# 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:** 793
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15841 "2014-07-28T04:35:00Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Ted Cruz threatens to hold (I presume he means filibuster) all State Department nominees until the Admin answers questions about why it suspended flights to Israel.](http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1594) A single Senator can put a hold on a nomination so that it never even gets debated or brought to a vote, it doesn’t require a filibuster. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15842 "2014-07-28T13:10:52Z")
Let’s hope he goes ahead with that. It will be a sure way to get rid of the practice. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15843 "2014-07-28T14:36:43Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > \*[Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon today](https://flashalert.net/news.html?id=3856) [7/14/2014] condemned gubernatorial candidate and State Representative Dennis Richardson (R-Central Point) for ignorant and offensive remarks about women’s health. > > In 1990, Richardson wrote a letter to the editor of The Oregonian claiming that “a woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby.”\* > > You don’t say. Is he of the same opinion still? That was 24 years ago. (Although I haven’t noticed a large number of Republicans holding that opinion who’d change it, ever.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15844 "2014-07-28T15:27:13Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A single Senator can put a hold on a nomination so that it never even gets debated or brought to a vote, it doesn’t require a filibuster. Rather too much of a [_liberum veto_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto), that. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15845 "2014-07-28T16:44:21Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Is he of the same opinion still? That was 24 years ago. (Although I haven’t noticed a large number of Republicans holding that opinion who’d change it, ever.) BYU. 9 children. I will go out on a limb and guess: yeah. ---
**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 28, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15846 "2014-07-28T18:07:27Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > BYU. 9 children. I will go out on a limb and guess: yeah. Me too. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15847 "2014-07-28T19:12:09Z")
Palin has her own [“TV” channel](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/sarah-palins-new-tv-network-is-low-budget-upbeat-and-a-buck-more-than-netflix/375133/). So far, you get her talking, Bristol’s blog (really?), and “Sally’s Word of the Day”. If the screenshot of the homepage is any indication, \*that \*little gem will be loaded with religious or political terms. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15848 "2014-07-28T20:00:42Z")
I’m sure it will succeed with a wildness not seen since her blockbuster tour-de-force _The Undefeated_ took America by storm. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15849 "2014-07-28T21:08:27Z")
[Michael Peroutka, GOP nominee for the County Council of Anne Arundel Co., Maryland:](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/28/watch-gop-candidate-sings-dixie-as-his-national-anthem-at-alabama-secessionist-event/) > [@](#): > > Peroutka generated controversy after winning the GOP nomination because he believes that the current U.S. and state governments are no longer valid, and should be destroyed by secession or other means. > > "You need to secede and then you need to have the biblical understanding of law and government, and make the applications,” Peroutka told the League of the South in 2012. “So we need to take the biblical understand of law and government into account no matter what the outcome is with respect to the crumbling of the current regime.” > > “We’re going to have to have this foundational information in the hearts and the minds of the people or else liberty won’t survive the secession either,” he explained. “I’m saying this because I don’t want people from League of the South to think for one minute that I am about reforming the current regime, and studying the Constitution is about reforming the regime. I, like many of you and like Patrick Henry, probably have come to the conclusion that we have smelled a rat from the beginning.” > > At the conclusion of his nearly hour-long talk, Peroutka asked the audience to rise and sing the “national anthem.” > > But instead of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Peroutka led them to sing “Dixie,” the de facto anthem of the Confederacy during the Civil War. The song tells the story from the point of view of a freed slave who wishes to return to the plantation where he was born. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15850 "2014-07-28T22:03:50Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m sure it will succeed with a wildness not seen since her blockbuster tour-de-force _The Undefeated_ took America by storm. Yeah, but she had Rock Hudson and John Wayne as costars in that one. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15851 "2014-07-28T23:59:27Z")
So \*she’s \*the reason Rock Hudson became gay! ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15852 "2014-07-29T00:05:15Z")
Mike Kelly has likened the [EPA’s rule on power plant emissions to terrorism](http://thehill.com/regulation/213514-lawmaker-coal-is-obamas-kryptonite). And coal is Obama’s kryptonite. How many things have been named that over the last 6 years? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15853 "2014-07-29T04:27:48Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Mike Kelly has likened the [EPA’s rule on power plant emissions to terrorism](http://thehill.com/regulation/213514-lawmaker-coal-is-obamas-kryptonite). And coal is Obama’s kryptonite. How many things have been named that over the last 6 years? When the only tool you have for getting rid of Obama is a brain that thinks on a comic-book level, everything looks like kryptonite. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15854 "2014-07-29T04:38:50Z")
Isn’t Kryptonite what the super villains use against the good guy? So Kelly is Lex Luthor and Obama is… ? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15855 "2014-07-29T13:47:26Z")
[This year’s Texas GOP platform](http://billmoyers.com/2014/07/22/deep-in-the-tell-tale-heart-of-the-texas-gop/) is even stupider than you would expect. ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15856 "2014-07-29T14:52:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [This year’s Texas GOP platform](http://billmoyers.com/2014/07/22/deep-in-the-tell-tale-heart-of-the-texas-gop/) is even stupider than you would expect. No, it’s pretty much exactly as stupid as i expected. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15857 "2014-07-29T14:53:34Z")
After all the talk about impeaching the president for eating crackers like he owns the place has started to backfire, Republicans are now [blaming Democrats for “ginning up” the impeachment talks.](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/21-million-reasons-why-dems-love-the-gops-anti-obama-push) It’s like they don’t know about recording devices, or the internet. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15858 "2014-07-29T15:01:32Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [This year’s Texas GOP platform](http://billmoyers.com/2014/07/22/deep-in-the-tell-tale-heart-of-the-texas-gop/) is even stupider than you would expect. “We’re not there yet! Keep digging!” ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15859 "2014-07-29T17:26:28Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > After all the talk about impeaching the president for eating crackers like he owns the place has started to backfire, Republicans are now [blaming Democrats for “ginning up” the impeachment talks.](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/21-million-reasons-why-dems-love-the-gops-anti-obama-push) > > It’s like they don’t know about recording devices, or the internet. However, they **do** know that the American public has an attention span measured in minutes. And they have no problems with lying through their teeth. So, sadly, their strategy might work after all. Oh, who am I kidding? It’s probably already working. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15860 "2014-07-29T18:10:38Z")
Well, at least we’ll get a nice Daily Show montage with 15 different Republicans saying, “Impeach him!” or “Impeachment is an option,” and Boehner at the end saying, “Democrats made up this impeachment talk.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=792) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=794)