# 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:** 574
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11461 "2013-10-28T18:13:55Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > This one is straight out of Kansas, so I think it is safe to say it is a Republican idea. Stupid? In spades! From [here](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-09/kansas-s-self-destruct-button-a-bill-to-outlaw-sustainability.html): > > No kidding, text of the bill [here.](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/measures/documents/hb2366_00_0000.pdf) > > Oh, thank God the wise leaders in Kansas are saving us all from the liberal conspiracy to meet human needs- not only now, but _in the future,_ those bastards :eek: Clearly those relentless librulz just want more survivors to kneel before Zod, don’t say you weren’t warned!!!11!!! I read this as another GOP election year plank. Another thought, group, outlook to demonize, hate and rally the [del]unthinking morons[/del] base against. ---
**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 28, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11462 "2013-10-28T18:17:49Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Oh, thank God the wise leaders in Kansas are saving us all from the liberal conspiracy to meet human needs- not only now, but _in the future,_ those bastards [To sum up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvvmT3ab80). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11463 "2013-10-28T18:28:34Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 11,500+ posts in over 4.5 years, and no sign of slowing down, let alone stopping. > > Hell, I check this thread as part of my daily newsgathering at this point. I check this thread before talking to my Government classes every morning. We always find something amusing/scary/bewildering to discuss. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11464 "2013-10-28T19:07:29Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > It will be interesting to see if the money can push out the nutters. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Well, the money is what pushed the nutters in there in the first place. There’s money and then there’s MONEY. [The Tea Party is a mainly a movement of “local notables”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=704287) – millionaires but not billionaires. Most of the 1% and big-corporate America have a different agenda. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11465 "2013-10-28T19:12:32Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > There’s money and then there’s MONEY. [The Tea Party is a mainly a movement of “local notables”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=704287) – millionaires but not billionaires. Most of the 1% and big-corporate America have a different agenda. I read that as saying that it was the MONEY that courted the Tea Party and its precursors, thinking they could be controlled. In that sense, it’s a little like the German nobility courting the Nazis as a useful ally against the Communists, thinking that they would be in the drivers seat perpetually. Note that I’m NOT calling the Tea Party Nazis, just noting that similarity in the situation. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11466 "2013-10-28T19:17:41Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I read that as saying that it was the MONEY that courted the Tea Party and its precursors, thinking they could be controlled. [Well, some.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tea_party_movement#Astroturf_organisation) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11467 "2013-10-28T20:35:15Z")
> [@Karrius](#): > > [It’s really amazing when republicans are honest about their beliefs, namely, rich white Christians deserve more money and everyone else should just starve to death. Class warfare, anyone?](http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/rafael-cruz-father-ted-cruz-wants-great-transfer-wealth-hands-evangelicals-himself) This is Rafael Cruz? > [@](#): > > The father of right wing Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the most visible leader of the now-ended government shutdown, is seen in recently uncovered videos calling for America to be ruled by “kings” who will take money from anyone who is not an evangelical Christian and deliver it into the hands of fundamentalist preachers and their acolytes. I thought he was just a Castroista sleeper\* agent provocateur\*, but apparently he thinks he’s a Latin “King”? Somebody may want to tell the [King of Kings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Kings_(gang)) that Señor Cruz is infringing on his trademark? ---
**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 28, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11468 "2013-10-28T20:42:26Z")
Dear Texas Tea Party. [You lose](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57609604/judge-rules-controversial-texas-abortion-law-unconstitutional/). Go cry in the corner and try not to wet yourselves this time you cheating little shitbags. ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11469 "2013-10-28T21:12:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > There’s money and then there’s MONEY. [The Tea Party is a mainly a movement of “local notables”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=704287) – millionaires but not billionaires. Most of the 1% and big-corporate America have a different agenda. Dunno BG, looks like some of the Tea Party factions have some pretty heavy hitters on the rolls, when they can make it [rain](http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/10/26/what_to_learn_about_the_tea_party_from_freedomworks_s_tax_forms.html) ~ 4 mill a year each… ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11470 "2013-10-28T21:38:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > There’s money and then there’s MONEY. [The Tea Party is a mainly a movement of “local notables”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=704287) – millionaires but not billionaires. Most of the 1% and big-corporate America have a different agenda. I thought the Kochs were big funders of Tea Party groups? There’s not many richer than those two (or is it 3?) individually, much less together. