# 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:** 71
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1401 "2010-04-17T06:46:47Z")
Gonna be tough. First off, you got your Clintonista, centrist, business friendly Dems who are beholden to Big Money. Not as beholden as a Pubbie, kinda like an indentured servant compared to a slave, but still. Remember, the Supremes clanged the dinner bell for corporations to pursue their civic virtue by generous contributions! Nice little incumbency you’ve got here, shame if anything were to happen to it. And they wouldn’t even have to show their colors, they can cut a deal to simply not support it as strongly as they might. Then you’ve got the awesome persuasive power of money. As Mark Shields said tonight, every lobbyist not currently under indictment, or in prison or de-tox is being hired. Mighty bucks were spent trying to stymie HCR, but you ain’t seen nothing yet! We’re talking great hulking wads of raw cash, Godzillabucks. They’ll take hostages! Impossible to paint the Pubbies as the protector of the proletariat against the running dog jackals of Wall Street? Maybe. But they’re sure as shit gonna try! ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1402 "2010-04-18T17:43:54Z")
This is what can happen to your brain when syphillis remains untreated for too long… [http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/17/limbaugh-volcano/](http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/17/limbaugh-volcano/) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1403 "2010-04-18T19:09:41Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > This is what can happen to your brain when syphillis remains untreated for too long… > > [http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/17/limbaugh-volcano/](http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/17/limbaugh-volcano/) Let’s really fuck the Europeans and make it single payer! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1404 "2010-04-18T19:21:50Z")
So God responds to legislation He doesn’t like by… grounding airplanes? How disappointed Limbaugh must be that the recent catastrophic earthquakes causing massive fatalities both happened **before** the HCR bill passed. Wonder how long he sat around crossing his fingers for another devastating earthquake after March 22 before deciding to go with the Iceland volcano as his candidate for God’s expression of anti-HCR wrath. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1405 "2010-04-18T19:24:09Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Let’s really fuck the Europeans and make it single payer! I just find it bizarre that people believe that God is omnipotent, yet also believe that He seems limited to sending painfully obscure signals such as striking a month late and on the wrong side of the Atlantic. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1406 "2010-04-18T19:26:26Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > So God responds to legislation He doesn’t like by… grounding airplanes? > > How disappointed Limbaugh must be that the recent catastrophic earthquakes causing massive fatalities both happened **before** the HCR bill passed. Wonder how long he sat around crossing his fingers for another devastating earthquake after March 22 before deciding to go with the Iceland volcano as his candidate for God’s expression of anti-HCR wrath. Well, there was an earthquake in China. That really showed us. ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1407 "2010-04-18T19:49:48Z")
Also I was clean out of coffee this morning. I could have sworn I bought more, but apparently not. To me it’s very clear that God is punishing me to show his displeasure with the healthcare bill. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1408 "2010-04-18T19:53:08Z")
> [@Gustav](#): > > Also I was clean out of coffee this morning. I could have sworn I bought more, but apparently not. To me it’s very clear that God is punishing me to show his displeasure with the healthcare bill. YMMV. I nicked my leg while shaving and the blood spelled out “Obama is a Kenyan.” ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1409 "2010-04-18T21:06:43Z")
I love this thread! ---
**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:** [April 18, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1410 "2010-04-18T21:07:47Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > How disappointed Limbaugh must be that the recent catastrophic earthquakes causing massive fatalities both happened **before** the HCR bill passed. Those were for Sugar getting voted off on _Survivor_. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1411 "2010-04-18T22:26:04Z")
OK, so the Repubs have got _one_ idea: > [@](#): > > “I think there is a pretty good … reason to believe that there is bipartisan opposition to this bill. We ought to go back to the drawing board and fix it,” McConnell said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” [Republican Senators Continue to Stonewall for Wallstreet Backers](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/18/obama-launch-public-campaign-wall-street-crackdown/) The start over bit wasn’t credible the first time Pubs tried it, but apparently it’s all they got because they’re trying it _again_. That’s mighty stupid of them, even if it does demonstrate that they are a party of _idea_. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1412 "2010-04-20T19:19:02Z")
They are the party of ‘No’. No cooperation, no contribution, no grey matter. Just no. Fear mongering, obstructionist, shit stirrers. Riling up the stupid, again and again. Willful misrepresentations and outright lies. There is, apparently, no level to which they will not stoop. They even invoke God, like he’d ally himself with people so racist and cold hearted. They are going to get somebody killed before they’re through. Mark my words. They are a giant shit stain on the greatest democracy on earth. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1413 "2010-04-20T19:53:48Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > They are going to get somebody killed before they’re through. Mark my words. I think a prominent Democrat, or liberal journalist will have to take one for the team to discredit these yokels. ---
**Author:** ![Batfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Batfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batfish)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1414 "2010-04-20T20:36:18Z")
[I’m so proud these geniuses are looking out for me!](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=17&articleid=20100420_17_0_OKLAHO993885) Warning! Link exposes you to Oklahoma Republicans! ---
**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:** [April 20, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1415 "2010-04-20T20:49:59Z")
I thought Glenn Coffee was a tailback for the 49ers. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1416 "2010-04-20T21:20:02Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > They are the party of ‘No’. No cooperation, no contribution, no grey matter. Just no. I take issue with this sir! They are most emphatically NOT the party of no. They are the party of [HELL NO!!!](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/26/palin-mccain-rally-in-ari_n_515026.html) > [@elbows](#): > > They are going to get somebody killed before they’re through. Mark my words. And you know whose fault that will be don’t you? Those damn liberals. Taunting those good people, those REAL Americans until they could not stand it anymore and snapped! Those damn liberals drove the Good Patriotic American to do this evil deed! ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1417 "2010-04-20T21:55:43Z")
Republicans are killing the parody market. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1418 "2010-04-20T22:51:18Z")
> [@Batfish](#): > > [I’m so proud these geniuses are looking out for me!](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=17&articleid=20100420_17_0_OKLAHO993885) > > Warning! Link exposes you to Oklahoma Republicans! They need to be saved. If they did not over rule the AG , the people would have been forced to have health care. that would be bad for them. I don’t know why, but it just would. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1419 "2010-04-21T01:25:46Z")
Stupid idea? Sponsoring a bill which resulted in this testamony before the House Judiciary Committee of the Georgia legislature: > [@](#): > > “Microchips are like little beepers. Just imagine, if you will, having a beeper in your rectum or genital area, the most sensitive area of your body. And your beeper numbers displayed on billboards throughout the city. All done without your permission,” [bill sponsored by Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville) to prohibit the involuntary implantation of microchips in human beings](http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/04/19/delusions-the-legislature-and-an-implanted-microchip/) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1420 "2010-04-21T01:27:57Z")
But maybe it tingles, Chip. Didja think of THAT? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=70) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=72)