# 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:** 752
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15021 "2014-06-03T19:14:14Z")
Bergdahzi! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15022 "2014-06-03T19:29:20Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > The levels of stupid on this issue are so high and general to Republicans it should deserve its own thread. > > ["Obamacare For The Air": How Reporting On EPA's Clean Power Plan Misses Republican Extremism | Media Matters for America](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/02/obamacare-for-the-air-how-reporting-on-epas-cle/199535) > So, besides McCain and Romney showing how the stupid has swallowed the whole party, the media is also the problem for not reporting that the current Republican party is not what many republican moderates and independents think it is. Don’t you think most of them have noticed by now? ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15023 "2014-06-03T19:48:15Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > The levels of stupid on this issue are so high and general to Republicans it should deserve its own thread. /snip/ Yup. Regarding cap-and-trade, there have been ads flying in Iowa with one GOP Senate candidate attacking another’s apparent past support for “Obama’s liberal cap-and-trade policies! Dunh-dunh-DUNH!!!” Every time I see that I shake my head and think, “Cap-and-trade was a Republican idea, stoopidheads, to stave off that evil liberal hardcore pollution regulation! And now you think you can get by with calling it a LIBERAL program? Thought up by Obama?” Well, apparently so. The GOP still hasn’t gone completely broke by banking on the short attention spans of voters. Just point and cry “Liberal! Socialist! Job killing!” enough, and people will forget who first came up with cap-and-trade, or the individual mandate, or any other notions they can’t stand, just because Obama. It’s a sad commentary of a party that would consider Reagan a RINO and Nixon an absolutely flaming liberal socialist (wage and price controls, anyone?). Hell, they froth at the mouth about Obama’s supposed socialism, but he is economically far to the right of Nixon, for one. I can call this the idea of the “day” because today is Iowa’s primary, and I won’t have to see those ads anymore. 🙂 Well, until late summer/fall, at least. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15024 "2014-06-03T19:51:07Z")
Even Obamacare was their own fucking idea too, but you’ll never hear one admit it in public. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15025 "2014-06-03T20:02:28Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Don’t you think most of them have noticed by now? Many have left the Republican party indeed, but IMHO there is still a lot of Republicans that are not aware of how retrograde the current crop of Republicans are, I think that a lot just think that it is still “the grand old party” so it is still ok to vote for the party the family has been voting for all these years. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15026 "2014-06-03T20:08:35Z")
I’m trying to figure out who’s more pitiful – a person who continues to be a member of the Catholic Church, or someone who stays Republican. I know there are non-pricks in each, but I just can’t understand why they don’t take a hike given what their respective hierarchies have come to represent. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15027 "2014-06-03T20:44:45Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > So, besides McCain and Romney showing how the stupid has swallowed the whole party, the media is also the problem for not reporting that the current Republican party is not what many republican moderates and independents think it is. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Don’t you think most of them have noticed by now? If they haven’t figured out that their “fiscal responsibility” has been bullshit for decades, they won’t figure this out now. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15028 "2014-06-03T21:26:53Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m trying to figure out who’s more pitiful – a person who continues to be a member of the Catholic Church, or someone who stays Republican. . . . With Catholicism, at least the great Cathedrals are still beautiful. The Republicans don’t have such a lovely or enduring edifice. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15029 "2014-06-03T21:41:31Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > And with that, I propose we create a poll to select the top ten Stupid Republican Ideas. Nominate your favorites, I’ll come up with a poll of 20-30, and we will let the people decide. My nominations, in no particular order; 1. Alienating Blacks, Hispanics and Women, by passing voting restrictions, fighting immigration reform, talking about “legitimate rape” and opposing contraception availability, among other things. 2. Loudly proclaiming there’s not enough guns right after a shooting tragedy. I’m pro gun but I think the NRA/2nd Amendment fringe crazies hurt the cause more than help, while alienating non-gun people. 3. Denial of science and in particular climate science, to the point of passing laws to prohibit use of scientific data in making law and planning policy. 