# 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:** 498
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9941 "2013-06-30T02:13:22Z")
I just found this book on Amazon: Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies About the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging [Homosexual](http://amzn.com/B00462RV46). If nothing else, BEST title of the year! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9942 "2013-06-30T03:06:22Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Excuse me, but this just came to my attention: > > from [StartLogic](http://www.admala.org/?p=412) > > PLEASE tell me this is a hoax. > Witches’ Covens? > Really? The article goes on: > [@](#): > > (Gohmert likens these provisions to anti-gang legislation. He also claims they have precedence in the anti-sorcery statutes of Arkansas and Alabama.) > > Said Gohmert, concluding his speech, “Folks, our forebears burned witches. If you believe Exodus, we ought to do the same. All we are advocating for is a superior tool for law enforcement. All we want to do is fight terror—at home, just as we do abroad.” A question – why “States along the Mississippi River Basin”? Why do Arkansas and Alabama have Anti-Sorcery statutes? I think they’[ve been watching _True Blood_ and not realizing that it’s fiction. Although one of the comments says: > [@](#): > > Considering there are absolutely no other references to this online, I suspect this is a fabrication. If this is a fabrication it isn’t funny. Not one bit. Pagans have a hard enough time as it is. We don’t need this kind of press, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9943 "2013-06-30T20:52:43Z")
I may be being unjust to Republican’s here, but on my way home today I passed a couple of yard signs that declared “Prayer: America’s Only Hope”. (Massachusetts being a bastion of godless liberalism, you can see why I’m willing to put good money on these people’s political affiliation.) Look, I’m not a militant atheist. At worst, I’m a grumpy agnostic. But “only” hope? So all those things that men of good will might try to improve their domestic well-being – education, sound laws formulated by reasoned debate between parties, hard work, scientific inquiry, personal sacrifice – you’re willing to throw all that on the trash heap and bet the bank on prayer? \* That’s the approach you want to take and you think you’re competent to choose who helms the ship of state?\* What ever happened to God helps those who help themselves? So I’m of mixed feelings here. The message is defeatist and mildly offensive in its implication that this country is fundamentally and irredeemably broken. On the other hand, if you want to sit there praying instead of doing something more politically effective – well, knock yourselves out. ---
**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 30, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9944 "2013-06-30T21:57:18Z")
OMGWTF [Obamacars](http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/immigration/fox-news-conservatives-spread-false-obamacars-rumor-video)! > [@](#): > > According to Fox News (video below) and [BreitBart.com](http://BreitBart.com), the Senate immigration reform bill includes free cars, motorcycles and scooters for young people, which are all paid for by broke U.S. taxpayers. The bill actually provides provision in some circumstances for “transportation costs”, meaning bus and subway fare. But hey! “Bus fare”, “free cars” - those are essentially the same thing, right? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9945 "2013-06-30T22:30:05Z")
Lot of places do that, give bus tokens or some such that cannot be traded for hookers and drugs. Since the locality usually pretty much owns the metro transit, its close to zero cost. ---
**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 30, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9946 "2013-06-30T22:50:07Z")
They generally want to be stingy about even bus fare, though. I mean, they want people to work…but they don’t want to make it possible for them to GET to work. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9947 "2013-07-01T20:14:08Z")
Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. Now, that’s maybe not actually a stupid, as a career move for a rightarded trog Republican, maybe that’s smart. And we don’t really have a _Eeeeevil_ Republican Idea of the Day. So this will have to do. Link, as if you didn’t already believe me… > **[House Republican Introduces Constitutional Amendment Banning Gay Marriage](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-huelskamp-gay-marriage_n_3529842?1372703486=)** > > House Republican Introduces Constitutional Amendment Banning Gay Marriage ---
**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:** [July 1, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9948 "2013-07-01T20:16:48Z")
Nah, it fits Stupid just fine. It might have been a serious threat back when DOMA was passed, but the country’s changed since 1996. I don’t think they’d get that 3/4 of the states requirement today. And they won’t get the Senate, either. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9949 "2013-07-01T21:47:56Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > 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). I’m\* trying\* to get my wife pregnant, but I keep missing and hitting the back of some guys’ throat. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9950 "2013-07-02T00:01:12Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Nah, it fits Stupid just fine. It might have been a serious threat back when DOMA was passed, but the country’s changed since 1996. I don’t think they’d get that 3/4 of the states requirement today. And they won’t get the Senate, either. 3/4 of the states would be 37. Given that same-sex marriage is now legal or soon to be in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Maine, Washington, Rhode Island, Maryland, Delaware, Minnesota, and California, you’d actually need the votes of all states that haven’t already legalized SSM, including quite a few states with civil unions. Not a chance in hell. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9951 "2013-07-02T15:32:36Z")
