# 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:** 871
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17401 "2014-10-15T03:31:16Z")
The fact that Congress decides the jurisdiction of the courts is pretty well established. The courts already allow challenges in 1st amendment cases without standing. And they have also been willing to get involved in legislative-executive disputes when they believe it appropriate to do so. Congress giving them explicit legal authority to decide constitutional questions without standing being necessary would be helpful. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17402 "2014-10-15T04:08:26Z")
So, **adaher** never seems to ever wonder if the Republicans are deceiving, ripping, flimflamming, hustling, double-crossing, hosing, sucker punching or pulling his leg when after all that talk and leaving the imprison that they filed the lawsuit in reality they have not done so? The super-cynical in me expects that Bohener will eventually file, but when for all intents and practical purposes the case will never reach the Supreme court for a verdict as it will be a moot point since Obama will not be president by then. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17403 "2014-10-15T04:23:59Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Congress should give them that leg. SCOTUS should decide these cases simply by having a certain number of Congressmen ask them to. What “certain number” did you have in mind, and can Obama veto their decision? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17404 "2014-10-15T04:27:01Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Impeachment is an extreme act only to be used in cases of extreme Presidential lawlessness. > > A better approach than either suing or impeachment would be to simply expand the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court by statute, telling them that they need to adjudicate these legislative-executive disputes even if no one has standing. SCOTUS overturned Trumans’ takeover of the steel companies, so they are willing to go here when they believe they have a political leg to stand on. Congress should give them that leg. SCOTUS should decide these cases simply by having a certain number of Congressmen ask them to. I move a vote of thanks to **adaher** for showing up to deliver a SRIOTD to the thread _in person_. Most of his cohort require us to go out and scour the interwebs to collect their, um, offerings. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17405 "2014-10-15T04:33:04Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > What “certain number” did you have in mind, and can Obama veto their decision? Call it 50. It can be 20 or 200, doesn’t really matter. No, Obama could not veto a Supreme Court decision. However, we do need to establish what the boundaries are as far as a President choosing not to enforce laws. Obama has really pushed the envelope in that regard and you can guarantee the next GOP President will take that to the next level. Perhaps lower taxes without the need for Congressional approval by simply not enforcing any tax rate over 25%. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17406 "2014-10-15T04:54:39Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Call it 50. It can be 20 or 200, doesn’t really matter. No, Obama could not veto a Supreme Court decision. You misunderstand me. I’m talking about the decision from Congress to even bring in the Supreme Court. You said Congress should vote to make it happen. I think there’s a name for when they do that kind of thing. In fact, I think the whole process might even be written down somewhere. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17407 "2014-10-15T05:04:36Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I move a vote of thanks to **adaher** for showing up to deliver a SRIOTD to the thread _in person_. Most of his cohort require us to go out and scour the interwebs to collect their, um, offerings. Yeah, well, **adaher** has been trying to derail this thread with his vacuous cruft for a while now. He may be amusing at first, but he gets boring pretty quickly. He is more just inane than breathtakingly stupid. The interwebs have given us some real jaw-droppers, the like of which **adaher** cannot compare with. He is like a garden-variety turd floating happily along in a shitstorm roil of bilious orange sewage. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17408 "2014-10-15T05:15:37Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Yeah, well, **adaher** has been trying to derail this thread with his vacuous cruft for a while now. He may be amusing at first, but he gets boring pretty quickly. He is more just inane than breathtakingly stupid. The interwebs have given us some real jaw-droppers, the like of which **adaher** cannot compare with. He is like a garden-variety turd floating happily along in a shitstorm roil of bilious orange sewage. This thread would be red sewage, surely. And there’s another one for the blue sewage. But don’t fall into both……or you could be marooned. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17409 "2014-10-15T05:17:01Z")
Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17410 "2014-10-15T05:17:14Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > He is like a garden-variety turd floating happily along in a shitstorm roil of bilious orange sewage. I made some of that once, turns out I ate too much Escolar. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17411 "2014-10-15T05:20:03Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > I made some of that once, turns out I ate too much Escolar. But did it come out your mouth, like a Republican, or the normal end? ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17412 "2014-10-15T05:28:26Z")
The normal , although at the time I was ranting about the apparent unfairness of the worlds, as appeared to me from my narrow viewpoint of the dunny, and why it was everyone else’s fault even though the liquid flame jet emanating from my arse was largely due to my own poor choices. I probably could have come up with a few SRIOTD at the time, being in a ludicrous frame of mind. Fortunately it passed and I was suitably ashamed of myself. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17413 "2014-10-15T05:45:10Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Sorry. You want that last cigarette, or shall we just get on with it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17414 "2014-10-15T15:38:35Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Sorry. I’m sure you are. \ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17415 "2014-10-15T16:16:42Z")
[GOP Congressman: Obama Wants Ebola To Spread So He Can ‘Take Control’ Of Everything.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-congressman-obama-wants-ebola-spread-so-he-can-take-control-everything) ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17416 "2014-10-15T16:24:55Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [GOP Congressman: Obama Wants Ebola To Spread So He Can ‘Take Control’ Of Everything.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-congressman-obama-wants-ebola-spread-so-he-can-take-control-everything) Imagine my surprise to see the name Rep. Steve Stockman ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17417 "2014-10-15T16:53:31Z")
I was betting it would be Gohmert. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17418 "2014-10-15T17:22:59Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I was betting it would be Gohmert. I also thought _America’s Dumbest Congressman_… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17419 "2014-10-15T17:45:49Z")
[Ben Carson thinks “political correctness” could lead U.S. to collapse like Rome.](http://www.salon.com/2014/10/15/ben_carson_thinks_political_correctness_could_lead_u_s_to_collapse_like_rome/) > [@](#): > > Carson expanded on the notion in an interview with Bloomberg Politics’ Phil Mattingly. “For Carson,” Mattingly writes, “the canary in the American coalmine is political correctness.” > > “The reason that is very troubling to me,” Carson explains, “is that it’s the very same thing that happened to the Roman Empire. They were extremely powerful. There was no way anybody could overcome them. But these philosophers, with the long flowing white robes and the long white beards, they could wax eloquently on every subject, but nothing was right and nothing was wrong. They soon completely lost sight of who they were.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17420 "2014-10-15T17:54:26Z")
[Gov. Nikki Haley of SC: It’s OK to have the Confederate flag at the statehouse because “not a single CEO” has complained.](http://www.salon.com/2014/10/15/nikki_haley_its_ok_to_have_the_confederate_flag_at_the_statehouse_because_not_a_single_ceo_has_complained/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=870) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=872)