# 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:** 547
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10921 "2013-10-04T23:18:05Z")
> [@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, 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.” Heh. I actually read the whole thing, carefully, and took notes. I loved the way Rand stacked the deck. For instance, if she believes A, but I might happen to believe B instead, she’ll say things like, “You must not take the cowardly short cut of holding that B…” Never anything rational, like, “Some people might believe B.” Everything has to be tautological. A very “Hobson’s Choice” variety of philosophy, given her lip service to freedom and individual liberty. It’s worth reading in a forensic sort of way. You can see the corpse of actual rationality, dismembered and strewn about after a violent attack of insane emotional anguish. ---
**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, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10922 "2013-10-04T23:18:05Z")
> [@](#): > > That’s the Minnesota that’s the Land of Zero Lakes, right? Its the one filled with brittle, ironic sophisticates who are totally blasé about another Super Bowl win, and don’t what a can of cream of mushroom soup looks like. ---
**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 5, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10923 "2013-10-05T12:06:58Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > The GOP is going to make the Democrats talk to empty chairs for a change. > [Republicans may boycott CNN, NBC presidential debates.](http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-usa-politics-republicans-boston-idUSBRE97F08720130816) > [@](#): > > Delegates to a meeting of the Republican National Committee voted for a resolution that included the boycott and said the programs would be “little more than extended commercials promoting former Secretary Clinton.” > > The RNC also resolved that it would require that any future debates have “appropriate moderators and debate partners.” Neither project will be made. From what I can tell neither was abandoned due to the GOP debate thing, but for reasons related to the projects. Will the GOP now relent with CNN and NBC? Maybe . . . or their fear of those networks might still keep them away. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10924 "2013-10-05T12:10:45Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Will the GOP now relent with CNN and NBC? They will come up with another reason to make their appearance conditional on bullshit concessions by the networks. ---
**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 5, 2013, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10925 "2013-10-05T12:15:11Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Ted Cruz hopes to shake off his “birther” issues be renouncing his Canadian citizenship. Well, apparently [it’s more complicated](http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/20/us-usa-politics-cruz-canada-idUSBRE97J0S220130820) than [going to a Canada Post all-services window and announcing “Canada sucks. I quit.”](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/841/how-do-i-go-about-renouncing-my-u-s-citizenship): > [@](#): > > U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, who says he recently discovered he is likely a Canadian, must win security clearance from Canada’s spy agency, fill out a four-page form and then wait up to eight months to sever his ties to America’s northern neighbor… **Geographically Challenged Tea Party Member Says Canada Is ‘Not Really Foreign Soil’ (VIDEO)** [http://samuel-warde.com/2013/08/geographically-challenged-tea-party-member-says-canada-is-not-really-foreign-soil-video/](http://samuel-warde.com/2013/08/geographically-challenged-tea-party-member-says-canada-is-not-really-foreign-soil-video/) Happened at a Texas Teahadist meeting. Of course their own Teddy Cruz must be eligible to be president, but Hawaii is still foreign soil. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10926 "2013-10-05T16:43:45Z")
Being Canadian myself, I hope Cruz fulfills his promise to renounce his Canadian citizenship. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10927 "2013-10-05T16:54:32Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Being Canadian myself, I hope Cruz fulfills his promise to renounce his Canadian citizenship. I’m hoping someone switches paperwork and he renounces his American citizenship. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10928 "2013-10-05T17:01:14Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Why is Ted Cruz? Because one of its legs is both the same! ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10929 "2013-10-05T17:19:38Z")
The dumb fuck [didn’t even realize that he was Canadian as well as American](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/19/cruz-will-renounce-canadian-citizenship/). > [@](#): > > “Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, because I left Calgary when I was 4 and have lived my entire life since then in the U.S., and because I have never taken affirmative steps to claim Canadian citizenship, I assumed that was the end of the matter,” Cruz said. Good thing he wasn’t born in Hawaii, for then there’d be a huge citizenship problem. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10930 "2013-10-05T17:41:02Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > The dumb fuck [didn’t even realize that he was Canadian as well as American](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/19/cruz-will-renounce-canadian-citizenship/). > > Good thing he wasn’t born in Hawaii, for then there’d be a huge citizenship problem. > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Sin City** > Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big and getting the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you’ve got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true you’ve got 'em by the balls. The point of the exercise is the hypocrisy. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10931 "2013-10-05T18:29:14Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Being Canadian myself, I hope Cruz fulfills his promise to renounce his Canadian citizenship. How much would it cost to keep him? ---
