# 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:** 535
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10681 "2013-09-26T00:14:14Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Skimming Mr. Powell’s remarks, it appears God is particularly angry at Obama’s quest to overturn the Second Amendment. Well, He should be! Did not Jesus teach us, “Whosoever should take your cloak, make the bastard eat lead”? ---
**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:** [September 26, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10682 "2013-09-26T00:18:52Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, He should be! Did not Jesus teach us, “Whosoever should take your cloak, make the bastard eat lead”? Ah, Glck 22:40. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10683 "2013-09-26T00:45:05Z")
“Adam begat Cain, who shot Abel in the fucking face.” ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10684 "2013-09-26T01:12:51Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > “Adam begat Cain, who shot Abel in the fucking face.” I’m pretty sure the NRA-esque argument would be that if Abel had had a gun, he could have protected himself from Cain. Clearly, the moral of the story is that Eden needed proper concealed carry laws. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10685 "2013-09-26T01:54:14Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Does Ted Cruz remember the moral of _ **Green Eggs and Ham** _? > > If you try something, you might find out you actually like it, even if you didn’t think you were going to. > > Maybe he should have read his daughters \*\*\*Mugged \*\*\*instead. I wonder if that was the intention of Cruz, he is indeed afraid that many republicans too will like it after trying it. And afraid of people finally finding that a lot of what Cruz and others told them were mostly lies. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10686 "2013-09-26T03:07:41Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I won’t try to summarize Mr. Powell’s teachings. What’s clear is that [Comet Ison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2012_S1) is on its way to save us from the Antichrist but, instead of bringing the Rapture immediately, God may want to first rub our noses in our sinful election of the Antichrist. Skimming Mr. Powell’s remarks, it appears God is particularly angry at Obama’s quest to overturn the Second Amendment. God is 'Murrican, duh. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10687 "2013-09-26T03:57:47Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Does Ted Cruz remember the moral of _ **Green Eggs and Ham** _? > > If you try something, you might find out you actually like it, even if you didn’t think you were going to. And then you’ll die of botulism, as anyone would after eating green eggs and ham, and the Obamacare Death Panels will just write you off. 😉 ---
**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:** [September 26, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10688 "2013-09-26T04:09:06Z")
It might be a subject for GQ, but I’m not really sure the botulinum bacillus would be a likely factor in anything you would get from eggs and ham of any color. Those don’t tend to be anaerobic environments for bacterial growth, do they? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10689 "2013-09-26T05:14:13Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > It might be a subject for GQ, but I’m not really sure the botulinum bacillus would be a likely factor in anything you would get from eggs and ham of any color. Those don’t tend to be anaerobic environments for bacterial growth, do they? It was a canned ham. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10690 "2013-09-26T05:40:44Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > It was a canned ham. Which brings us back to Ted Cruz. The “ham” part, that is; the “canned” part is, alas, wishful thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10691 "2013-09-26T12:42:21Z")
“Will the senator from Texas for the record tell us now – and those who watched this debate – whether he is protected and his family’s protected?” Durbin asked Wednesday morning, repeating a question he’d been trying to get Cruz to answer. “I’m happy to tell you now I am eligible for it and I am not currently covered under it,” Cruz responded" Wow. It appears Cruz in covered under his wife’s plan. She works for Goldman Sachs. Top executives at Goldman Sachs have their premiums paid by the company. “According to a 2009 New York Times report, top executive officers and managing directors at the bank participate in a health care program that costs Goldman more than $40,000 in premiums for each particpant’s family annually.” [Ted Cruz Apparently Gets His Health Insurance From Goldman Sachs | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/ted-cruz-dick-durbin_n_3992395.html) Wow. At $40.000 a year, that’s gotta be some pretty nice health insurance. I’m sure Cruz opposes the ACA because he thinks folks should just get a plan like his. Bootstraps and all that. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10692 "2013-09-26T13:46:42Z")
Huh. And I thought that “taxing Cadillac plans” thing was a myth. That’s not a Cadillac plan, it’s a fucking _Rolls-Royce chauffered by Lewis Hamilton_ plan! ---
**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:** [September 26, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10693 "2013-09-26T14:14:42Z")
The [N.Y. Times has a graphic](http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/how-did-conservatives-get-this-radical/?src=me&ref=general) comparing Tea Party conservatives and Non-Tea Party conservatives. For example, 78% of the former “in general hope that Obama’s policies will fail” compared with only 36% of the latter. The split was 29% to 60% on “Do you approve of Obama as a person.” 38% of Tea-Party conservatives think “Obama was born in the United States.” (I find the non-Tea figure here to be scary: only 52%.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10694 "2013-09-26T16:59:36Z")
Somebody actually _married_ that blazing asshole? The generosity of women never ceases to astound me. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10695 "2013-09-26T17:23:59Z")
One doesn’t often hear Goldman Sachs people called “generous” very often. I had to check to make sure which one you were calling a blazing asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10696 "2013-09-26T17:52:12Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I wonder if that was the intention of Cruz, he is indeed afraid that many republicans too will like it after trying it. And afraid of people finally finding that a lot of what Cruz and others told them were mostly lies. I saw bits of Cruz’ speech on The Daily Show last night. I know that people say he’s crazy like a Fox, but unless TDS cut and pasted it for maximum absurdity, then I’m not sure how Cruz’ presidential ambitions are going to survive this self-inflicted broadside. Duck Dynasty? Green Eggs and Ham? Random babbling? It’s like a smorgasbord of attack ad ammo. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10697 "2013-09-26T18:00:23Z")
Personally, I don’t think Cruz wants to be President. He wants to be known as the highest ranking elected official who never compromised his (idiotic) standards, and he wan’t to eventually retire to Fox or some nuthouse think tank like the Heartland Institute. I can’t recall who it was that Rachel Maddow used joke about as someone doing performance art rather than taking a principled stand. Cruz strikes me more as a performance artist. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10698 "2013-09-26T18:06:13Z")
Herman Cain, probably. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10699 "2013-09-26T18:06:43Z")
The Pizza Guy, the “9-9-9” doofus, Whats-his-face. Herman Cain. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10700 "2013-09-26T18:20:57Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > The Pizza Guy, the “9-9-9” doofus, Whats-his-face. Herman Cain. Don’t forget his Pokemon lyrics poem. That’s what proved he was in on the joke, to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=534) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=536)