# 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:** 491
**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 15, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9801 "2013-06-15T01:08:07Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Department of Workforce Development Secretary is Reggie Newson who is considered a Democrat. So there is at least one exception. > > [http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/bio\_reggie\_newson.htm](http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/bio_reggie_newson.htm) > > His position is non-partisan and Newson, as far as I could see in a five minute search, was not active in Democratic party politics. As far as I know, that was the only possible one. A number of (now former) Walker staff members have been convicted or charged with crimes. Perhaps his vetting process isn’t the best. ---
**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 16, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9802 "2013-06-16T17:22:35Z")
[http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/06/13/2153451/rubio-enda/](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/06/13/2153451/rubio-enda/) > [@](#): > > EXCLUSIVE: Rubio Says It Should Be Legal To Fire Someone For Being Gay > By Adam Peck and Scott Keyes on Jun 13, 2013 at 3:30 pm > > Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) (Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty) > WASHINGTON, DC — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is touted as a top GOP presidential prospect in 2016, thinks it should be legal to fire someone for their sexual orientation. > > ThinkProgress spoke with the Florida Senator at the opening luncheon of the annual Faith and Freedom Forum on Thursday and asked him about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill to make discrimination against LGBT individuals illegal across the country. Certainly stupid for someone contemplating a run for a national office. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9803 "2013-06-16T19:29:25Z")
Texas Governor Rick Perry is [jumbling the world map](http://news.yahoo.com/rick-perry-mistakes-lebanon-libya-170545855--abc-news-politics.html): > [@](#): > > “I fear where we’ve come to in America, where our administration won’t make one phone call to save our men and women in a embassy in Lebanon,” Perry said at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9804 "2013-06-16T19:58:31Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Texas Governor Rick Perry is [jumbling the world map](http://news.yahoo.com/rick-perry-mistakes-lebanon-libya-170545855--abc-news-politics.html): > > > [@](#): > > > > “I fear where we’ve come to in America, where our administration won’t make one phone call to save our men and women in a embassy in Lebanon,” Perry said at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. There seems to be a worldview — and I know some people who share it — which regards everything from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Black Sea (with the exception of Israel) as a sort of “Mooslimistan”. Sunni, Shi’a, Maghreb, Arab, Persian, Turk . . . they’re all the same. Insofar as Perry seems to exhibit some of the other traits as people who hold this worldview, his mistake is at least consistent. To these people, the important thing is that the Jews rebuild the Temple of Solomon, which is essential for the Second Coming. After which they’ll be comfortably ensconced on a cloud, reveling in the torments of the heathens. Including, paradoxically, the very Jews who made it possible. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9805 "2013-06-16T20:11:32Z")
Life isn’t fair. God, even less so. And Jesus, avatar of loving mercy, rubs his punctured hands and cackles with glee at the prospect of dumping 99% of the world’s population into a lake of fire. And then surrounding himself with a bunch of smug, uptight bigots for all eternity, and listen to them sing. Or maybe He feels bad about that, but does it anyway. Because. I went to the Sunday School where Jesus loves all the little children of the world. Mr. Perry went to another one, I guess. Did his have that picture of Jesus as a real good lookin’ white guy with reddish-auburn hair? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9806 "2013-06-16T21:13:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Life isn’t fair. God, even less so. > > And Jesus, avatar of loving mercy, rubs his punctured hands and cackles with glee at the prospect of dumping 99% of the world’s population into a lake of fire. And then surrounding himself with a bunch of smug, uptight bigots for all eternity, and listen to them sing. > > Or maybe He feels bad about that, but does it anyway. Because. > > I went to the Sunday School where Jesus loves all the little children of the world. Mr. Perry went to another one, I guess. Did his have that picture of Jesus as a real good lookin’ white guy with reddish-auburn hair? In [JOB: A Comedy of Justice](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job:_A_Comedy_of_Justice) Yahweh states that 7.1 percent of the final batch\* made it to the Holy City. So you may be unduly harsh on Him. Or maybe not. I do think it is definitely a little strange to take a ghoulish delight in contemplating the eternal suffering of the damned. Not that this is a defining characteristic of Republicans, but in my experience those who do so seldom identify with any party to the left of the GOP. \*Not including golems, although what golems have to do with that statistic is not explained. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9807 "2013-06-17T16:37:27Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Texas Governor Rick Perry is [jumbling the world map](http://news.yahoo.com/rick-perry-mistakes-lebanon-libya-170545855--abc-news-politics.html): > > > [@](#): > > > > “I fear where we’ve come to in America, where our administration won’t make one phone call to save our men and women in a embassy in Lebanon,” Perry said at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. Lebanon? He must be talking about Reagan. ---
**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 17, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9808 "2013-06-17T18:55:16Z")
To be fair, Regan didn’t cut and run after the embassy was attacked in Lebanon, like Obama. Or am I getting it backwards? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9809 "2013-06-17T18:56:50Z")
