow a seed of one weeks pay” [sic] for the annual “Founder’s Week” service held in honor of Jackson and his wife. […] > > An envelope inserted in the bulletin listed a number of different causes to which attendees could designate their offerings, including “Bishop’s Birthday,” “Bishop & 1st Lady Wedding Anniversary,” “Founder’s Week (& Too Much Blessing Seed)” and “Bishop’s Vacation,” as well as a few ministries, “General Pastoral Support,” and the building fund. The bulletin also announced that the congregation takes up a weekly offering “to provide relief from the cost of gasoline to our members with cars.” […] > > On page 177 [of Jackson’s abovementioned book] he says: “While giving to the poor is important, the most powerful giving for wealth building is upward giving.” On p. 178, Jackson uses his own case to explain how this works: > > > [@](#): > > > > For example, as you read this book, you may feel a deep spiritual affinity for the things I am teaching and therefore a profound spiritual kinship with me. We may never meet in person, but you can draw on the anointing which God has placed on my life by sowing into my ministry. That opens a spiritual door for you to partake at a deeper level and for me to impart to you as one in Covenant with me. That is how I have come to support other ministries. Wherever you are moved to give, do it consistently and generously. This will start a flow of prosperity in your life which will enhance all the other principles you have learned. > > […] Anyway, after worship, tithes (a musician played keyboard while attendees walked to the front of the room to put their donations in baskets), announcements, and a Scripture reading, Jackson launched into his sermon. […] > > After criticizing American culture, which he described as degenerate, Jackson said that the political process won’t cure what ails our country. The cultural problem is too deep, he said, and Americans need God. […] > > “As if God’s gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV’s!” he cried. “It’s silly, when you think about it.” […] A black preacher criticizing American culture? As the Daily Kos piece points out, apparently IOKIARDI. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9719 "2013-06-06T16:43:46Z")
> [@fudrucker](#): > > > [@Equipoise](#): > > > > [Regulating the First Lady](http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0309/GOP_transparency_push_seen_as_attack_on_Michelle_O.html) > > > > Why are Republicans so eager to look so fucking stupid? > > You’re taking this out of context. Michelle Obama’s arrogance knows no bounds. She seems to think that anything she says should be taken as gospel. All the while she takes an entirely separate entourage to Hawaii just six hours ahead of the president for their Christmas vacation. > > Then it’s on to president’s day, she takes the “girls” skiing in Aspen while the president plays golf with Tiger Woods. > > Then it’s spring break. Michelle and the “girls” spend half the week in the Caribbean, then it’s more skiing at Sun Valley. > > This woman is arrogant beyond words. It’s a lame argument to blame republicans for that. Dude. Are you really going to try rebutting this thread ALL THE WAY THROUGH, STARTING FROM POST #1? 'Cos if you are, I have to say that’s pretty impressive. You realize this thread is more than four years old, and has close to 10K posts in it, right? You might want to settle in for a long session, maybe catheterize yourself. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9720 "2013-06-06T16:47:13Z")
> [@](#): > > The bulletin also announced that the congregation takes up a weekly offering “to provide relief from the cost of gasoline to our members with cars.” Socialism! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=485) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=487)