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11471 "2013-10-28T21:46:06Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Dear Texas Tea Party. [You lose](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57609604/judge-rules-controversial-texas-abortion-law-unconstitutional/). > > Go cry in the corner and try not to wet yourselves this time you cheating little shitbags. N.B.: To the TP, social issues like abortion are of secondary importance or none; their literature and rally-signs seem never even to mention such things. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11472 "2013-10-28T21:48:32Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I thought the Kochs were big funders of Tea Party groups? There’s not many richer than those two (or is it 3?) individually, much less together. The Kochs are causeheads. Most of their class are less ideological and more bottom-line, and not at all against biggummint so long as bigbiznis gets its lucrative government contracts. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11473 "2013-10-28T22:20:29Z")
> [@Babyeater Bohemoth](#): > > 11,500+ posts in over 4.5 years, and no sign of slowing down, let alone stopping. > > Hell, I check this thread as part of my daily newsgathering at this point. You know, I’m surprised this thread hasn’t been mentioned on the Huffpo or Slate or some similar website. I can’t imagine there is a better collection of “Stupid Republican Ideas” on the entire net. If you could somehow turn this thread into a book, it would be a best seller. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11474 "2013-10-28T22:35:29Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > If you could somehow turn this thread into a book, it would be a best seller. You could put two different covers on it and sell it to both sides. Some Republicans seem to think that these are all great ideas. ---
**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 28, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11475 "2013-10-28T22:50:30Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Dear Texas Tea Party. [You lose](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57609604/judge-rules-controversial-texas-abortion-law-unconstitutional/). > > Go cry in the corner and try not to wet yourselves this time you cheating little shitbags. Steady on. There’s at least one round of appeals to be heard first. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11476 "2013-10-28T23:17:24Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I read that as saying that it was the MONEY that courted the Tea Party and its precursors, thinking they could be controlled. In that sense, it’s a little like the German nobility courting the Nazis as a useful ally against the Communists, thinking that they would be in the drivers seat perpetually. Note that I’m NOT calling the Tea Party Nazis, just noting that similarity in the situation. Weimar Republicans ---
**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 29, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11477 "2013-10-29T01:42:15Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > N.B.: To the TP, social issues like abortion are of secondary importance or none; their literature and rally-signs seem never even to mention such things. And yet their rise to power came with a vasthost of the most stringent anti-abortion laws ever brought to the states. They seemed to think that the start of balanced budgets was to introduce as many laws to destroy Planned Parenthood as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11478 "2013-10-29T02:37:11Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I read this as another GOP election year plank. > > Another thought, group, outlook to demonize, hate and rally the [del]unthinking morons[/del] base against. Yes, perhaps. But if taken to its logical conclusion it would mean monetizing all Kansas resources immediately. It is unutterably stupid. If passed by the Kansas legislature, I question if even Ayatollah Brownback would have the stones to sign it. ---
**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 29, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11479 "2013-10-29T02:41:31Z")
> [@Babyeater Bohemoth](#): > > [url=[http://bigstory.ap.org/article/graham-says-hell-block-nominations-over-benghazi](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/graham-says-hell-block-nominations-over-benghazi)] > > And if that doesn’t get him the damning testimony he wants, he’ll hold up all nominations until every resident of Benghazi testifies, presumably. :rolleyes: Next to shutting down the government, this one has potential to be the most stupid idea of the year. Edit: (Graham to stop every single nomination that the Senate must approve.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11480 "2013-10-29T02:52:18Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Next to shutting down the government, this one has potential to be **the most stupid idea of the year**. Interesting thought. In the 4.5 years of this thread, has there ever been a playoff? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=573) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=575)