# 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:** 582
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11621 "2013-11-06T15:02:06Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > “OK, so I want you eggheads to experiment and do whatever it is you do to prove my preconceived conclusion. That’s how science works, right ?” Whatever happened to those “scientists” that tobacco companies used to hire who would discover that cigarettes had antioxidants and vitamin C and rainbows? You’d think they’d jump at this chance. Maybe they all died of lung cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11622 "2013-11-06T15:10:56Z")
I believe they all moved on to AGW - [Merchants of Doubt - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11623 "2013-11-06T15:16:21Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > “OK, so I want you eggheads to experiment and do whatever it is you do to prove my preconceived conclusion. That’s how science works, right ?” I don’t think they even want them to experiment. Did you see the [timeline and the budget](http://www.omaha.com/article/20131024/NEWS/131029338/1707#state-climate-change-study-may-go-begging-for-scientists) for this study? > [@](#): > > The study is to be completed next year and cost no more than $44,000. I’m in the humanities, and i’ve never been in charge of a scientific investigation, but i have some sense of how grants and budgets work, and for 44 grand you can do jack shit. This offer basically says, “We want someone to sit down and write a report that tells us what we want to hear.” ---
**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:** [November 6, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11624 "2013-11-06T15:17:32Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, that and being 1500 miles inland. 😉 I saw an interview with the guy who originally introduced the study- it was supposed to study all aspects of climate change since it is predicted temperatures in Nebraska are to rise 8 degrees by the end of the century. But the geniuses in the Unicameral changed it to only study ‘cyclical’ climate change. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11625 "2013-11-06T17:10:19Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I’m in the humanities, and i’ve never been in charge of a scientific investigation, but i have some sense of how grants and budgets work, and for 44 grand you can do jack shit. This offer basically says, “We want someone to sit down and write a report that tells us what we want to hear.” That really is chump change. Even if you farm it out to a university, they’ll still take 20%-50% off the top for administration and overhead. So you’re getting maybe 3-6 months of post-doc time. That will pay for a reasonably detailed compilation of existing material and maybe a few recommendations pasted on top of it, but won’t cover any sort of original research (which means that there’s little incentive for an academic research to want to do this, even if you ignore the possibility of igniting some sort of political shitstorm in the process of writing the document). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11626 "2013-11-06T18:15:33Z")
[Leave Rand Paul alone](http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/363246/rand-paul-fights-press-robert-costa), says Rand Paul: > [@](#): > > In an interview with National Review Online on Capitol Hill, Paul was furious, especially with the press coverage of the allegations. “It annoys the hell out of me,” Paul said. “I feel like if I could just go to detention after school for a couple days, then everything would be okay. But do I have to be in detention for the rest of my career?” ---
**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:** [November 6, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11627 "2013-11-06T21:28:50Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > It is in Nebraska. Anyway, AGW does not appear in the Bible, so clearly it isn’t something we need to be worried about. What we need to worry about is God’s-wrath-induced climate change. Potential Texas GOP senate candidate[David Barton](http://freakoutnation.com/2013/11/04/potential-senate-candidate-david-barton-abortion-caused-climate-change/) lays out the watertight theory best: [And naturally abortion is one of the causes for God’s global climate changing punishments](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barton-its-not-global-warming-its-judgment-god). I’m so relieved to hear that such Godly nations who forbid abortions such as the Philippines, Maldives, and Bangladesh will remain untouched by rising sea levels. I note that[he’s no longer in the running for senator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClAkDAvA4I&feature=youtu.be). (I think the Tea Party losses last night had something to do with that). A pity–had he been elected by Texans, I promise you he would have made Senator Ted Cruz the equivalent of Kurt Gödel when it came to political rhetoric. > [@](#): > > [From NPR](http://www.npr.org/2012/08/08/157754542/the-most-influential-evangelist-youve-never-heard-of): He says [David Barton] they had insights on other modern issues as well. They would oppose abortion because the first inalienable right is the right to life. They even opposed the theory of evolution. > > “You go back to the Founding Fathers, as far as they’re concerned, they already had the entire debate on creation-evolution,” he said on Daystar Television Network. “And you get Thomas Paine, who’s the least religious Founding Father saying, ‘You’ve GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.’” > > Of course, that was years before Charles Darwin was born. Maybe the GOP’s decided to let off the pedal while going full retard. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11628 "2013-11-07T19:18:16Z")
I don’t even know _what_ to say about[the Daily Caller’s latest argument against ENDA](http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/gays-now-totally-boring-enda-struggle-reveals/), the bill to protect LBGT people from workplace discrimination; [QUOTE=Daily Caller] Back in the day, gays were subversive adventurers, trolling the city streets at night on a lustful quest for experience and with an outlaw mentality not seen since the days of the Wild West. They were decadently-dressed sexual superheroes, daring Middle America to condemn them as they pranced their corseted, high-heeled bodies around to midnightscreenings of great American movies like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Pink Flamingoes,” and “Mommy Dearest.” They had an ingrained creativity, a patented sense of irony. They had a brand. They had an identity. […] The progressives hosed all of that activity down. The progressives have filled the back-alley glory holes with [MoveOn.org](http://MoveOn.org) petitions. They have condemned clubs named “The Toilet” and erected phone-banking operations for Media Matters. They have taken away your leather costumes and dressed you in Obama-Biden T-shirts. They have taken away your poppers and your molly and handed you $14 apple martinis. [/QUOTE] _What?_ ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11629 "2013-11-07T19:34:13Z")
