# 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:** 545
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10881 "2013-10-03T19:46:01Z")
> [@drew870mitchell](#): > > Sorry, you seem to have misposted this. You were looking for the “Loathsome Republican of the Day” thread. > > At least it was on video. I’d like to hope that’s the kind of video that sinks re-election campaigns. Don’t really care if they replace him with a nuttier guy in a primary. He just deserves to go. Then someone needs to point this part out: > [@](#): > > The Park Service has been allowing World War II vets who have traveled from all over the country to enter the memorial, even though it’s closed during the government shutdown; the rangers say they are exercising their First Amendment rights as they let the veterans in. > > **But they are keeping the rest of the public out of the facility, which is officially closed. And that did not sit well with the congressman,** reported News4’s Mark Segraves, who witnessed the confrontation. The spoiled brat wanted his photo op at the memorial, and had a tantrum when the people who served their country were let in but he had to stomp off. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10882 "2013-10-03T19:49:55Z")
[Meanwhile, one Republican lawmaker has already blamed Obama’s “violent rhetoric” for causing today’s shooting at the Capitol.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/03/republican-lawmaker-blames-obama-and-congressional-dems-within-minutes-of-capitol-shooting/) ---
**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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10883 "2013-10-03T20:12:10Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I came to post this. I’m not normally inclined to violence, but fuck if I don’t want to punch this scumbag in the face. If you do, I can just hear your defense attorney now: “If the Congressman is a shit, you must acquit.” You’d be walking in no time. ---
**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, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10884 "2013-10-03T20:13:39Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > Things are developing so fast and furious here that maybe we should make a “Stupid Republican Idea of the Hour” thread. I hope they implemented the post count with a long int ---
**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, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10885 "2013-10-03T20:25:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Meanwhile, one Republican lawmaker has already blamed Obama’s “violent rhetoric” for causing today’s shooting at the Capitol.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/03/republican-lawmaker-blames-obama-and-congressional-dems-within-minutes-of-capitol-shooting/) Obama’s violent rhetoric requires a “Second Amendment solution”! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10886 "2013-10-03T20:30:19Z")
And walked it back. Only took him about half an hour to get smarter, which is encouraging. ---
**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, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10887 "2013-10-03T20:35:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > And walked it back. Only took him about half an hour to get smarter, which is encouraging. A congressional aide probably had to explain to him why it was such a bad idea, using diagrams, hand gestures and puppets. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10888 "2013-10-04T00:27:16Z")
If you’ve taken great pains to unite a base on the claim the opposition is truly immoral, corrupt and evil it makes you look bad if you even compromise a little. It’s very difficult for representatives to ‘sell’ what constitutes governance to such people. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10889 "2013-10-04T02:18:03Z")
We are seeing many layers of stupidity going on: [http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ted-cruz-blasted-by-angry-gop-colleagues-government-shutdown-97753.html?hp=t2\_3](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ted-cruz-blasted-by-angry-gop-colleagues-government-shutdown-97753.html?hp=t2_3) > [@](#): > > “It was very evident to everyone in the room that Cruz doesn’t have a strategy – he never had a strategy, and could never answer a question about what the end-game was,” said one [Republican] senator who attended the meeting. “I just wish the 35 House members that have bought the snake oil that was sold could witness what was witnessed today at lunch.” Translation: “We fucked up, and we are even more fucked as we Republicans do not have the guts to confront the stupidity of our extremists in the open.” It also riffs on the old “You fucked up; you trusted us!” Ideas of the Bush the lesser era. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10890 "2013-10-04T02:47:36Z")
Ted Cruz thinks he’s John Galt. In his fantasies, he’s re-enacting that endless scene where the triumphant Galt lays down the law to the moochers and collectivists. (My memory, praise the Goddess, is starting to fade. What was that fucker, like, fifty pages of tiresome sophomoric philosophy?) ---
**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:** [October 4, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10891 "2013-10-04T02:58:32Z")
Being a humble man, I’m crediting indolence and luck rather than good sound judgement for the fact that I never read it. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10892 "2013-10-04T03:13:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Being a humble man, I’m crediting indolence and luck rather than good sound judgement for the fact that I never read it. I read Galt’s speech. Well, “read” in the same way that Wendy Torrance read her husband Jack’s novel. I read the first page, started to become overwhelmed and unsettled, flipped to the next page, had my eyes start to go all googly, and then began flipping pages and pages more rapidly, tearing up and becoming scared about just how out of touch with reality a mind would have to be to have written something like that. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” ---
**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:** [October 4, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10893 "2013-10-04T03:24:48Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Ted Cruz thinks he’s John Galt. In his fantasies, he’s re-enacting that endless scene where the triumphant Galt lays down the law to the moochers and collectivists. > > (My memory, praise the Goddess, is starting to fade. What was that fucker, like, fifty pages of tiresome sophomoric philosophy?) 57 pages. Page 936-993, Signet paperback edition AE3215. You left out “self-congratulatory” and “ridiculous”. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10894 "2013-10-04T04:15:50Z")
Who is John Galt? Where is Judge Crater? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10895 "2013-10-04T04:16:39Z")
Why is Ted Cruz? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10896 "2013-10-04T06:31:45Z")
Who is Spain? Why is Hitler? When is right? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10897 "2013-10-04T07:16:28Z")
A which! A which! ---
**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:** [October 4, 2013, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10898 "2013-10-04T09:03:38Z")
Why a duck? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10899 "2013-10-04T09:24:52Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > I read Galt’s speech. Well, “read” in the same way that Wendy Torrance read her husband Jack’s novel. I read the first page, started to become overwhelmed and unsettled, flipped to the next page, had my eyes start to go all googly, and then began flipping pages and pages more rapidly As did I but my reaction was more one of boredom combined with sheer interest in length (but it’s true that a less out-of-touch monologue would be more interesting.) “Let’s see if it ends after a couple more pages…okay, skip ahead a little more…thicker turn this time…still not done…okay a _big-ass_ turn this time…OMG THIS IS THE LONGEST FUCKING MONOLOGUE EVER…” … picks up book to throw across room, can’t, Dad’s book. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10900 "2013-10-04T09:37:54Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > As did I but my reaction was more one of boredom combined with sheer interest in length (but it’s true that a less out-of-touch monologue would be more interesting.) “Let’s see if it ends after a couple more pages…okay, skip ahead a little more…thicker turn this time…still not done…okay a _big-ass_ turn this time…OMG THIS IS THE LONGEST FUCKING MONOLOGUE EVER…” … picks up book to throw across room, can’t, Dad’s book. Alternative version: “picks up book to throw across room, can’t, fucking gigantic book.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=544) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=546)