# 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:** 513
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10241 "2013-08-12T14:14:34Z")
How do you process nuclear waste so it’s all water soluble? Wouldn’t that require treatment plants? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10242 "2013-08-12T14:53:14Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > How do you process nuclear waste so it’s all water soluble? Wouldn’t that require treatment plants? Turtles; all the way down. All. The. Way. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10243 "2013-08-12T14:59:39Z")
Teenage mutant ninja turtles. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10244 "2013-08-12T15:18:30Z")
1. Collect nuclear waste. 2. ? 3. Profit! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10245 "2013-08-12T16:27:32Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Are you saying he’s wrong? :dubious: > > If all nuclear waste were evenly dispersed throughout the world’s oceans (i.e. [1,335,000,000 km[sup]3[/sup]](http://ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/etopo1_ocean_volumes.html)/_total volume of world’s nuclear waste_), would there _really_ be a noticeable increase in the ocean’s radiation levels? Even if so, would that increase be likely to lead to harm? The ocean is a big place, doncha’ know! Well, we won’t really know until we try it. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10246 "2013-08-12T16:42:39Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Is it possible that God is an asshole? I used to make fun of girls in high school who’d let their boyfriends do anal so they’d technically remain virgins. Now I learn that they were letting [del]us[/del] them come closer to God. :o ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10247 "2013-08-12T16:44:33Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I used to make fun of girls in high school who’d let their boyfriends do anal so they’d technically remain virgins. Now I learn that they were letting [del]us[/del] them come closer to God. :o o/` Nearer MYYY GOOOOD...er, to thee... o/` ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10248 "2013-08-12T16:52:46Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > How do you process nuclear waste so it’s all water soluble? Wouldn’t that require treatment plants? Well, there are processes like PUREX. Though I don’t know why you’d want to go to all that trouble just to dump useful material in the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10249 "2013-08-12T17:25:54Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Well, there are processes like PUREX. Though I don’t know why you’d want to go to all that trouble just to dump useful material in the ocean. For what is nuclear waste useful? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10250 "2013-08-12T17:33:47Z")
There are times I’d be willing to use it for mosquito repellent, and not even care if it turned me into a midget Godzilla. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10251 "2013-08-12T17:42:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > There are times I’d be willing to use it for mosquito repellent, and not even care if it turned me into a midget Godzilla. **luci** , I’ve lived in Minnesota. You’re gonna need a bigger waste dump. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10252 "2013-08-12T17:48:51Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > There are times I’d be willing to use it for mosquito repellent, and not even care if it turned me into a midget Godzilla. But consider what it might do to the mosquitoes. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10253 "2013-08-12T18:10:50Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [Former Peter DeFazio opponent Art Robinson elected to lead Oregon Republican Party - oregonlive.com](http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/former_peter_defazio_opponent.html) > > Oregon GOP has a new chair, Art Robinson, who has declared global warming and AIDS to be myths. > [http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/\_news/2010/10/07/5254452-if-it-were-possible-to-smear-a-person-by-quoting-to-him-things-that-he-has-published-in-his-own-newsletter](http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2010/10/07/5254452-if-it-were-possible-to-smear-a-person-by-quoting-to-him-things-that-he-has-published-in-his-own-newsletter) > [http://www.desmogblog.com/art-robinson](http://www.desmogblog.com/art-robinson) Meanwhile, Rep. Dana Rohrbacher (R-CA), who is **a member of the House Science Committee,** [says global warming is:](http://www.thenation.com/blog/175697/science-committee-congressman-global-warming-fraud-create-global-government#axzz2bmNmX5qj) > [@](#): > > . . . a plot by liberals to “create global government to control our lives.” > > The congressman prefaced his remarks by noting that he wanted to respond to comments from Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who said recently that ongoing wildfires in Southern California have been exacerbated by a dry season that is the result of climate change. Rohrabacher, speaking Thursday afternoon before the Newport Mesa Tea Party, then launched into a discussion about how the science of global warming has been promulgated by a cabal of scientists, liberal politicians and United Nation “global government” types. These forces, who would like to usurp American liberty, could even be from Nigeria, he warned . . . > > \ > > Rohrabacher is one of many lawmakers who, despite living in a state reeling from climate disasters, denies the basic science of anthropogenic global warming. Earlier this week, Representative Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) told ThinkProgress’s Scott Keyes that he doubts that the climate is changing. As Keyes reported, Mullin’s state has suffered from problems that have grown worse from climate change, from “massive tornadoes to widespread droughts, record-breaking heat to severe winter storms.” ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10254 "2013-08-12T18:51:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > But consider what it might do to the mosquitoes. Minnesota skeeters have nowhere to go but down. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10255 "2013-08-12T19:46:19Z")
> **[Opinion | Milton Friedman, Unperson (Published 2013)](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/opinion/krugman-milton-friedman-unperson.html?hp&_r=1&)** > > The curious case of a disappearing icon. Rand Paul likes a dead man for Chairman of the Federal Reserve System > [@](#): > > But the most interesting moment may have been when Mr. Paul was asked whom he would choose, ideally, to head the Federal Reserve and he suggested Milton Friedman — “he’s not an Austrian, but he would be better than what we have.” The interviewer then gently informed him that Friedman — who would have been 101 years old if he were still alive — is, in fact, dead. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10256 "2013-08-12T19:57:18Z")
I guess that kind of fits in with Rand Paul’s view of what the Fed should be doing. That is, nothing. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10257 "2013-08-12T20:29:18Z")
[Over the weekend](http://news.yahoo.com/missouri-fair-clown-draws-criticism-obama-mask-004950184.html), a state fair in Missouri went a little overboard at a rodeo and dressed a clown with an Obama mask and asked the crowd if they would like to see him get run down by a bull > [@](#): > > The antics led the state’s second highest-ranking official, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, to denounce the performance in a tweet Sunday. He said it was “disrespectful” to the president. A spectator likened the spectacle of the crowd enthusiastically cheering for the injury of the Obama stand-in to a klan rally, saying: > [@](#): > > “They mentioned the president’s name, I don’t know, 100 times. It was sickening,” Beam said. “It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV.” Oh sure, there’s no racism in the GOP at all :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10258 "2013-08-12T20:40:58Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Rohrabacher, speaking Thursday afternoon before the Newport Mesa Tea Party, then launched into a discussion about how the science of global warming has been promulgated by a cabal of scientists, liberal politicians and United Nation “global government” types. These forces, who would like to usurp American liberty, could even be from Nigeria, he warned . . . So that’s why El Nino wanted my bank transit number. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10259 "2013-08-12T21:42:26Z")
No. No. That was legit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10260 "2013-08-13T20:00:32Z")
[Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX)](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/blake-farenthold-impeach-obama-95443.html) doesn’t **want** to impeach Obama, as it would never fly in the Senate; but, he says the House has the votes to do it. What’s worse, he said that by way of pandering to a Birther. > [@](#): > > “A question I get a lot, ‘If everybody is so unhappy with the president, why don’t you impeach him?’” Farenthold, a Texas Republican, said at a town hall meeting Saturday according to a video posted on YouTube. “I’ll give you a real frank answer about that, if we were to impeach the president tomorrow, we would probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it.” > > \ > > Farenthold’s declaration came after a woman, who cannot be seen on the video, presents a folder to Farenthold that she says contains proof that Obama’s birth certificate was faked. > > “I’ll take a look at it,” Farenthold said. “I’ll tell you on the whole birth certificate issue … I think unfortunately the horse is already out of the barn on this. The original Congress when his eligibility came up should have looked into this and it didn’t. I’m not sure how we fix it.” > > \ > > “We saw what happened when President Clinton was impeached, I say this half in jest and half seriously, because hey it’s easy to laugh at President Clinton, but as a result of impeaching President Clinton, we’ve redefined what sex is to a lot of our young people and we’ve said it’s OK to lie to Congress,” he said. “I think that’s been woven into the thread of our society. And that failed impeachment attempt has actually damaged the country. What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away with what he’s impeached for and is found innocent? What do we say then is OK? > > “Aside from the fact it wouldn’t be effective, I think there is some potential damage to society that would be done with a failed attempt to impeach him.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=512) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=514)