What even the fuck… ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11630 "2013-11-07T19:37:50Z")
I’d say someone is projecting but WHAT THE FUCK? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11631 "2013-11-07T19:44:12Z")
So these social-religious conservatives who morally disapprove of homosexuality are at the same time nostalgic for its glory-hole days?! Or, at least, they’re trying to tell the gays **they** should be nostalgic . . . No doubt the Daily Caller crowd would much prefer an America where they can point at the half-underground gay lifestyle as something seedy and sleazy. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11632 "2013-11-07T19:45:26Z")
Well, someone may be trolling, but it’s not the old school gays… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11633 "2013-11-07T19:46:27Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > [And naturally abortion is one of the causes for God’s global climate changing punishments](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barton-its-not-global-warming-its-judgment-god). I’m so relieved to hear that such Godly nations who forbid abortions such as the Philippines, Maldives, and Bangladesh will remain untouched by rising sea levels. > > I note that[he’s no longer in the running for senator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClAkDAvA4I&feature=youtu.be). (I think the Tea Party losses last night had something to do with that). A pity–had he been elected by Texans, I promise you he would have made Senator Ted Cruz the equivalent of Kurt Gödel when it came to political rhetoric. > > Maybe the GOP’s decided to let off the pedal while going full retard. At least he **counts** Thomas Paine as a Founding Father, that’s a minor victory. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11634 "2013-11-07T19:54:59Z")
"…movies like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Pink Flamingoes,” and “Mommy Dearest.” " I’ve seen all 3 of these movies, and one was at a midnight showing. That’s gotta mean I’m at least bi, right? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11635 "2013-11-07T20:09:32Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > "…movies like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Pink Flamingoes,” and “Mommy Dearest.” " > > I’ve seen all 3 of these movies, and one was at a midnight showing. > That’s gotta mean I’m at least bi, right? Depends on who you cosplay as and how well you know the call-and-responses, I guess. You’d think he’d have mentioned “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”, but maybe his knowledge of gay culture hasn’t made it to the '90s yet. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11636 "2013-11-07T20:43:28Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > "…movies like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Pink Flamingoes,” and “Mommy Dearest.” " > > I’ve seen all 3 of these movies, and one was at a midnight showing. > That’s gotta mean I’m at least bi, right? You can call yourself bi if you want to, but you still don’t get a toaster. I checked. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11637 "2013-11-07T20:51:48Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > You can call yourself bi if you want to, but you still don’t get a toaster. > > I checked. :mad: I swear to God that was the funniest episode of a TV comedy I’ve ever seen. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11638 "2013-11-08T18:07:54Z")
[Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site discovered](http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/new-denial-of-service-attack-aimed-directly-at-healthcare-gov/) Okay, maybe it’s not exactly stupid (except that the expert quoted says it probably won’t actually do much harm to the site), and there’s no explicit sign that Republicans are behind it (but c’mon: possibly “developed by an Obamacare supporter with the hope of discrediting critics”? Really?!?), but I thought this was the best place for it. (And I didn’t fee like creating a whole new Pit thread on it myself.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11639 "2013-11-08T19:33:45Z")
Any instance of [still refusing to let go of Birtherism already](http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2013/11/07/owen-hill-we-already-have-someone-from-kenya-as-president-of-the-united-states/102429/) always counts as a SRIOTD. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11640 "2013-11-08T20:04:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Any instance of [still refusing to let go of Birtherism already](http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2013/11/07/owen-hill-we-already-have-someone-from-kenya-as-president-of-the-united-states/102429/) always counts as a SRIOTD. When I clicked I assumed it would be some Fox-bot, or an ‘Audit-the-FRB’ Paulist or some other sort of Brickhead. Nope, it’s a Colorado State Senator vying to become a U.S. Senator. In his defense, his tripe is two way: sincere for his target voters, but “just a joke” when questioned about it by sentient beings: [QUOTE=Owen Hill] The fact that my obvious joke is being highlighted today just shows how worried Mark Udall and the Democrats actually are of my campaign for the U.S. Senate here in Colorado. These are the typical sleazy tactics used by Mark Udall’s radical operatives who are scared of losing their go to guy in Washington DC. Such dishonest antics show how desperate the Mark Udall machine is over losing its stranglehold on our economy, diverting folks from focusing on his inept Obamacare rollout. [/QUOTE] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=581) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=583)