# 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:** 771
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15401 "2014-06-25T20:56:51Z")
Yeah, good point. I think we’ve all been trolled. [This guy has it right.](http://ivn.us/2014/06/24/congress-sue-obama-executive-orders-wont/) Nobody’s going to sue anybody, it just made for a headline and to rile up the base. ---
**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 25, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15402 "2014-06-25T21:03:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > So, even though he may have been a free agent (so to speak), participating in someone else breaking their marriage vows is probably egregious enough that no longer working for a member of the HoR is called for. Yeah, the GOP doesn’t want an adulterer serving on someone’s staff; not when qualifications like that can get you elected! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15403 "2014-06-25T21:51:42Z")
The Democratic governor of Virginia said that he would veto any bills passed by the Republican legislature (which got enough votes by bribing a Democratic state Senator into resigning) which would forbid Medicaid expansion (Governor McAuliffe campaigned on expanding Medicaid in the state). The Republican Speaker of the House said he would call the legislature into session Monday to vote on the forbidding of Medicaid expansion, so the Governor went away for the Father’s Day weekend. While he was gone, the Speaker called the House into session, passed the Medicaid bill, and [had the Capitol Police break into the Governor’s office in the state Capitol so they could lay the bill on his desk](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/25/to-foil-medicaid-expansion-in-va-gop-lawmakers-broke-into-governors-office/). That gives him fewer days to veto the bill, under the state law which requires a veto within seven days of a bill’s passage. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15404 "2014-06-25T22:22:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Democratic governor of Virginia said that he would veto any bills passed by the Republican legislature (which got enough votes by bribing a Democratic state Senator into resigning) which would forbid Medicaid expansion (Governor McAuliffe campaigned on expanding Medicaid in the state). The Republican Speaker of the House said he would call the legislature into session Monday to vote on the forbidding of Medicaid expansion, so the Governor went away for the Father’s Day weekend. While he was gone, the Speaker called the House into session, passed the Medicaid bill, and [had the Capitol Police break into the Governor’s office in the state Capitol so they could lay the bill on his desk](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/25/to-foil-medicaid-expansion-in-va-gop-lawmakers-broke-into-governors-office/). That gives him fewer days to veto the bill, under the state law which requires a veto within seven days of a bill’s passage. OK, this is getting bizarre. ---
**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 25, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15405 "2014-06-25T23:17:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > OK, this is getting bizarre. It seems to be the traditional method for a crazy extremist group to overcome their lack of popular muscle and seize control of the government. I think it happened in some country somewhere a while back and millions of people died as a result. Not to, like, godwinize the Tea Pratty or anything – they are just not that good. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15406 "2014-06-25T23:19:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Democratic governor of Virginia said that he would veto any bills passed by the Republican legislature (which got enough votes by bribing a Democratic state Senator into resigning) which would forbid Medicaid expansion (Governor McAuliffe campaigned on expanding Medicaid in the state). The Republican Speaker of the House said he would call the legislature into session Monday to vote on the forbidding of Medicaid expansion, so the Governor went away for the Father’s Day weekend. While he was gone, the Speaker called the House into session, passed the Medicaid bill, and [had the Capitol Police break into the Governor’s office in the state Capitol so they could lay the bill on his desk](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/25/to-foil-medicaid-expansion-in-va-gop-lawmakers-broke-into-governors-office/). That gives him fewer days to veto the bill, under the state law which requires a veto within seven days of a bill’s passage. This course of action threatens to move past shenanigans and veer into straight-up monkey business. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15407 "2014-06-25T23:43:14Z")
They broke into his office?! Oh what the fucking fuck?? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15408 "2014-06-25T23:52:24Z")
No – they got the Capitol Police to break into the office! :eek: 😕 ---
**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:** [June 26, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15409 "2014-06-26T00:03:00Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > No – they got the Capitol Police to break into the office! :eek: 😕 At least one member of the Capitol Police should get his arse fired. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15410 "2014-06-26T01:22:54Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > They broke into his office?! Oh what the fucking fuck?? This just goes to show that Virginia needs a “Stand Your Ground” law. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15411 "2014-06-26T01:25:47Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I hope I’m about to make a fool of myself, because I like thinking Boehner and his ilk are frothing unthinking haters who are completely off base once again. > > But I don’t think it’s the number of executive orders that would be the backbone of this suit - the sheer \*number \*of executive orders only has currency among the most stupid of the right wing. > > It’s that he’s issuing executive orders that are, in Boehner’s opinion (or at least he claims it’s his opinion), really close to legislation. It’s one thing for Obama to direct his employees, just as a CEO can. Or to change minimum wage for the executive branch. But if he directs federal employees to not enforce federal law, which he’s sworn to uphold, they may have something there. Of course he’s not suing over the sheer number of them. The point I obviously didn’t make well the first time is, every president makes executive orders (except the one who died a month into office), including their butt-buddy Bush … and as an aside, he did even more of them. But Democrats never called him a [lawless tyrant](http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/06/14/palin-border-crisis-congress-lacks-guts-impeach-%E2%80%98tyrant%E2%80%99-obama-over-lawlessness) and _sued_ him for the ones we didn’t like. We recognized it was within his power to do so and worked the system as it’s designed. > [@bup](#): > > Yeah, good point. I think we’ve all been trolled. [This guy has it right.](http://ivn.us/2014/06/24/congress-sue-obama-executive-orders-wont/) > > Nobody’s going to sue anybody, it just made for a headline and to rile up the base. I think he has it wrong, given that he actually thinks if Boehner et al win, it will also be a loss because: _[By] forcing the administration to withdraw some of its executive actions, the process will showcase the Constitution working as it is supposed to work, with the legislative and executive branches disagreeing about the correct interpretation of the Constitution and the Judicial branch stepping in to mediate the dispute. Americans will get a civics lesson and life will go on._ In what universe will winning the legal argument that the black, but not-black-enough, gay, atheist, Muslim, Christian Radical, Anti-Christ, Messiah, anti-American, Kenyan, Arab half-breed, Communist, Socialist, Marxist, Nazi, pawn of the UN, dictator pussy is also a lawless tyrant make the Republicans slink back into “normal” life and shut the hell up about it? Just the mere notion is cray-cray. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Democratic governor of Virginia said that he would veto any bills passed by the Republican legislature (which got enough votes by bribing a Democratic state Senator into resigning) which would forbid Medicaid expansion (Governor McAuliffe campaigned on expanding Medicaid in the state). The Republican Speaker of the House said he would call the legislature into session Monday to vote on the forbidding of Medicaid expansion, so the Governor went away for the Father’s Day weekend. While he was gone, the Speaker called the House into session, passed the Medicaid bill, and [had the Capitol Police break into the Governor’s office in the state Capitol so they could lay the bill on his desk](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/25/to-foil-medicaid-expansion-in-va-gop-lawmakers-broke-into-governors-office/). That gives him fewer days to veto the bill, under the state law which requires a veto within seven days of a bill’s passage. :eek: They have no fucking shame and not a shred of respect for the democratic process. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15412 "2014-06-26T01:53:01Z")
> [@bup](#): > > It’s that he’s issuing executive orders that are, in Boehner’s opinion (or at least he claims it’s his opinion), really close to legislation. It’s one thing for Obama to direct his employees, just as a CEO can. Or to change minimum wage for the executive branch. But if he directs federal employees to not enforce federal law, which he’s sworn to uphold, they may have something there. Then his remedy is to impeach. The list of cognizable claims (i.e., those a federal court won’t dismiss as political questions) against a sitting POTUS is vanishingly small. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15413 "2014-06-26T02:20:40Z")
Rick Santorum: “[Anti-gay business people are being sent to re-education camps.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/rick-santorum-reeducation-camps_n_5531354.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013)” ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15414 "2014-06-26T06:26:05Z")
Fabulous re-education camps ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15415 "2014-06-26T11:37:40Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Fabulous re-education camps 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15416 "2014-06-26T12:16:55Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Fabulous re-education camps I’m not going unless they hire George Takei as a lecturer! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15417 "2014-06-26T13:48:03Z")
I’d settle for an in-service with Harvey Fierstein. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15418 "2014-06-26T13:54:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rick Santorum: “[Anti-gay business people are being sent to re-education camps.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/rick-santorum-reeducation-camps_n_5531354.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013)” It’s true. They’re called “courts”. 😃 ---
**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 26, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15419 "2014-06-26T14:04:35Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I’m not going unless they hire George Takei as a lecturer! Oh my! ---
**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:** [June 26, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15420 "2014-06-26T15:05:24Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rick Santorum: “[Anti-gay business people are being sent to re-education camps.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/rick-santorum-reeducation-camps_n_5531354.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013)” Obama wants everybody in America to go to a re-education camp. What a **snob**! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=770) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=772)