# 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:** 786
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15701 "2014-07-16T00:31:45Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Oh, goodie. But wait, there’s more. She thinks “what women most want is more time, including ‘more time in the morning to get ready.’” She’s been well trained. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15702 "2014-07-16T02:39:09Z")
Speaking as a guy, I want more time in the morning to get ready. I still won’t be ready, but I’ll have more time to sleep. Cool with that. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15703 "2014-07-16T03:37:53Z")
Sleep? Uhm, no. Morning sex, thankyouverymuch. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15704 "2014-07-16T04:05:26Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > Sleep? Uhm, no. Morning sex, thankyouverymuch. You’re welcome! And afterwards I’ll explain all these difficult political concepts to you, pretty eyes. Don’t worry, I’ll use small words and domestic metaphors so you can understand things. And then you can make me breakfast. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15705 "2014-07-16T11:35:20Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > Sleep? Uhm, no. Morning sex, thankyouverymuch. Uh-uh-uh, honeycakes. You know how we feel about birth control, hmm ? Didn’t we agree you should hold it between your knees ? That’s a good girl. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15706 "2014-07-16T13:32:57Z")
GOP politician in Arizona tries to score some points on Twitter over migrant children. He takes pictures of the bus and describes the “fear on their faces”. [Amusingly, this was a bus full of YMCA campers.](http://www.azcentral.com/story/brahm-resnik/2014/07/15/arizona-politician-mistakes-campers-for-migrant-children/12701279/) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15707 "2014-07-16T13:49:02Z")
The fear might have been real. 😉 ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15708 "2014-07-16T14:56:02Z")
Bob Frey of [“Sperm Causes AIDS”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17540327&postcount=15647) fame [expounds further on his scientimifical larnin’](http://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2014/07/listen-to-bob-freys-2004-dinosaurs-have-always-lived-with-man-mn-senate-committee-testimony.html): > [@](#): > > …There’s this 16-foot tall giant was found with numerous others around the world [Frey had placed a large plastic femur on the table before he started tesfying]. > > Dinosaurs have always lived with man. Is the rock wrong or is the theory wrong? I suggest to you that the theory is wrong. > > Dinosaurs have always lived with man. And here’s a plesiosaur that washed up on the beach on Nove Scotia in 2002. This is a juvenile that also washed up on the beach in Lake Erie… ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15709 "2014-07-16T15:13:50Z")
Aw, come on, cut the guy some clack. 2004 was a very different time, way back at the very dawn of our scientific understanding of human-dinosaur interaction. Hell, _Jurassic Park III_ had only been out three years by then. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15710 "2014-07-16T15:26:06Z")
:smack: Arizona state congressman (and national congressional candidate) [**Adam Kwasman**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kwasman) \*\* intercepted a bus full of migrant children\*\* in Phoenix Tuesday, tweeting, “Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the **abrogation of the rule of law**.” Or so he thought. Kwasman was caught short when Arizona Central reporter Brahm Resnik informed him the bus he lamented was **actually full of YMCA campers** , who another reporter said were “laughing and taking pictures of the media.” [http://www.mediaite.com/tv/az-congressman-mistakes-bus-of-ymca-campers-for-migrant-kids/](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/az-congressman-mistakes-bus-of-ymca-campers-for-migrant-kids/) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15711 "2014-07-16T15:42:34Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > :smack: > Arizona state congressman (and national congressional candidate) [**Adam Kwasman**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kwasman) \*\* intercepted a bus full of migrant children\*\* in Phoenix Tuesday, tweeting, “Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the **abrogation of the rule of law**.” Or so he thought. Kwasman was caught short when Arizona Central reporter Brahm Resnik informed him the bus he lamented was **actually full of YMCA campers** , who another reporter said were “laughing and taking pictures of the media.” > [Arizona | Mediaite](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/az-congressman-mistakes-bus-of-ymca-campers-for-migrant-kids/) You were ninja’d 4 posts up. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15712 "2014-07-16T15:50:54Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > GOP politician in Arizona tries to score some points on Twitter over migrant children. He takes pictures of the bus and describes the “fear on their faces”. [Amusingly, this was a bus full of YMCA campers.](http://www.azcentral.com/story/brahm-resnik/2014/07/15/arizona-politician-mistakes-campers-for-migrant-children/12701279/) At lest the fear part might be real. After all, they were face to face with a Republican pol. Edit: I seem to have been ninja’ed on this. Dang. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15713 "2014-07-16T15:52:28Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > GOP politician in Arizona tries to score some points on Twitter over migrant children. He takes pictures of the bus and describes the “fear on their faces”. [Amusingly, this was a bus full of YMCA campers.](http://www.azcentral.com/story/brahm-resnik/2014/07/15/arizona-politician-mistakes-campers-for-migrant-children/12701279/) If you check out the politician’s [website](http://www.adamkwasman.com/congress/), you can see that he’s endorsed by Joe Arpaio. That tells you just about all you need to know about his politics and his intelligence, i think. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15714 "2014-07-16T16:07:18Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > GOP politician in Arizona tries to score some points on Twitter over migrant children. He takes pictures of the bus and describes the “fear on their faces”. [Amusingly, this was a bus full of YMCA campers.](http://www.azcentral.com/story/brahm-resnik/2014/07/15/arizona-politician-mistakes-campers-for-migrant-children/12701279/) _Of course_ that’s what they’re going to \*say \*- did you expect them to just 'fess up they were illegals? “Oh, we’re campers from the YMCA.” Think I was born yesterday, Chester? I want birth certificates! Long form birth certificates! ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15715 "2014-07-16T16:22:46Z")
Young man, are you living in fear? I said, young man, with Republicans near? I said, young man, into your bus they peer Just to claim you’re so unhappy. Just point and laugh at the D. O. R. K. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15716 "2014-07-16T16:50:16Z")
Is this real life? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15717 "2014-07-16T17:04:40Z")
No, it’s just fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15718 "2014-07-16T17:05:47Z")
I feel as though I’m trapped in some sort of natural disaster, with no form of exit. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15719 "2014-07-16T17:17:43Z")
Whoa! That is so, like, _existential!_ ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15720 "2014-07-16T17:20:13Z")
Rep. Phil Gingrey, (R-GA), is worried illegal aliens might spread [ebola virus and small pox in America.](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gop-making-alarmist-claims-against-migrant-children). Ebola virus does not exist outside of sub-saharan Africa, and smallpox was officially eradicated worldwide thirty five years ago. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=785) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=787)