# 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:** 628
**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, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12541 "2014-01-27T14:58:48Z")
> [@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, Republicans are really, really afraid of Wendy Davis. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Oldeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ea666f/32.png) [@Oldeb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oldeb)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12542 "2014-01-27T16:28:35Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > 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/) > > It’s like they don’t even _want_ to win reelection anymore. Apart from another shutdown being terrible for Republicans, I don’t even get how McConnell thinks this is supposed to work. He says that he and Boehner won’t let the government default. But without the threat of default there’s no hostage. This isn’t even holding the gun to your own head and threatening to shoot if your demands aren’t met, it’s not even holding a gun in the first place. Isn’t this flat out admitting he’s going to waste billions of dollars for nothing? ---
**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:** [January 27, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12543 "2014-01-27T16:30:35Z")
If the last shutdown is any indicator, he a Boehner will threaten a standoff just long enough to allow the House Loonies to actually create one. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12544 "2014-01-27T16:44:23Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > Wow, Republicans are really, really afraid of Wendy Davis. 😕 Common wisdom is that as minority percentages increase, and minorities continue to be attracted more to the wisdom of the D party rather than the bigotry of the R’s…that the country will be more and more D as time goes by. (When the D’s can foresee election majorities every time, they will also have schisms, but that is another thing for another time) anyway, this tipping away from R’s to D’s has to be one where one state after another becomes D country. I think Texas is way up on that list. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12545 "2014-01-27T16:46:22Z")
Republicans have almost a two to one edge in representation in the Texas legislature, so I’m pretty sure that’s not it. ---
**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 27, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12546 "2014-01-27T16:50:34Z")
> [@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. Of course if they went through with this they would immediately turn around and use it as evidence that gay marriage destroys traditional marriage. ---
**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, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12547 "2014-01-27T16:50:39Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Republicans have almost a two to one edge in representation in the Texas legislature, so I’m pretty sure that’s not it. Is that not in part due to heavy gerrymandering? ISTR Texas has some interesting districts. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12548 "2014-01-27T17:05:55Z")
I’m sure it is, but Texas went for Romney 4.5 million to 3.3 in 2012 so the GOP would have a huge edge even with fairly drawn districts. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12549 "2014-01-27T17:17:10Z")
> [@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. “We don’t smoke marriage-wana in Muskogee…” ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12550 "2014-01-27T19:37:22Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > GOP Rep. Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee [is upset](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/gop-congressman-blasts-proposal-muslim-cemetery) that the local Muslims have gotten approval for a Muslim cemetery in Murfreesboro. Wait, is this the same Dr. Scott DesJarlais, pro-life Republican, who taped _himself_ encouraging one of his patients whom he had an affair with and impregnated to get an abortion? That Scott DesJarlais? I mean, I know it is. But I can’t let any mention of him go by without reminding potential GOP voters in Rutherford County that HE COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH A PATIENT AND TOLD HER TO GET AN ABORTION. ---
**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 27, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12551 "2014-01-27T20:03:35Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Wait, is this the same Dr. Scott DesJarlais, pro-life Republican, who taped _himself_ encouraging one of his patients whom he had an affair with and impregnated to get an abortion? That Scott DesJarlais? > > I mean, I know it is. But I can’t let any mention of him go by without reminding potential GOP voters in Rutherford County that HE COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH A PATIENT AND TOLD HER TO GET AN ABORTION. That’s DIFFERENT! Desjarlais is a good, god-fearing man who made a mistake! Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven! Not like those godless liberal baby-killers. /snark, if it wasn’t obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12552 "2014-01-27T22:28:20Z")
Let’s play “spot the mistake of the God-fearing Christian” - cheat on your wife - have sex with your patient(s) - encourage your patient-lover to have an abortion - complain on social that religious freedom laws protect religions other than yours What gets me is that just last week, the director of our county schools was forced to resign. Why? Did he sleep with a student? Organize massive fraud of test results? Slap a teacher? No, the community was up in arms because after canceling school on a recent snow day, while driving the county-own vehicle provided for his personal use, he stopped at a restaurant for lunch and had… [a beer!](http://www.wilsonpost.com/post-opinion----director-must-resign-cms-82904) DUN DUN DUN. /fanning myself. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12553 "2014-01-27T22:45:36Z")
I think this qualifies as stupid, in the sense that it is a childish over-reaction of “_I will burn my toys rather than let you play with them!_” [Oklahoma Republicans want to ‘deregulate’ marriage so that the government will not be involved in it](http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/oklahoma-divorce-marriage-government-video/#axzz2rZDcBgmv). ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12554 "2014-01-27T23:08:23Z")
> [@For You](#): > > I think this qualifies as stupid, in the sense that it is a childish over-reaction of “_I will burn my toys rather than let you play with them!_” [Oklahoma Republicans want to ‘deregulate’ marriage so that the government will not be involved in it](http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/oklahoma-divorce-marriage-government-video/#axzz2rZDcBgmv). Thus proving that republicans have no respect for the sanctity of marriage, and allowing republicans anything to do with marriage will destroy the marriage of others. Obviously, anyone against SSM should be against allowing republicans to marry or legislate anything to do with marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12555 "2014-01-27T23:12:56Z")
> [@For You](#): > > I think this qualifies as stupid, in the sense that it is a childish over-reaction of “_I will burn my toys rather than let you play with them!_” [Oklahoma Republicans want to ‘deregulate’ marriage so that the government will not be involved in it](http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/oklahoma-divorce-marriage-government-video/#axzz2rZDcBgmv). I can get behind this one, but not for the reasons they have. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12556 "2014-01-27T23:45:41Z")
The morons who push the decoupling of marriage from the government forget one thing. \*Some religions allow gay marriage. \* How they gonna deal with some liberal preacher marrying people? Hopefully by mass suicide. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12557 "2014-01-28T01:07:38Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I can get behind this one, but not for the reasons they have. I am thinking we should have a GD thread on the subject. In the culture we have, marriage is an important thing, but the culture we have is also kind of formed around that idea. I have heard, rightly or wrongly, that the nuclear family concept was an invention of Roman origins devised to minimize intra-empire tribalism that could pose a threat to the nation – kind of a divide-and-subdue strategy. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12558 "2014-01-28T03:03:05Z")
> [@For You](#): > > I have heard, rightly or wrongly, that the nuclear family concept was an invention of Roman origins devised to minimize intra-empire tribalism that could pose a threat to the nation – kind of a divide-and-subdue strategy. Even if that is true, I doubt it could have anything to do with the **modern** nuclear family concept. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12559 "2014-01-28T03:33:13Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > How they gonna deal with some liberal preacher marrying people? Duh. They’ll throw bricks through his window, burn down his church, assault his parishioners, and then lynch a gay dude. No school like the old school. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12560 "2014-01-28T03:33:21Z")
The Romans had enough civil wars that I don’t think it worked if true. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=627) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=629)