# 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:** 625
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12481 "2014-01-24T00:58:51Z")
> [@Karrius](#): > > You have to wonder if Republicans realize women can vote. Maybe somebody should remind them? Women don’t seem to constitute much of a voting block, particularly conservative republican women. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12482 "2014-01-24T01:11:12Z")
[ > [@](#): > > Federal prosecutors said Dinesh D’Souza, who made the anti-Obama documentary “2016: Obama’s America,” was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on charges he directed $20,000 in illegal contributions to be made in the New York Senate race in 2012. The candidate he supported was Wendy Long, who lost to Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand. > > Prosecutors said he directed people to make the contributions to the campaign and then reimbursed them, which is a violation of election law that limits total contribution from one person to one candidate at $5,000. ]([http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obama-filmmaker-charged-ny-campaign-fraud](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obama-filmmaker-charged-ny-campaign-fraud)) I know the guy’s name and I remember that he made some bullshit documentary/commentary film about Obama, but from the article, the guy sure seems like a real piece of work,in a severely-ethically-challenged kind of way: > [@](#): > > Defense attorney Benjamin Brafman said D’Souza didn’t act “with any corrupt or criminal intent whatsoever.” > > He said, “It is important to note that the indictment does not allege a corrupt relationship between Mr. D’Souza and the candidate. There was never a corrupt agreement of any kind, nor was there any request made that the candidate take any action or refrain from taking any action as a candidate, or as a U.S. Senator if her political campaign were to have been successful.” > > In October 2012, D’Souza resigned as head of an evangelical college after becoming engaged to a woman while still married to his wife. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12483 "2014-01-24T01:30:38Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I know the guy’s name He became famous in the '90s when he published _Illiberal Education_—a diatribe against “political correctness”—and _The End of Racism_ ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12484 "2014-01-24T04:50:25Z")
That fucking guy, he’s got a smarminess that I can’t stand, I hope he gets time ---
**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:** [January 24, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12485 "2014-01-24T04:51:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) says the campus sexual assault problem is…[Obama’s fault](http://www.salon.com/2014/01/23/tony_perkins_blames_president_obama_for_campus_sexual_assault_crisis_in_bizarre_rant/). > [@](#): > > It wasn’t the police department that urged more than 50 universities to open their campuses to co-ed dorm rooms. It wasn’t the police who blamed sexual assault on drinking and drug use — and then proceeded to encourage ObamaCare Happy Hours and even endorse the decriminalization of marijuana. “I smoked pot as a kid,” the President told reporters last weekend, “and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.” OK, first : Perkins, your Family Research Council is basically a gay-bashing soapbox, you wouldn’t be any happier with segregated dorm rooms ! All those luscious young men, getting naked and sleeping right next to each other, in the privacy of the dark… to steal a phrase : oh _my_. Think about it. Think about it a whole lot. Rrrr. Second, I challenge you or anyone to provide a single instance of somebody, anybody, raping anyone while high on weed. I contend based on empirical experimental data that it is scientifically impossible, particularly if there’s a prospect of mac & cheese anywhere in the equation. \*Way \*too much effort. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2014, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12486 "2014-01-24T10:01:31Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > [Mike Huckabee helping the Republican’s image with women:](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/huckabee-dems-tell-women-they-can-t-control-their-libido) > > > [@](#): > > > > If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government then so be it! (emphasis added) I liked Paula Poundstone’s response on Twitter: > [@Paula Poundstone](#): > > Huckabee may be right. My libido robbed a liquor store this morning. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12487 "2014-01-24T14:12:58Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > That fucking guy, he’s got a smarminess that I can’t stand To say nothing of the fact that [he’s an America-hating pro-jihad appeasenik](http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2007/01/prominent-conservative-wants-alliance.html). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12488 "2014-01-24T15:21:17Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [ > I know the guy’s name and I remember that he made some bullshit documentary/commentary film about Obama, but from the article, the guy sure seems like a real piece of work,in a severely-ethically-challenged kind of way: > :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: [url=[Dinesh D'Souza - RationalWiki](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza)]Dinesh D’Souza.]([http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obama-filmmaker-charged-ny-campaign-fraud](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obama-filmmaker-charged-ny-campaign-fraud)) Quite a piece of work. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12489 "2014-01-24T15:24:46Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Dinesh D’Souza.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza) Quite a piece of work. > [@](#): > > While he has a great disdain for homosexuality, he has in fact dated Ann Coulter. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12490 "2014-01-24T16:38:43Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I liked Paula Poundstone’s response on Twitter: I have NEVER been on Twitter. Your post inspired me to sign up. Apparently, that makes me a hashtag. ETA: I read through some of the D’Souza stuff. I think I need a shower now. And a hug. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12491 "2014-01-24T16:49:29Z")
Scott Walker praises a sex offender in his [State of the State address](http://www.salon.com/2014/01/23/scott_walker_praises_sex_offender_christopher_barber_in_major_address/). Obviously his staff doesn’t know the meaning of “vetting.” ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12492 "2014-01-24T16:54:32Z")
