# 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:** 627
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12521 "2014-01-26T06:46:32Z")
> [@j666](#): > > What “laws that other organizations comply with on a daily basis” are being circumvented? Is there a burial practice required in Islam that is against some law? (I’m asking honestly, that is such a strange comment.) Well, of course, when Musselmen dispose of their dead, they must dance howling around their beastly idol Termagant while rending the corpse with their teeth and gulping the flesh. ---
**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 26, 2014, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12522 "2014-01-26T06:52:38Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > [Oklahoma considering banning all marriage](http://www.news9.com/story/24543033/lawmakers-consider-preventing-all-marriage-in-oklahoma), just so that gays can’t get married. I hope they actually go through with it just to watch the chaos. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12523 "2014-01-26T07:49:34Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I think I can speak for the Sedimentary-American community when I say that we are ready to rock. I’m surprised they didn’t wait for the dust to settle before issuing such a concrete statement. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12524 "2014-01-26T08:24:58Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > [Oklahoma considering banning all marriage](http://www.news9.com/story/24543033/lawmakers-consider-preventing-all-marriage-in-oklahoma), just so that gays can’t get married. There’s logical precedent: Old segregationist South shutting down public schools just so that “THOSE FOLK” couldn’t get in. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2014, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12525 "2014-01-26T08:25:53Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Todd Kincannon works to win the Sociopath of the Year award…: [http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186473.0](http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186473.0) “… intellectual honesty is for losers.” The GOP platform is going to be short and sweet in the next election cycle. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12526 "2014-01-26T15:45:21Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Enough of this schist Now be gneiss! (Great username/post agreement, btw!) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12527 "2014-01-26T16:25:01Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Now be gneiss! > > (Great username/post agreement, btw!) Granite, it isn’t easy atoll, you brecchia! ---
**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:** [January 26, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12528 "2014-01-26T16:33:06Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Todd Kincannon works to win the Sociopath of the Year award…: [http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186473.0](http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186473.0) Wow. I think that crosses the line into full-blown psychopath. ETA: And sticklers who say that sociopath and psychopath are no longer accepted diagnoses by the psychiatric community can fuck off. They are now part of the Common Vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12529 "2014-01-26T18:32:31Z")
[ > [@](#): > > “Throughout the government shutdown, I opposed a government shutdown. I said we shouldn’t shut down the government,” [_ **Ted Cruz** _] said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “I think it was a mistake that President Obama and the Democrats shut the government down this fall.” ]([Cruz Pins Shutdown On Democrats, Opposes Clean Debt Limit Increase - TPM – Talking Points Memo](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cruz-shutdown-no-clean-debt-limit-increase)) Up is down. Black is white. In is the new out. ---
**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 26, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12530 "2014-01-26T20:09:49Z")
Where’s \*\*Shodan \*\*? This might be one of the few times his favouritest Eastasia shtick could be properly applied. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12531 "2014-01-26T20:24:53Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Todd Kincannon works to win the Sociopath of the Year award…: [http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186473.0](http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186473.0) More [here](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/25/tea-party-republican-spews-vile-sexist-twitter-attacks-at-wendy-davis/). > [@](#): > > Kincannon has enlarged upon early Republican attacks on Davis, insinuating that because she supports a woman’s right to choose, she must be a promiscuous, man-eating tramp. Calling her a “coke whore” and insinuating that she cheated on her then-husband, Kincannon wrote, at one point, “I don’t care if folks attack Wendy Davis unfairly. I just want her attacked.” > > He has tweeted, variously: > > \*- I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was as much of a whore as Wendy Davis. And I’ve met some epic whores in my travels. > > - I suspect Texas voters care that Wendy Davis was **potentially** \* going to Harvard coke parties instead of caring for her children. > > - Make Wendy Davis worry that somebody will dig up a Harvard classmate that she did coke with. Torture her until she begs for it to stop. > > - Wendy Davis has an abortion fetish and did in fact abandon her children. > > - Make Wendy Davis wish she’d never been born. #InsertAbortionJokeHere\* - Emphasis added. “Potentially”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12532 "2014-01-26T20:42:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, of course, when Musselmen dispose of their dead, they must dance howling around their beastly idol Termagant while rending the corpse with their teeth and gulping the flesh. I just wondered if maybe embalming was prohibited or something. ---
**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 26, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12533 "2014-01-26T20:57:05Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > - Emphasis added. “Potentially”? 😕 Yes. In the same way that Todd Kincannon \*potentially \*felches goats every night while doing PCP paid for with money earned through a thriving child-murder-for-hire business. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12534 "2014-01-26T21:09:11Z")
Wendy must have rebuffed ole Todd at a party once or something. He’s a nasty piece of work. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12535 "2014-01-27T00:13:22Z")
According to Mitch McConnell, [it would be “irresponsible” to not hold the debt ceiling for ransom again;](http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/26/3205831/mitch-mcconnell-irresponsible-try-hold-debt-ceiling-hostage/) [QUOTE=Mitch McConnell] What I’m saying is we ought to attach something significant for the country to [President Obama’s] request to increase the debt ceiling. That’s been the pattern for 50 years, going back to the Eisenhower administration. I think it’s the responsible thing to do for the country. […] We’re never going to default — the Speaker and I have made that clear. We’ve never done that. But, it’s irresponsible not to use the discussion — the request of the President to raise the debt ceiling — to try to accomplish something for the country. [/QUOTE] It’s like they don’t even _want_ to win reelection anymore. ---
**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 27, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12536 "2014-01-27T00:32:52Z")
> [@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 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Party of Personal Responsibility. > [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Todd Kincannon works to win the Sociopath of the Year award…: [http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186473.0](http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186473.0) That link not only shows just how vile Kincannon is but also reminds me how glad I am this board doesn’t allow picture files in posts. Jesus, people, if your post consists of three words followed by 17 inches of gifs in your signature to scroll past, you’re an asshole. ---
**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 27, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12537 "2014-01-27T03:42:11Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > but also reminds me how glad I am this board doesn’t allow picture files in posts. Jesus, people, if your post consists of three words followed by 17 inches of gifs in your signature to scroll past, you’re an asshole. Hell yes. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12538 "2014-01-27T14:28:18Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > [Oklahoma considering banning all marriage](http://www.news9.com/story/24543033/lawmakers-consider-preventing-all-marriage-in-oklahoma), just so that gays can’t get married. That would be perfect. Man I hope they do it. ---
**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 27, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12539 "2014-01-27T14:42:02Z")
Right this minute, the pop-up headline on that web site says “OK minister jailed in Philippines on child molestation charges.” Priorities, people! ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12540 "2014-01-27T14:56:36Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > [Oklahoma considering banning all marriage](http://www.news9.com/story/24543033/lawmakers-consider-preventing-all-marriage-in-oklahoma), just so that gays can’t get married. You would think that shitholes like Oklahoma would actually want to attract more people to live in their state. But instead they actively try to push people out until nobody is left. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=626) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=628)