4. Birtherism and ridiculous “beliefs” about Obama being a “secret Muslim” “Anti-American” etc. 5. Corporations are people. 6. Promoting knee jerk military responses to a nation sick of wars that have not panned out as advertised. 7. Promising to focus like a laser on jobs, jobs, jobs and then forgetting about that except for referring to every move Obama makes as “job killing”. When it comes to actually doing things and having new ideas all they concentrate on is cutting social programs that benefit the poor, cutting taxes and imposing Beaver Cleaver era social policy. 8. Whining about the persecution of Christians. Any restriction on the ability of church to do whatever it wants or to give equal protection to gays and everyone else the church opposes is seen as “oppression”. Get over it. This country is overwhelmingly Christian and will be for a long, long time. You are not being persecuted. 9. Referring to everyone that gives a shit about not turning our country into a fracked out, oil spilled, bulldozed, mountain top removed, strip mined, urban sprawled, toxic waste dump as an “environmental extremist”. 10. Unlimited, secret contributions to political campaigns. More money in politics is not the answer to the problem, it IS the problem. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15030 "2014-06-03T22:27:34Z")
Speaking of banking on the short attention spans of the voters… [Oliver North accuses Obama of “financing a terrorist organization” with Bergdahl release.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/oliver-north-yes-oliver-north-accuses-obama-financing-terrorist-organization-bergdahl-releas) Oliver Fucking North. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15031 "2014-06-03T23:01:18Z")
Yeah, that’s a black hole calling the kettle black. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15032 "2014-06-03T23:01:25Z")
Whoa, hold up there! He simply insisted that the reporters inquire > [@](#): > > …if there was “a ransom, a fiscal, financial, money transaction,” with the Taliban as part of the deal. “Was there a ransom paid? Did the government of the United States, either directly or indirectly, finance a terrorist organization?”… Just askin’ questions. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15033 "2014-06-03T23:11:32Z")
> [@Double\_Foolscap](#): > > It was explained that it was the bismilla, but he will not let it go (let it go!) will not let it go (let it go!)… _Applauds_ Magnifico! ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15034 "2014-06-04T11:50:05Z")
And once again we can count on our good friend from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell - always ready and willing to contribute to this thread. Turns out he’s not a fan of the administration’s latest move to cut carbon emissions (too much “liberal cap-and-trade” maybe). So what does he want to do? [Give states the right to ignore EPA regulations if they would cause electric rates to rise or jobs to be lost.](https://news.yahoo.com/mcconnell-plans-senate-effort-preempt-epa-carbon-crackdown-171224546--finance.html) Who needs an environment or a future anyway? A green tomorrow doesn’t help us with jobs today! Cheap electricity! That’s the Amurrican way! ---
**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:** [June 4, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15035 "2014-06-04T14:09:48Z")
Makes perfect sense to me. I’ll choke to death on smog, but I’ll die richer! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15036 "2014-06-04T14:14:40Z")
I do sort of pity the pols who are forced by electoral reality to pander to their constituencies’ largest employers. McConnell \*has \*to denounce “Obama’s War on Coal” simply because he’s in Kentucky. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15037 "2014-06-04T16:25:46Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > 15,000th reply. That post was kind of stupid, are you a Republican? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15038 "2014-06-04T17:56:31Z")
[The right](http://www.salon.com/2014/06/04/the_8_most_absurd_reactions_to_obamas_new_climate_change_mandate_partner/) [responds](http://www.salon.com/2014/06/03/keep_peeing_in_the_pool_climate_deniers_lose_their_minds_after_new_epa_rules/) to the new EPA regs on CO2 emissions. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15039 "2014-06-04T18:04:56Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > That post was kind of stupid, are you a Republican? Go back to pages 199 and 200 for similar discussions. I kind of like River Hippie’s start on a top ten Republican stupid idea list. The one tha bothers me the most is the anti-science stances the party seems to be adapting with greater frequency. Putting anti-science Congresscritters on science committees is an excellent stroke of stupidity. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15040 "2014-06-04T18:16:38Z")
> [@C3](#): > > Speaking of banking on the short attention spans of the voters… > > [Oliver North accuses Obama of “financing a terrorist organization” with Bergdahl release.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/oliver-north-yes-oliver-north-accuses-obama-financing-terrorist-organization-bergdahl-releas) > > Oliver Fucking North. Financing terrorists? No, that’s what HSBC and other banks do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=751) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=753)