# 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:** 891
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17801 "2014-11-05T18:28:36Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > I heard a lot of “reach across the table” talk from Republican victory speeches yesterday. Lets see if they can actually do it. The only reason I see any Republican reaching across the table is to slap someone for daring to disagree with him. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17802 "2014-11-05T19:44:28Z")
John Fugelsang said it better than I could… > [@](#): > > 50 straight months of private sector job growth, gas prices down, medical inflation at lowest rate in 50 yrs, record Wall St profits, unemployment below 6%, bin Laden dead, lowest growth in govt spending since Eisenhower, deficit cut in half - clearly it’s time to go back to doing exactly everything Bush did. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17803 "2014-11-05T19:59:42Z")
I guess if it was part of a successful strategy, it wasn’t really stupid. dammit ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17804 "2014-11-05T21:11:34Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Get ready for all the “Mandate” bullshit. [Oh, yeah, about that . . .](http://www.salon.com/2014/11/05/there_is_no_gop_mandate_not_even_republicans_know_what_their_governing_agenda_is/) ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17805 "2014-11-06T00:01:44Z")
They’re already bringing out the impeachment crap. And threats to charge members of the Administration with treason. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17806 "2014-11-06T00:06:16Z")
I’m kind of hoping they do. Constantly and obstinately. If it weren’t for the Supreme Court and the environment, it could be more entertaining. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17807 "2014-11-06T00:18:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > They’re already bringing out the impeachment crap. And threats to charge members of the Administration with treason. That is going to be a continuing headache for Mitch McConnell: how throw a rope around Ted Cruz and the other certifiables who smell blood in the water. McConnell already drew a line in the sand, vowing there would be no government shutdowns or debt ceiling showdowns. Cruz is not one to take fuck you for an answer, however. Could be entertaining to watch the GOP come apart right in the middle of the 2016 campaign. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17808 "2014-11-06T01:13:42Z")
“_Sir, I don’t think you need a press conference to announce to the nation that you have a man date._” ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17809 "2014-11-06T14:38:31Z")
As Jon Stewart reported, the mountain of stupid coming from Republican congresscritters continues and it got bigger. > **[Republican Sweep Highlights Climate Change Politics In Alaska](https://www.npr.org/2014/11/06/361896179/republican-sweep-highlights-climate-change-politics-in-alaska)** > > GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is set to head the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. It can be easier for her oil-reliant state to adapt to the changing climate rather than address its causes. > [@](#): > > At that same election-night party, Murkowski said she takes climate change seriously. > > “I come from a state where we see a warming. We’re seeing it with increased water temperatures; we’re seeing it with ice that is thinner; we’re seeing it with migratory patterns that are changing,” she said. “So I look at this and I say this is something that we must address.” > > But does she mean we should address the cause of global warming? Hard to say, since she’s apparently not so sure what the cause is — or whether mankind is to blame. She mentioned a volcano she had heard about in Iceland. > > “The emissions that are being put in the air by that volcano are a thousand years’ worth of emissions that would come from all of the vehicles, all of the manufacturing in Europe,” she said. > Orca Inlet, Cordova’s fishing harbor, on a blustery day this month. Commercial fishing is the small Alaskan town’s primary industry. > > “What can I say?” wonders Princeton professor Michael Oppenheimer, a leading expert on climate change. **“It’s simply untrue. I don’t know where she gets that number from.”** > > \*\*Oppenheimer says it’s actually the other way around: Annual emissions from Europe are 10 times bigger than the annual emissions of all volcanoes put together. And he says the argument misses a bigger point: Humans are adding carbon dioxide to what was a balanced system. > > “So not only is the number wrong, but the context is highly deceptive,” he says.\*\* ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17810 "2014-11-06T14:44:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > They’re already bringing out the impeachment crap. And threats to charge members of the Administration with treason. Please god let them do this. I mean, it worked so well for the Gingrich Congress. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17811 "2014-11-06T15:22:30Z")
No kidding. Let them fly their flag high for the next two years and let everybody know just how far they are willing to go to gut this country. Impeachment and treason trials would be wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17812 "2014-11-06T18:57:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > No kidding. Let them fly their flag high for the next two years and let everybody know just how far they are willing to go to gut this country. Impeachment and treason trials would be wonderful. Of course, a treason trial requires an indictment first, and Congress can’t do that, it’s all on the executive branch. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17813 "2014-11-06T19:03:02Z")
And this just in, from our good friends at Daily Kos… [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...al-voter-fraud](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...al-voter-fraud) Intensive anti-voter-fraud effort finds no instance of actual voter fraud Money quote. > [@](#): > > A week before Election Day, the “voter integrity” group True the Vote released a new smart phone app to empower its army of citizen detectives to report suspected incidents of voter fraud and intimidation across the country, in the hopes of creating, as True the Vote’s founder Catherine Engelbrecht put in an interview on Monday, “an archive that will finally pull the curtain back on the myth that there is no voter fraud.” > > But it seems that the evidence of massive voter fraud that Engelbrecht hoped to expose failed to materialize. In the week that the app was available, users recorded only 18 incidents of election irregularities, the vast majority of which had nothing to do with True the Vote’s policy priorities. Nice work, guys! Thanks for the help! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17814 "2014-11-06T19:42:28Z")
That link didn’t work for me, but here’s a [fixed link](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/06/1342626/-Intensive-anti-voter-fraud-effort-finds-no-instance-of-actual-voter-fraud). ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17815 "2014-11-06T23:46:43Z")
So does that make Democrat Voter Fraud™ an unknown known, a known unknown, or an unknown unknown? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17816 "2014-11-07T01:03:42Z")
I expect to see something along the lies of ’ well the strict new laws for voter disenfranchisement , errr we mean, voter registration laws, must have worked because we could not find any evidence of voter fraud this time around, and therefore in the past there was voter fraud and as the republicans won this time, that means in the past when the democrats won they must have been the beneficiary of voter fraud, ---
**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:** [November 7, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17817 "2014-11-07T01:09:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > And this just in, from our good friends at Daily Kos… > > [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...al-voter-fraud](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...al-voter-fraud) > > Intensive anti-voter-fraud effort finds no instance of actual voter fraud > > Money quote. > > Nice work, guys! Thanks for the help! Figures. Although I just told my wife this, and she said, “What did you expect? How could there be voter fraud if hardly anyone voted at all?” She has a point. ☹ ---
**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:** [November 7, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17818 "2014-11-07T01:34:40Z")
Bear in mind, though, that according to the 'net book of lies, turnout was even lower in '06 when the Democrats rode a wave of anger and frustration into power. Lower turnout yields greater extremism. But really, Joni Ernst? Fuck, that is sad. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17819 "2014-11-07T04:29:17Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > So does that make Democrat Voter Fraud™ an unknown known, a known unknown, or an unknown unknown? I … don’t … know … ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17820 "2014-11-07T06:39:15Z")
I don’t know anything for certain, and I’m not even sure about that. But Joni Ernst is Michelle Bachman with a gun. What can possibly go right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=890) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=892)