**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 5, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10932 "2013-10-05T18:55:39Z")
Meanwhile, Darrell Issa has demanded that a federal court, whose workers are on furlough because of a shutdown he voted to create, require said employees be ordered to come in and work without pay in order to expedite his argument that “Fast and Furious” (remember that? Ah, 2010. It was a _simpler_ time) is all Obama’s fault. [The judge was not amused;](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/10/fast_and_furious_judge_amy_berman_jackson_lets_congress_know_what_she_thinks.html) [QUOTE=Judge Jackson] There are no exigent circumstances in this case that would justify an order of the Court forcing furloughed attorneys to return to their desks. Moreover, while the vast majority of litigants who now must endure a delay in the progress of their matters do so due to circumstances beyond their control, that cannot be said of the House of Representatives, which has played a role in the shutdown that prompted the stay motion. [/QUOTE] ---
**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 5, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10933 "2013-10-05T19:16:43Z")
[http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20130930-r.i.-gop-offers-assault-rifle-in-fundraising-raffle-poll.ece](http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20130930-r.i.-gop-offers-assault-rifle-in-fundraising-raffle-poll.ece) **R.I. GOP offers assault rifle in fundraising raffle/ Poll** > [@](#): > > WEST GREENWICH — Buy a $5 raffle ticket from the Rhode Island GOP, and you can buy a chance to win an AR-15 semiautomatic assault-style rifle. > > Days after the General Assembly holds the first in a series of task force meetings on firearm safety and mental health, the state Republican Party is holding what it is calling “Rhode Island’s 2nd Amendment Celebration.” An AR-15 was used in the Newtown Connecticut school massacre last December. It’s about a two hour (125 miles) drive away. The party of stupid strikes again. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10934 "2013-10-05T20:51:17Z")
Interesting phrasing. They call the AR-15 “semiautomatic assault-style rifle”. Tip-toe through the semantic minefield. ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10935 "2013-10-05T21:59:56Z")
The guy just wants to watch his bigoted, racist, lying propaganda-filled news shows all day. Why do you have to be so mean? ---
**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 6, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10936 "2013-10-06T04:31:53Z")
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-ted-yoho-government-shutdown-is-the-tremor-before-the-tsunami/2013/10/04/98b5aa8c-2c3c-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e\_story.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-ted-yoho-government-shutdown-is-the-tremor-before-the-tsunami/2013/10/04/98b5aa8c-2c3c-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html) Louis Gohmert and Steve King have competition. This guy is a true looney. **For Rep. Ted Yoho, government shutdown is ‘the tremor before the tsunami’** > [@](#): > > “I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling.” > _snip_ > “I see one side of our government, or two-thirds of it, running 100 miles an hour toward socialism,” Yoho said, meaning Obama and the Democratic-led Senate. He knows people agree with him on that, he said, because he asks people about it at town-hall meetings: “ ‘How many people feel we’re heading into socialism?’ Hands go up.” > > So, Yoho said, conservatives “are like Fred and Barney in the Flintstone-mobile, trying to stop that.” This year, that meant trying to defund Obama’s health-care law, even at the risk of shutting down the government. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10937 "2013-10-06T04:52:45Z")
The Flintstones?? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10938 "2013-10-06T04:54:17Z")
Cave men. Troglodytes. People out of touch with the times. Left-behind relicts. Jokes. Anachronisms. All of the above… ---
**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 6, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10939 "2013-10-06T05:15:41Z")
So on January 20, 2017, when President-for-Life Obama takes the oath of office the Chief Justice will say, “Do you swear to uphold the Constitution and faithfully execute the laws of the United States of America?” Obama will reply, “I Yabba-dabba-Do!” ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10940 "2013-10-06T13:46:32Z")
_boggle_ This guy is describing his own side as cavemen? 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=546) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=548)