No, but they should try. I’d love a nice wedge issue that has no chance in hell of succeeding. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9952 "2013-07-03T14:26:55Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I’m\* trying\* to get my wife pregnant, but I keep missing and hitting the back of some guys’ throat. That literally made me laugh out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9953 "2013-07-03T15:21:09Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I’m\* trying\* to get my wife pregnant, but I keep missing and hitting the back of some guys’ throat. [“Doctor, why do those _types_ keep thinking that I’m one of them?”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvIEF19nm0) [Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?](http://www.theonion.com/articles/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock,10861/) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9954 "2013-07-03T17:02:39Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I’m\* trying\* to get my wife pregnant, but I keep missing and hitting the back of some guys’ throat. Bravo. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9955 "2013-07-06T02:11:48Z")
**‘Some women may have little beards’** : Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s greatest hits [http://theweek.com/article/index/246460/some-women-may-have-little-beards-maine-gov-paul-lepages-greatest-hits#](http://theweek.com/article/index/246460/some-women-may-have-little-beards-maine-gov-paul-lepages-greatest-hits#) > [@](#): > > In 2011, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection recommended banning bisphenol A, or BPA, in all reusable food and beverage containers sold in the state. Studies have linked BPA to health problems in young children and fetuses, prompting the European Union and several U.S. states to regulate the chemical’s use. > > LePage, unconvinced that the science behind those studies was sound, disagreed with the environmental agency’s recommendation. > > “The only thing that I’ve heard is if you take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave and you heat it up, it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen,” he said. “So the worst case is some women may have little beards.” ---
**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:** [July 6, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9956 "2013-07-06T02:45:33Z")
Estrogen causes beards? I’m having trouble computing this. Is this guy really so ignorant that he doesn’t know the difference between estrogen and testosterone? And boy, howdy, I bet a few women could educate him on how they feel about his “worst case little beards”. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9957 "2013-07-07T19:24:48Z")
[A Louisiana Republican wants to ban public buildings from flying rainbow flags because their presence is insulting to veterans.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/07/07/2261821/louisiana-republican-introduces-bill-to-ban-lgbt-rainbow-flag-from-public-buildings/) > [@](#): > > “I did not go overseas and fight for our country so that we could come back and be subject to something like that,” Green said Friday. “Several of us (veterans) feel that the flying of this flag is a poke in the eye of a way of life.” > > Green told the paper that while he is not “against the gays,” he is opposed to “the act itself.” ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9958 "2013-07-07T19:40:33Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Estrogen causes beards? I’m having trouble computing this. Is this guy really so ignorant that he doesn’t know the difference between estrogen and testosterone? > > And boy, howdy, I bet a few women could educate him on how they feel about his “worst case little beards”. I guess it’s a sign of progress this guy isn’t afraid of being emasculated by estrogens in his food and drinking water? But I would think even the most sensitive new age guy would still be concerned about fertility. His own and his woman’s. So yeah, that is one stupid man. And not to offend hirsute women…but I’m not thinking men would like it if their girlfriends and wives started walking around with furry faces. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9959 "2013-07-07T20:06:56Z")
Hell, if you’re gonna be horny for women with Freddy Mercury mustaches you might just as well give up and have the surgery. Or whatever they do, I don’t fucking know… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9960 "2013-07-08T00:18:22Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > And boy, howdy, I bet a few women could educate him on how they feel about his “worst case little beards”. Is that what Michele Bachmann is to Marcus? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=497) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=499)