Why does Scott Walker’s face always looks like he’s in the middle of the most boring orgasm on earth? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12493 "2014-01-24T16:55:25Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Second, I challenge you or anyone to provide a single instance of somebody, anybody, raping anyone while high on weed. I contend based on empirical experimental data that it is scientifically impossible, particularly if there’s a prospect of mac & cheese anywhere in the equation. \*Way \*too much effort. In refutation of this statement I cite the following [documentary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness) as evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12494 "2014-01-24T19:09:41Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Second, I challenge you or anyone to provide a single instance of somebody, anybody, raping anyone while high on weed. I contend based on empirical experimental data that it is scientifically impossible, particularly if there’s a prospect of mac & cheese anywhere in the equation. \*Way \*too much effort. While I am convinced this was just an untidy attempt at a joke, I will point out that there are multiple examples of statutory rape being facilitated by providing minors marijuana and smoking it together. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12495 "2014-01-24T19:34:39Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > While I am convinced this was just an untidy attempt at a joke, I will point out that there are multiple examples of statutory rape being facilitated by providing minors marijuana and smoking it together. Cite? No, wait, not “cite” . . . what’s the word I’m looking for . . . Narrative? ---
**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:** [January 24, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12496 "2014-01-24T20:31:56Z")
Thank you John Boner Bohener! > [@](#): > > House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that no new regulations are needed after a chemical spill in West Virginia last week left more than 300,000 people without safe tap water. He suggested the incident was not the result of less environmental and energy regulation but of the Obama administration’s failure to enforce existing rules. > > “The issue is this: We have enough regulations on the books. And what the administration ought to be doing is actually doing their jobs,” Boehner said at a press conference. “Why wasn’t this plant inspected since 1991?” Why? Why? Well, that sequestration and refusal to raise taxes to get inspectors and resources to them is doing the wonders you and your do nothing congress wanted: > [@](#): > > On the flip side, the spending deal offered only modest relief to cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency under sequestration. Republicans even bragged about successfully cutting the EPA’s funding by 20 percent since 2010 when summarizing the bill. > > The EPA announced plans last month to significantly reduce inspections over the next five years. The agency said the move was necessary for a more “effective allocation of resources” to focus on the biggest polluters. > > The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has also suffered under recent budget cuts. Due to low pay, the agency has struggled to hire and retain inspectors, resulting in so few workplace inspections that the average site will only face an inspection every 99 years. It has to be said, Republicans do not care if the people of West Virginia are guinea pigs for their social experimentation. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12497 "2014-01-24T20:56:50Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > It has to be said, Republicans do not care if the people of West Virginia are guinea pigs for their social experimentation. I think a better metaphor would be “gerbils.” ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12498 "2014-01-24T21:38:26Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Thank you John Boner Bohener! > > Why? Why? Well, that sequestration and refusal to raise taxes to get inspectors and resources to them is doing the wonders you and your do nothing congress wanted: > > It has to be said, Republicans do not care if the people of West Virginia are guinea pigs for their social experimentation. I honestly don’t understand how anyone can identify or vote republican and not be outright ashamed at being a distention sack of shit. The republicans gut the EPA, and then whine that it’s the democrats fault the EPA isn’t doing enough? These assholes deserve to suck up the chemicals that their anti-regulation bullshit caused to spill into the environment. Maybe that way they’d actually be useful, rather than just causing harm. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12499 "2014-01-24T23:36:08Z")
Why don’t these de-regulation goons ever stop to consider that at some time in the past, there was an accident, maybe somebody got hurt or sick, and there was a public outcry for new laws to Make Sure This Never Happens Again, and somebody – _maybe even a Republican_ – fought to get these new laws passed? Is that so hard? ---
**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:** [January 25, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12500 "2014-01-25T00:28:15Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Why don’t these de-regulation goons ever stop to consider that at some time in the past, there was an accident, maybe somebody got hurt or sick, and there was a public outcry for new laws to Make Sure This Never Happens Again, and somebody – _maybe even a Republican_ – fought to get these new laws passed? > > Is that so hard? Yes, when your campaign money comes from businesses with the marching orders to be against regulations, it’s pretty hard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=624) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=626)