# 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:** 496
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9901 "2013-06-24T18:31:42Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [http://www.salon.com/2013/06/24/texas\_abortion\_bill\_sponsor\_doesnt\_know\_what\_a\_rape\_kit\_is/](http://www.salon.com/2013/06/24/texas_abortion_bill_sponsor_doesnt_know_what_a_rape_kit_is/) > > **Texas abortion bill sponsor doesn’t know what a rape kit is**. . . . So . . . is there a movement to send her rape kits in the interest of education? ---
**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:** [June 24, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9902 "2013-06-24T18:43:16Z")
[Republican congresscritters](http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/305777-gop-to-constituents-questions-on-obamacare-call-obama?wpisrc=nl_wonk_b) are planning to stonewall any constituent questions about Obamacare. Petulant fucking children is what the GOP has devolved into. Party before Country every time. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9903 "2013-06-24T18:44:17Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Maine governor lePage, apparently annoyed by news reporting that he views as hostile, has decided not to comment on his actions, and has pretty much cut off access to government information to the press, forbidding state agencies to release, for example, the governor’s schedule. This is beyond absurd: > > [Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC | Watch Rachel Maddow Live](http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#52270200) > > The governor’s actions that prompted this are equally outrageous. See the linked report. (Sorry, I couldn’t find a print edition of this that goes into it in any detail) > edited to add: Here’s a link to the Maine Telegram’s report on Maine Environmental Protection head Patricia Aho: > > [The lobbyist in the henhouse: Whose interests is Maine’s DEP commissioner serving?](http://www.pressherald.com/news/Whose-interests-is-Maines-DEP-commissioner-serving.html) I’m surprised Generalissimo LePage didn’t just order the reporters shot. What a pussy. He is the type I call a “Banana Republican”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9904 "2013-06-25T04:29:20Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > So . . . is there a movement to send her rape kits in the interest of education? Nope. Wire hangers. (Really! :p) ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9905 "2013-06-25T10:22:35Z")
Send her a rape ist. Rape ist. Ist. Ist. Stupid autocorrect. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9906 "2013-06-25T19:29:47Z")
[Wasting no time after the Supreme Court’s ruling today, Texas’s AG has vowed to implement their Voter ID law, and made mention that redistricting maps passed by their legislature can now be used.](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/texas-advances-voter-id-law-after-supreme-court-ruling.php) Honestly, that second part scares me more than the first. Now many GOP-heavy states can just gerrymander with impunity to even further reduce the amount of liberal politicians elected. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9907 "2013-06-25T20:17:57Z")
Is that stupid, or just morally bankrupt? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9908 "2013-06-25T21:36:03Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Is that stupid, or just morally bankrupt? With Republicans that all kind of just blends together. ---
**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 26, 2013, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9909 "2013-06-26T09:19:41Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Is that stupid, or just morally bankrupt? My vote is for “rat-like cunning”. ---
**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 27, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9910 "2013-06-27T19:45:03Z")
> **[Ken Cuccinelli Warns Gay Marriage Will Lead To Polygamy Because This Is A Day...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ken-cuccinelli-gay-marriage-polygamy_n_3496870)** > > Ken Cuccinelli Warns Gay Marriage Will Lead To Polygamy Because This Is A Day That Ends With 'Y' Ken Cuccinelli Warns Gay Marriage Will Lead To Polygamy > [@](#): > > “Responsible parenting is not a justification for same-sex-couple marriage, as distinguished from recognition of any other human relationships. It is instead a rationale for eliminating marriage as government recognition of a limited set of relationships. Once the natural limits that inhere in the relationship between a man and a woman can no longer sustain the definition of marriage, the conclusion that follows is that any grouping of adults would have an equal claim to marriage. See, e.g. , Jonathan Turley, One Big, Happy Polygamous Family , NY Times, July 21, 2011, at A27 (“[Polygamists] want to be allowed to create a loving family according to the values of their faith.”).” To tell the truth, I don’t have a moral problem with multiple marriage partners as long as they are all consenting adults and not a 14 year old married to a 65 year old church elder. (I think multiple marriages have practical problems with things like insurance coverage, etc.) But to say that gay marriage leads to multiple marriage is a huge stretch. I’m surprised he didn’t bring up the married to a sheep argument. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9911 "2013-06-27T19:48:20Z")
Naw, you don’t _marry_ sheep, just date them when the wife is out of town. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9912 "2013-06-28T00:50:52Z")
Another great moment in derpery from the Texas Legislature – state senator Bob Deuell explains that [pregnancy results only from “accurate intercourse”](http://wonkette.com/520806/texas-sen-bob-deuell-knows-how-babby-is-formed-only-by-accurate-intercourse). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9913 "2013-06-28T01:19:24Z")
Presumably innacurate intercourse would be Up The Butt, Bob ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9914 "2013-06-28T02:36:43Z")
“You can’t be pregnant! I curve slightly to the left!” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9915 "2013-06-28T02:39:40Z")
Even worse, he’s a doctor! An actual board-certified physician with a currently-active partnership. Remember, folks, always ask your doctor which party he votes for. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9916 "2013-06-28T03:41:57Z")
Where the fuck does the GOP find these ex-doctors who somehow know less about pregnancy than jr high health teachers? I guess that explains why changed professions, though. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9917 "2013-06-28T03:53:43Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Where the fuck does the GOP find these ex-doctors who somehow know less about pregnancy than jr high health teachers? > > I guess that explains why changed professions, though. Unfortunately, they’re using their new positions to force the junior high health teachers to tell lies about sex, pregnancy, and abortion. And they’re forcing doctors to do the same thing. And counselors at women’s health clinics, but not the anti-abortion so-called “crisis centers”, because they lie already. ---
**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 28, 2013, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9918 "2013-06-28T12:00:32Z")
Texas Republican Says Senator Wendy Davis Is A Terrorist For Filibustering Anti-Abortion Bill > [@](#): > > The filibuster was completely legal according to parliamentary rules and is part of the democratic process when not abused as Republicans in the US Senate have done since President Obama took office. Yet, because Wendy Davis followed procedure and took a stand for women in her state, one of her Republican colleagues took to Twitter and called her a “terrorist.” According to ThinkProgress, upon the victorious blockage of the bill Republican State Senator Bill Zedler sent this tweet: > > > [@](#): > > > > We had terrorist in the Texas State Senate opposing SB 5 > > — Bill Zedler (@Bill\_Zedler) June 26, 2013 [http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/27/texas-republican-says-senator-wendy-davis-is-a-terrorist-for-filibustering-anti-abortion-bill-image/#ixzz2XVm0qqnf](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/27/texas-republican-says-senator-wendy-davis-is-a-terrorist-for-filibustering-anti-abortion-bill-image/#ixzz2XVm0qqnf) ---
**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 28, 2013, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9919 "2013-06-28T12:04:19Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Texas Republican Says Senator Wendy Davis Is A Terrorist For Filibustering Anti-Abortion Bill To be fair, he and the Texas GOP **are** terrified of her. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9920 "2013-06-28T12:53:07Z")
Not to defend anyone here, but was he actually talking about Senator Davis or was he talking about the crowd (excuse me, let me translate that into Republiscum…“mob”)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=495) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=497)