Yes, you are. Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon, and invaded Grenada instead. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9810 "2013-06-17T19:19:59Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Yes, you are. Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon, and invaded Grenada instead. Much like Bush invaded Iraq after a group of mostly Saudi Arabians blew up the WTC towers. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9811 "2013-06-17T19:33:32Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I went to the Sunday School where Jesus loves all the little children of the world. Mr. Perry went to another one, I guess. Did his have that picture of Jesus as a real good lookin’ white guy with reddish-auburn hair? Fast-forward 40 seconds into [this video of a Gene Pitney song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vsc-H-2Yo) to see the Jesus worshipped by Texans. If you like that song, [this version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo-4soF4Jck) is also funny. > [@fudrucker](#): > > 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… > This woman is arrogant beyond words. It’s a lame argument to blame republicans for that. Michelle better not visit Texas in the nighttime. ---
**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 17, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9812 "2013-06-17T20:31:49Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > To be fair, Regan didn’t cut and run after the embassy was attacked in Lebanon, like Obama. > > Or am I getting it backwards? > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Yes, you are. Reagan cut and ran from Lebanon, and invaded Grenada instead. Would you care to borrow a comb, sir? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9813 "2013-06-17T21:16:24Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Michelle better not visit Texas in the nighttime. She’d be safe - they can’t see her unless she smiles. 😃 ---
**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:** [June 18, 2013, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9814 "2013-06-18T09:24:04Z")
Texas Representative Michael Burgess feels that we should reduce the timeframe allowed for abortions to the 15-week mark because… …wait for it… […he’s seen a fetus masturbating.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/17/republican-cites-masturbating-fetuses-to-support-new-abortion-restrictions/) > [@](#): > > “Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” he continued. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?” ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9815 "2013-06-18T09:59:00Z")
The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We all know what he meant. ---
**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 18, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9816 "2013-06-18T14:15:31Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Texas Representative Michael Burgess feels that we should reduce the timeframe allowed for abortions to the 15-week mark because… > > …wait for it… > > […he’s seen a fetus masturbating.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/17/republican-cites-masturbating-fetuses-to-support-new-abortion-restrictions/) > > > [@](#): > > > > “Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” he continued. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?” Man, that Michael Burgess REALLY likes kiddie porn, doesn’t he? Ought to be some kind of law about that (that applies only to him, of course). _“Subjects of fetal sonograms WILL be required to remain clothed during the procedure…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9817 "2013-06-18T14:27:55Z")
I saw the article about Burgess and went WTF … are Republicans holding some sort of secret contest to see who can say the stupidest thing wrt abortion and rape? ---
**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:** [June 18, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9818 "2013-06-18T14:33:58Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Texas Representative Michael Burgess feels that we should reduce the timeframe allowed for abortions to the 15-week mark because… > > …wait for it… > > […he’s seen a fetus masturbating.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/17/republican-cites-masturbating-fetuses-to-support-new-abortion-restrictions/) With almost 10,000 posts in this thread I think we need a   _Stupid Republican Ideas – Greatest Hits_ I nominate this one. ---
**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 18, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9819 "2013-06-18T14:50:43Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I saw the article about Burgess and went WTF … are Republicans holding some sort of secret contest to see who can say the stupidest thing wrt abortion and rape? Here’s a “good” one. [http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/gop-senators-poised-to-enact-abortion-measure-b9932234z1-211185421.html](http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/gop-senators-poised-to-enact-abortion-measure-b9932234z1-211185421.html) > [@](#): > > Quote from Sen. Mary (Laser) Lazich (R-New Berlin): > > She also claimed a “majority of women who regret” their abortions and said they had become common because of cultural shifts in the 1960s. > > “It became popular in the '60s,” she said. “It became the thing to do. You know, you almost had to get one to be a woman.” Note to Mary Lazich - Roe v Wade came out in 1973. During the 1960’s abortion was illegal almost everywhere in the United States. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9820 "2013-06-18T15:16:59Z")
From [Rawstory.com](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/bryan-fischer-homofascists-will-treat-christians-like-jews-in-the-holocaust/): [QUOTE=Bryan Fischer, director of issues analysis at the American Family Association] “If you don’t believe in sodomy-based marriage, you’re not prepared to endorse and sanction sodomy-based marriage, you have no place in this institution [Johns Hopkins School of Medicine?],” Fischer complained. “So we’re getting to the point — I don’t know what the emblem would be — remember when the Jews in Nazi Germany, they had to wear a yellow Star of David on their sleeve? I mean, we’re getting to the point now, that’s what they’re going to make us do.” “I don’t know what the symbol would be, I’d have to think about that,” he continued. “We’re getting to the point where these homofascists are going to force us to wear on our sleeves some kind of identifying marker so people will know who the racists and the homophobes and the bigots are, and can stay away from them.” [/QUOTE] (I didn’t actually Google to see if Fischer has the “(R)” by his name. Does anyone really think that would be necessary?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=490) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=492)