# 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:** 664
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13261 "2014-03-06T14:23:16Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Gandhi fucking Malmsteen, that’s who. Oh, this guy? > **[Gandhi Malmsteen Profiles](https://www.facebook.com/public/Gandhi-Malmsteen)** > > View the profiles of people named Gandhi Malmsteen. Join Facebook to connect with Gandhi Malmsteen and others you may know. Facebook gives people the... ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13262 "2014-03-06T14:38:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Meanwhile, at the House Oversight Committee investigation of the IRS thing, Darryl Issa cuts Elijah Cummings’ mic.](http://www.salon.com/2014/03/05/darrell_issas_newest_irs_scandal_revelation_darrell_issa_is_bad_at_investigating_scandals/) > [@yanceylebeef](#): > > It would appear that the new talking points from the Oil and Gas Industry are out…Both [John Boehner](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/boehner-obama-putin-natural-gas) and [Paul Ryan](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/05/paul-ryan-stuns-cnn-host-keystone-pipeline-will-solve-russias-ukraine-invasion/), in totally unrelated interviews, have said that Oil and Gas exports and starting work on the Keystone Pipeline are the key to ending the crisis in The Ukraine. Maybe we should sent Issa to the Ukraine. You know, to get to the bottom of things. Preferably a lake. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13263 "2014-03-06T14:44:39Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Maybe we should sent Issa to the Ukraine. You know, to get to the bottom of things. Preferably a lake. So we should take Issa to the quarry and throw… uhhh… ermmmm… Sorry. [Emily Litella voice] _Never mind_ [/ E L voice] ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13264 "2014-03-06T15:07:41Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Why don’t Americans wake up and realize that ACORN is behind the crisis in Ukraine? Because ACORN is _just that good!_ :eek: Or it could be that Fox News is getting too distracted by [del]Obamacare[/del]…[del]the IRS[/del]…[del]Bengahzi[/del]…the Ukraine to keep us informed… ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13265 "2014-03-06T15:20:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman Steve King doesn’t believe there are really any gays - [Steve King: The Problem Is Homosexuality Is 'Self-Professed,' Can't Be 'Independently Verified' | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/steve-king-arizona-anti-gay-bill_n_4892343.html) Dear Congresscritter King: I hate to break this to you, but there is an obvious alternative hypothesis to explain why your toe-tappin’ in the men’s room gets shot down like the Libyan Air Force… ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13266 "2014-03-06T15:23:25Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I’ll go with Kahless, Genghis Khan, Colonel Green and Zora. Provider One bids three hundred quatloos. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13267 "2014-03-06T15:31:34Z")
From the Party’s [TV channel](http://www.examiner.com/article/fox-news-host-degrades-the-poor-says-foodstamps-are-a-good-way-to-lose-weight): > [@](#): > > Host Stuart Varney asked Andrea Tantaros whether she would be able to live on just $133 a month. She obliviously responded: > > “I should try it because do you know how fabulous I’d look? I mean, the camera adds ten pounds. It really does. I would be looking great.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13268 "2014-03-06T15:39:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman Steve King doesn’t believe there are really any gays - [Steve King: The Problem Is Homosexuality Is 'Self-Professed,' Can't Be 'Independently Verified' | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/steve-king-arizona-anti-gay-bill_n_4892343.html) By the same logic, I would like King to prove he is a Christian. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13269 "2014-03-06T15:54:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Stephen Colbert wants gays to send Congressman King videos of them having gay sex to prove to him that there really are gay people. Yeah, well, how do we know they’re not just going through the motions? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13270 "2014-03-06T16:23:11Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Don’t need to watch the movies, just glance at a handful of titles. Slave this, slave that, slave whoseewhatsit. By Rush’s metric they should be swimming in gold statues. NITPICK: Despite what you may have seen in documentaries about Scrooge McDuck, gold does not lend itself to use as a medium for swimming in. The individual pieces, being in solid form, are far too dense to permit the average person to attain directed motion. If the gold is transformed into a liquid state, immersion for more than a second or two will probably result in death. Also, gold in a liquid state would not be properly referred to as “statues.” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13271 "2014-03-06T16:51:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > NITPICK: Despite what you may have seen in documentaries about Scrooge McDuck, gold does not lend itself to use as a medium for swimming in. The individual pieces, being in solid form, are far too dense to permit the average person to attain directed motion. > > If the gold is transformed into a liquid state, immersion for more than a second or two will probably result in death. > > Also, gold in a liquid state would not be properly referred to as “statues.” \*Someone \*didn’t see the latest Hobbit movie. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13272 "2014-03-06T17:03:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman Steve King doesn’t believe there are really any gays - [Steve King: The Problem Is Homosexuality Is 'Self-Professed,' Can't Be 'Independently Verified' | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/steve-king-arizona-anti-gay-bill_n_4892343.html) Oh my goodness, so much stupid there. Two points immediately jump out: > [@](#): > > “Although it’s clear in the civil rights section of the code that you can’t discriminate against people based upon – and I’m not sure I have the list right – race, **creed, religion** , color of skin," King said, "there’s nothing mentioned in there on self-professed behavior, and that’s what they’re trying to protect: special rights for self-professed behavior.” Uh, Steve…religion is self-professed. Or…how do I know you’re really Jewish? Just because you say you are? > [@](#): > > The one thing that I reference when I say ‘self-professed’ is how do you know who to discriminate against. Yeah, what’s a bigot to do? Here’s a thought…how about not discriminating against _anybody_? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13273 "2014-03-06T18:27:55Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > \*Someone \*didn’t see the latest Hobbit movie. Okay, okay, _unless_ you’ve got Benedict Cumberbatch providing your voice and motion capture sensors. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13274 "2014-03-06T18:30:30Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > By the same logic, I would like King to prove he is a Christian. Colbert might not pick this ninny for his flip a district campaign for the simple reason that it is just too easy to make fun of Steve King. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13275 "2014-03-06T18:56:05Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > \*Someone \*didn’t see the latest Hobbit movie. But he clearly did see that Game of Thrones episode where the Dragon Queen’s brother got his richly deserved golden crown. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13276 "2014-03-06T19:28:51Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Colbert might not pick this ninny for his flip a district campaign for the simple reason that it is just too easy to make fun of Steve King. He also might not because Colbert is not Bill Maher, the guy actually doing the “flip a district” thing… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13277 "2014-03-06T19:39:32Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > He also might not because Colbert is not Bill Maher, the guy actually doing the “flip a district” thing… 😉 Right, Colbert’s thing is to **know** a district. (In the Biblical sense, I think he means.) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13278 "2014-03-06T20:48:48Z")
> [@CannyDan](#): > > So we should take Issa to the quarry and throw… > > uhhh… > > ermmmm… > > Sorry. [Emily Litella voice] _Never mind_ [/ E L voice] OMG! Issa is really Jar Jar Binks! Have you ever seen them together? I think not. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13279 "2014-03-06T21:24:11Z")
> **[Paul Ryan: Free School Lunch Means Poor Parents Don’t Care About Kids](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul_ryan_free_lunch_means_parents_dont_care_for_kids)** > > Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Thursday that liberals don't understand disadvantaged students would rather have parents who care for them than a free lunch at school. Speaking at the Conservative… Paul Ryan : The left doesn’t understand that what happens when you give a free lunch to a kid is that he thinks that his parents don’t care for him. So … What, exactly are you saying, Paul? That kids will be better off without lunch because then they’ll think that someone cares? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13280 "2014-03-06T21:47:51Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Meanwhile, at the House Oversight Committee investigation of the IRS thing, Darryl Issa cuts Elijah Cummings’ mic.](http://www.salon.com/2014/03/05/darrell_issas_newest_irs_scandal_revelation_darrell_issa_is_bad_at_investigating_scandals/) [And now it looks like the House Dems have decided to make something of that.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/democrats-target-issa) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=663) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=665)