# 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:** 75
**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 24, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1481 "2010-04-24T17:06:27Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > [The GOP apparently wants women (particularly Democratic women) to go back in the kitchen](http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Ohio-GOP-Put-Betty-Sutton-Back-in-the-Kitchen-1115). Aw shucks, they were just joshin’. Sheesh, liberals are sooooo sensitive! And anyway, why _wouldn’t_ Sutton want to get back into the kitchen? Then she wouldn’t have to worry her pretty little head about anything, and could leave all that confusing lawmakin’ stuff to big strong strapping men (and SMART women like [Sue Lowden](http://www.lowdenplan.com/)). [QUOTE=Frostillicus] The ghost of John Calhoun is alive and well in the Minnesota state legislature, thanks to this [new proposed law](http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4/23/860016/-Minnesota-GOPers-take-sovereignty-to-a-new-extreme) that would allow Minnesota to nullify any federal law by a 2/3rds vote. So what that it is blatantly unconstitutional? – sometimes we have to violate the constitution to show how much we love it. [/QUOTE] Oh come on, it’s all a Democrat plan to make the Republicans look bad, just like every single other thing in this thread. If Democrats would quit makin’ all this stuff up or makin’ a big deal about it, the Republicans would look completely and absolutely reasonable. [/extreme sarcasm, in case any newbies lurk] Wow, being sarcastic about such brain-damage is hard. My mind is too boggled to do it properly. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1482 "2010-04-24T17:21:35Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > The ghost of John Calhoun is alive and well in the Minnesota state legislature, thanks to this new proposed law that would allow Minnesota to nullify any federal law by a 2/3rds vote. So what that it is blatantly unconstitutional? – sometimes we have to violate the constitution to show how much we love it. > > [Minnesota GOPers take "sovereignty" to a new extreme](http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4/23/860016/-Minnesota-GOPers-take-sovereignty-to-a-new-extreme) According to the link, it will take a 2/3rds majority to _approve_ any Federal laws. Apparently any Federal laws will be automatically nullified unless they get a supermajority of the Minnesota legislature to approve them. ---
**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 24, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1483 "2010-04-24T20:00:01Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > According to the link, it will take a 2/3rds majority to _approve_ any Federal laws. Apparently any Federal laws will be automatically nullified unless they get a supermajority of the Minnesota legislature to approve them. Does that indicate that Minnesota wants to secede from the Union? Canada could take them, except that Canada has UHC and gay marriage. Plus, while getting rid of Bachman is a bonus, we don’t want to lose Franken. Why do right-wingers hate the Constitution? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1484 "2010-04-24T22:13:32Z")
They don’t hate the Constitution, they just hate all those pesky rules _in_ it. But let’s remember we’re only talking about Republicans in the state legislature. If they want to secede, we should give them 40 acres and a mule and tell them to stay out of America. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1485 "2010-04-24T23:11:05Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > But let’s remember we’re only talking about Republicans in the state legislature. If they want to secede, we should give them 40 acres and a mule and tell them to stay out of America. Why do you hate mules? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1486 "2010-04-25T02:42:06Z")
They’re so damn stubborn, though to their credit not as stubborn as Republicans. On edit: forgot to say, “Good one!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1487 "2010-04-25T02:59:49Z")
Because they are the product of equine miscegenation! The unnatural offspring of a perverted donkey and a slutty horse. Humans are depraved too, no doubt, but at least we stay within our own species! Mostly! ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1488 "2010-04-25T03:25:30Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > According to the link, it will take a 2/3rds majority to _approve_ any Federal laws. Apparently any Federal laws will be automatically nullified unless they get a supermajority of the Minnesota legislature to approve them. Which makes the idea extra special stupid. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1489 "2010-04-25T04:15:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Because they are the product of equine miscegenation! The unnatural offspring of a perverted donkey and a slutty horse. Humans are depraved too, no doubt, but at least we stay within our own species! Mostly! I blame it on gay marriage. ---
**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 25, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1490 "2010-04-25T04:40:01Z")
You mean there are people who _don’t_? ---
**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 25, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1491 "2010-04-25T05:12:00Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > But let’s remember we’re only talking about Republicans in the state legislature. If they want to secede, we should give them 40 acres and a mule and tell them to stay out of America. 40 acres _where_? Do we get to keep the land and throw out all the stupid right-wingers? It’s awfully pretty up there even though they have skeeters the size of cats. Who’d take 'em? Somalia? That seems easier than building a fence along 3 sides (Canada can take care of their side) so we don’t get any pesky illegal aliens daring to show their faces. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1492 "2010-04-25T07:03:22Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > 40 acres _where_? … Kenya? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1493 "2010-04-25T07:10:24Z")
Just pick a place at random, say…Wisconsin! Republicans are natural Packers fans, seems to me. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1494 "2010-04-25T07:17:04Z")
I say Alaska. There’s a lot if open tundra. If they’re lucky they can dig and find some oil – maybe enough to heat their igloo through the winter. The mule’s gonna make pretty poor eatin’ after it freezes dead. ---
**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 25, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1495 "2010-04-25T08:55:15Z")
Let’s just give 'em to Texas since Texas wants to secede too. ---
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1496 "2010-04-25T12:58:25Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Let’s just give 'em to Texas since Texas wants to secede too. Let’s _not_ just give 'em to Texas - we’ve already got more crazy down here than we know what to do with. Choose someplace sane, like… California! ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1497 "2010-04-25T13:33:56Z")
I think Alaska is the obvious choice. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1498 "2010-04-25T14:17:47Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I say Alaska. There’s a lot if open tundra. If they’re lucky they can dig and find some oil – maybe enough to heat their igloo through the winter. > > The mule’s gonna make pretty poor eatin’ after it freezes dead. > [@C3](#): > > I think Alaska is the obvious choice. [It’s been done](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer,_Alaska#History). (But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth another try. In any case, [The Daily Caller](http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/19/americas-top-20-conservative-friendly-counties/) rates the Mat-Su Borough number 20 on its list of conservative-friendly counties, so they’d fit right in [and not skew the existing political climate significantly].) ---
**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:** [April 25, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1499 "2010-04-25T15:22:50Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Why do you hate mules? Hate mules? Not at all – the reason to give each of them the right to take a mule along is that it would be cruel to separate [couples](http://godsownparty.com/blog/2010/03/horsley-is-as-stubborn-as-a-mule/)… ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1500 "2010-04-25T16:34:57Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Does that indicate that Minnesota wants to secede from the Union? Canada could take them, except that Canada has UHC and gay marriage. Plus, while getting rid of Bachman is a bonus, we don’t want to lose Franken. > > Why do right-wingers hate the Constitution? Because of the Bill of Rights. Duh. Did you know there’s all sorts of stuff in there that doesn’t apply to firearms? It’s true! Only 10% of it. What kind of commie would write something that’s 90% irrelevant to what matters? -Jo [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=74) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=76)