# 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:** 708
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14141 "2014-04-17T16:31:42Z")
But society’s to blame. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14142 "2014-04-17T16:33:25Z")
Right, we’ll arrest them instead. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14143 "2014-04-17T17:06:05Z")
The problem with the “withhold pay if you are in contempt of Congress” is that it would be trivially easy for a single house of Congress to use this as a weapon against any member of the Executive Branch at any time. The Democratic Senate doesn’t like the way Alberto Gonzalez looked at them? Contempt! Eliminate his pay! The Republican House thinks Chuck Hagel is a traitor to Republicans for joining a Democratic Administration? Contempt! Cut his pay! The two houses of Congress are supposed to be a check on one another, which is the whole reason that impeachment is split between the Houses. It would be somewhat ironic if cabinet members were subject to penalties for being held in contempt (but not charged in court for the same), but not subject to penalties for the more serious issue of being impeached (but not yet convicted by the Senate). ---
**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:** [April 17, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14144 "2014-04-17T17:40:37Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > The problem with the … The problem with most contemporary Republican approaches is that the ones that are not based on _Jesus_ are based on the two-by-four+mule concept, that if you hit it hard enough, it will move (and, in their minds, not in the direction that involves stomping on you). Ultimately, it is quite insulting, they are saying that since they are stupid and unimaginitive, everyone else must be like them as well. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14145 "2014-04-18T20:39:44Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > [Phyllis Schafly wants the wage gap between men and women to be larger so they’ll have a better chance of catching a husband.](http://www.christianpost.com/news/facts-and-fallacies-about-paycheck-fairness-117959/) [12-year-old Madison Kimrey responds with an open letter to Phyllis Schlafly.](http://samuel-warde.com/2014/04/open-letter-phyllis-schlafly-12-year-old-madison-kimrey-guest-post/) ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14146 "2014-04-18T21:44:15Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [12-year-old Madison Kimrey responds with an open letter to Phyllis Schlafly.](http://samuel-warde.com/2014/04/open-letter-phyllis-schlafly-12-year-old-madison-kimrey-guest-post/) Some one needs to have a talk with little Madison. Schlafly has “absolutely no idea what women of my generation are all about”, either. This is not a generational thing, little sister. (Some one also has to tell her most Victoria Secret goods are horribly overpriced for the quality, too, but that’s for another thread.) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14147 "2014-04-18T21:51:30Z")
Wow. Madison, you ROCK! 🆒😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14148 "2014-04-18T21:51:44Z")
In a related vein, Chelsea Clinton is expecting. So this guy gives an interview and says how its on orders from Bill and Hillary as a campaign ploy. I swear, I am not making this up! Details here, over at Crooks and Liars, which you ought to check out ever once in a while anyway… > **[And So It Begins: 'Chelsea's Pregnancy Was A Forced Hillary Campaign Ploy'](https://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/and-so-it-begins-chelseas-pregnancy)** > > The Chelsea Truthers are already surfacing and it's not pretty. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14149 "2014-04-18T21:53:08Z")
Can’t… get… over… cloche hat ! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14150 "2014-04-18T22:02:11Z")
I’m so thrilled a Clinton chick is having a baby while 99% of war casualties and amputations are men. Women will save us, as long as 99% of deaths and amputations are men. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14151 "2014-04-18T22:03:01Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Wow. > > Madison, you ROCK! 🆒😃 Really, I’m flashing on _Kick-Ass_ myself! [Kick-Ass’s friends are watching a monitor – they see Hit Girl mowing down the Mob guys] :eek: “I’m in love!” “Dude, that girl’s like 10 years old!” “I’ll wait for her!” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14152 "2014-04-18T22:04:25Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I’m so thrilled a Clinton chick is having a baby while 99% of war casualties and amputations are men. Women will save us, as long as 99% of deaths and amputations are men. [shrug] They have the uterus, sperm can be banked, we’re expendable. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14153 "2014-04-18T22:06:00Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [shrug] They have the uterus, sperm can be banked, we’re expendable. Welcome to the 21st century. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14154 "2014-04-18T22:06:43Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > In a related vein, Chelsea Clinton is expecting. So this guy gives an interview and says how its on orders from Bill and Hillary as a campaign ploy. I swear, I am not making this up! > > Details here, over at Crooks and Liars, which you ought to check out ever once in a while anyway… > > [And So It Begins: 'Chelsea's Pregnancy Was A Forced Hillary Campaign Ploy' | Crooks and Liars](http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/and-so-it-begins-chelseas-pregnancy) Oh, yes, and they used Vince Foster’s banked sperm! (It’s a long story . . .) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14155 "2014-04-18T22:41:11Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > In a related vein, Chelsea Clinton is expecting. So this guy gives an interview and says how its on orders from Bill and Hillary as a campaign ploy. I swear, I am not making this up! Wouldn’t the best time to help Hillary’s campaign be when Hillary is campaigning? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14156 "2014-04-18T22:51:12Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Can’t… get… over… cloche hat ! Madison is also an actress and an aspiring writer. So she’s already promoting herself. Hmmm. But WHAT a cutie! ---
**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:** [April 18, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14157 "2014-04-18T23:00:55Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Wouldn’t the best time to help Hillary’s campaign be when Hillary is campaigning? As I explained over at Crooks & Liars: [QUOTE=me] Look it’s simple. You have all underestimated Republican stupidity. Now they have said that women’s bodies can shut down a pregnancy if they are raped and don’t want to have the rapist’s baby. They have said that vaginas can be milked. So they don’t know even basic stuff about reproduction … including, probably, how long it takes a baby to come to term. They probably think it takes 18 months, so Hillary will have the baby around August-ish of 2015., and that’s why they think it’s a plot by Hillary. To understand Republicans, you must throw away all your preconceived notions about stupidity! [/QUOTE] ---
**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:** [April 19, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14158 "2014-04-19T03:08:51Z")
Yeah. Normal American mothers would never let them kiss their babies, so she’s making sure there will be ONE for her to kiss. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14159 "2014-04-20T20:33:56Z")
[Wisconsin Republicans will vote on party resolution ‘upholding’ Wisconsin’s right to secede](http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/14/1292012/-Wisconsin-Republicans-will-vote-on-party-resolution-upholding-Wisconsin-s-right-to-secede?detail=facebook). ---
**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:** [April 21, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14160 "2014-04-21T14:14:55Z")
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