# 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:** 543
**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:** [October 2, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10841 "2013-10-02T21:25:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Stupid/Clever-as-a-Fox lying to achieve political points: > > [Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More](http://news.yahoo.com/political-comm...201949042.html) > Quote: > The National Republican Congressional Committee, which funds GOP House campaigns, tried to use the peaceful takeover of the World War II Memorial to gather email addresses. > > “DEMOCRATS SHUT DOWN WWII MEMORIAL,” the NRCC wrote in font normally reserved for funny cat photos. “GREATEST GENERATION STORMS THROUGH ANYWAYS.” My thought when I read about that: “Who is going to pick up the trash tonight?” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10842 "2013-10-02T21:33:34Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > What’s the angel’s Armor Class? Same as anything with feathers. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10843 "2013-10-02T21:38:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You mean “actually” gay, rather than just pretending for the extra votes? > > (Is it common for men who are “actually” gay to marry women so smoking hot they scorch footprints in the sidewalk when they barefoot?) [Rock Hudson.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hudson) [Phyllis Gates.](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3227827712/nm1787810?ref_=nm_phs_md_1) [Tom Cruise.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise)[Nicole Kidman.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Kidman)[Katie Holmes.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_holmes) [Liberace.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace)[Boom-chicka-boom-chicka-wow-wow- **WOW!**](http://www.bobsliberace.com/museum/museum.1.html) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10844 "2013-10-02T21:42:21Z")
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley . . . are a different kinda story, rather. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10845 "2013-10-02T21:47:06Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > What’s the angel’s Armor Class? AC 35, but in my mind the more important parts are fire resistance 10 and DR 15/epic and evil ([Cite](http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/angel.htm#angelSolar)) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10846 "2013-10-02T21:57:29Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I thought it was an open secret that Michelle’s husband was gay. No, that would be Michele. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10847 "2013-10-02T21:58:46Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > My thought when I read about that: “Who is going to pick up the trash tonight?” Well, the WWII Vets do traditionally hit the bars after these visits . . . ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10848 "2013-10-02T23:04:52Z")
I apologize if this has been mentioned but can we give a shoutout to House Dem from Indiana Todd Rokita who declared Obamacare “one of the most insidious laws created by man”. That’s right, as Jon Stewart pointed out, it is right up there with Jim Crow laws the Nuremburg Laws and the law which said the King could have sex with your bride-to-be on the night before your wedding. Also implicit in that statement is that there are some pretty insidious laws, no created by man…such as…the law of Gravitation? The Law of Supply and Demand? The Ten Commandments??? WHAT??? ---
**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:** [October 2, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10849 "2013-10-02T23:12:36Z")
You mean House Rep, I think. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10850 "2013-10-02T23:20:18Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > I apologize if this has been mentioned but can we give a shoutout to House Dem from Indiana Todd Rokita who declared Obamacare “one of the most insidious laws created by man”. That’s right, as Jon Stewart pointed out, it is right up there with Jim Crow laws the Nuremburg Laws and the law which said the King could have sex with your bride-to-be on the night before your wedding. Also implicit in that statement is that there are some pretty insidious laws, no created by man…such as…the law of Gravitation? The Law of Supply and Demand? The Ten Commandments??? WHAT??? Well, maybe by “most insidious” he did not mean “worst” but “sneakiest.” We get the thin end of the spike in here, the bare beginnings of social democracy, weak solution, the first hit’s free, people get hooked, it’s the hard stuff next, pure single-payer, and then we’re speedballing redistributive taxes and inflation-adjusted living-minimum wages and government job programs and labor-friendly legislation and worker’s-coop businesses and before you know it America is being run like **Sweden!** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10851 "2013-10-02T23:28:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > . . . and before you know it America is being run like **Sweden!** :eek: Oh, and if that means we have to have a King, dibs. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10852 "2013-10-02T23:35:40Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > You mean House Rep, I think. 😉 Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10853 "2013-10-02T23:55:48Z")
I’d just like to add that the latest strategy by the House Tea Partisans - to bring up individual bills to fund just certain governmental functions piecemeal - is so stupid the Tea Party folks think it’s brilliant. I mean, it’s just so transparent a ploy, funding things that people like, or that just pop up in the news (World War II memorial, NIH funding) in order to make the eeeevil libruls look like the bad guys for keeping the parks closed and killing those poor, cancer-stricken kids … that will never fool the American people, right? Right? Please God, let me be right … I think the Senate Democrats should play along. Let the House send their bill funding national parks. Add in funding for food stamps and send it back. They send a bill funding the VA, you add on funding for Planned Parenthood. “THAT’S the Chicago way!” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10854 "2013-10-03T00:18:34Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > I’d just like to add that the latest strategy by the House Tea Partisans - to bring up individual bills to fund just certain governmental functions piecemeal - is so stupid the Tea Party folks think it’s brilliant. > > I mean, it’s just so transparent a ploy, funding things that people like, or that just pop up in the news (World War II memorial, NIH funding) in order to make the eeeevil libruls look like the bad guys for keeping the parks closed and killing those poor, cancer-stricken kids … that will never fool the American people, right? Right? Please God, let me be right … [shrug] It will fool those who are already fooled. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10855 "2013-10-03T00:31:08Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > . . . I think the Senate Democrats should play along. Let the House send their bill funding national parks. Add in funding for food stamps and send it back. They send a bill funding the VA, you add on funding for Planned Parenthood. “THAT’S the Chicago way!” I like this! I really like the cut of your jib! The Democratic Party could benefit from hiring you as a strategist! It’s not only playing the game for all its worth, it’s also funny! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10856 "2013-10-03T00:57:31Z")
House Republicans are [seeking a congressional probe](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/house-republicans-dc-monument-closures-government-shutdown-97758.html?hp=f3) into why the DC parks and monuments were closed down… during the government shutdown. Just in case you were worried that your tax dollars weren’t well spent. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10857 "2013-10-03T01:07:36Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Yeah. On the plus side, Fox News should be making you a job offer any minute now. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10858 "2013-10-03T03:05:26Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > House Republicans are [seeking a congressional probe](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/house-republicans-dc-monument-closures-government-shutdown-97758.html?hp=f3) into why the DC parks and monuments were closed down… during the government shutdown. > > Just in case you were worried that your tax dollars weren’t well spent. OH MY GOD! It’s just like Bhengazi all over again! I think Obama personally ordered the Veterans to be beaten up! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10859 "2013-10-03T04:10:28Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > OH MY GOD! It’s just like Bhengazi all over again! > > I think Obama personally ordered the Veterans to be beaten up! > > :eek: No, that was me. I didn’t exactly order anything, I just let some German and Japanese WWII vets know they were going to be there. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10860 "2013-10-03T15:20:53Z")
This is absolutely disgusting, a republican Representative from Texas (whoo-hoo got it right this time), actually made a park service employee apologize for shutting down the WWII Memorial park. > **[GOP Congressman Makes Park Ranger Apologize for Shutdown](https://www.gawker.com/gop-congressman-makes-park-ranger-apologize-for-shutdow-1440577868)** > > In an astounding confrontation that took place yesterday at the World War II Memorial in DC, a Tea Party congressman from Texas appeared to blame the Park Service for denying veterans access to the facility — and then made a Park Ranger apologize for... This is not just sad it is simply appalling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=542) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=544)