# 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:** 892
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17821 "2014-11-07T06:40:41Z")
A [neat little roundup of conservative pundits](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservatives-freak-out-bipartisan-senate) warning Republicans to stop governing and start obstructing, and that the shutdown was totally a good idea. ---
**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, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17822 "2014-11-07T06:47:11Z")
The more moderate view is that the Republicans should try to get whatever concessions they can before impeachment proceedings actually begin. ---
**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, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17823 "2014-11-07T07:40:35Z")
Good old Billo, he can always be counted on for some nice, steaming stupid: on his show, out-loud-like, he said [that Republicans are afraid of black people](http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/6-right-wing-disasters-week-bill-oreilly-drops-accidental-truth-bomb). Tastiest part of this well-aged morsel? The person sitting there listening to him say it: Tavis Smiley. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17824 "2014-11-10T19:35:04Z")
[The vigilant watchdogs at Breitbart have got the goods](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/11/09/breitbarts-attack-on-obama-attorney-general-nom/201511) on Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch… > [@](#): > > According to a November 8 [Breitbart.com](http://Breitbart.com) article by Warner Todd Huston, “few are talking about” the fact nominee Lynch “was part of Bill Clinton’s Whitewater probe defense team in 1992.” Huston pointed to a March 1992 New York Times article that “reported that Lynch was one of the Clintons’ Whitewater defense attorneys as well as a ‘campaign aide.’” And in a November 9 article Huston’s colleague, [Breitbart.com](http://Breitbart.com) Senior Editor-at Large Joel Pollak wrote, “The connection to Whitewater ought to provide additional fodder for Republicans during Lynch’s confirmation hearings”… …or at least they’ve got the goods an _ **a** _ Loretta Lynch… > [@](#): > > [Breitbart.com](http://Breitbart.com) added corrections to the articles that confused the two attorneys, noting at bottom that “[t]he Loretta Lynch identified earlier as the Whitewater attorney was, in fact, a different attorney.” :smack: :smack: :rolleyes: Oh, well, there’s a bright side – the folks at Breitbart can run photos of the two Loretta Lynches as evidence that they, like Stephen Colbert, don’t see race. 😛 Obama ought to really tie them in knots by finding somebody named “John Smith” to nominate to something… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17825 "2014-11-10T19:56:26Z")
Better yet - see if he can find someone named “Ronald Reagan” and watch their heads explode. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17826 "2014-11-10T20:12:58Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > A [neat little roundup of conservative pundits](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservatives-freak-out-bipartisan-senate) warning Republicans to stop governing and start obstructing, and that the shutdown was totally a good idea. Wait, I’m confused, when did they \*start \*governing ? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17827 "2014-11-10T21:41:46Z")
[Scott Walker in Wisconsin wants to drug-test applicants for food stamps and jobless benefits.](http://www.salon.com/2014/11/10/scott_walker_champion_of_fiscal_restraint_wants_to_waste_money_on_drug_tests_for_food_stamps_and_jobless_benefits/) Even though when Florida tried that, the courts struck it down. What’s more: > [@](#): > > Florida actually spent more money conducting the drug tests than it saved by denying welfare benefits to drug users. Moreover, only 2.6 percent of welfare applicants tested positive for drugs, while Florida’s overall illegal drug use rate is an estimated 8 percent. This July, Tennessee began its own drug-testing program for welfare applicants; of 800 applicants, only one tested positive for illegal drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17828 "2014-11-10T21:44:13Z")
…but the drug testing company made lots of money, right? Mission accomplished! ---
**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 10, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17829 "2014-11-10T23:43:47Z")
The 97% who failed to fail the test did not have to pony up, so Florida was stuck with a big testing bill – and, of course, they would have to collect the testing fee from now very destitute persons. Much simpler to just charge everyone for their test, regardless of the result. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17830 "2014-11-11T00:25:40Z")
Ted Cruz (Jesus Roosevelt Christ the guy’s an asshole) tweets:[“Net Neutrality” is Obamacare for the Internet;](https://twitter.com/sentedcruz/status/531834493922189313) a. “Obamacare” is such an amazingly crap term for the ACA. Makes my blood boil just hearing it. and… b. sucking up to your campaign contributors much? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17831 "2014-11-11T00:36:23Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Ted Cruz (Jesus Roosevelt Christ the guy’s an asshole) tweets:[URL=“[x.com](https://twitter.com/sentedcruz/status/531834493922189313%22%5D%22Net) Neutrality” is Obamacare for the Internet… That there’s a man cut from Presidential timber. How I hope the GOP runs hard with an anti-Net Neutrality stance. Do it! Do it! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17832 "2014-11-11T01:06:55Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > That there’s a man cut from Presidential timber. Not so fast; we should test that hypothesis. Anybody got an axe? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17833 "2014-11-11T01:13:10Z")
Ted is gonna be the gift that keeps on giving. Mitch McConnell will age ten years in the next six months. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17834 "2014-11-11T01:17:00Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Ted is gonna be the gift that keeps on giving. Mitch McConnell will age ten years in the next six months. Let’s see, aging 10 years in six months means that by 2016 he’ll be 40 years older which would make him 112 or so. He’ll probably be dead of old age well before then. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17835 "2014-11-11T01:18:06Z")
Knowing Mitch, Ted’s more likely to come out with gray hair. McCOnnell’s a pretty cool customer. I kinda wanted him to go away in this election, but I have to admit, no one’s better at making deals with the Democrats on one hand while putting the extremists in their place on the other like Mitch. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17836 "2014-11-11T01:19:26Z")
Maybe Ted will teach him the trick of rising at night to feed on the blood of the living. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17837 "2014-11-11T01:20:48Z")
I thought that was Tom Delay’s shtick? On another board a poster once wrote, “I can imagine the invisible maggots that fall out of Tom Delay’s mouth every time he speaks.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17838 "2014-11-11T01:20:53Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Let’s see, aging 10 years in six months means that by 2016 he’ll be 40 years older which would make him 112 or so. He’ll probably be dead of old age well before then. That’s middle age for a tortoise. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17839 "2014-11-11T01:26:34Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > …while putting the extremists in their place… You mean like where they belong? He can do that? Shit, from now on, I’m calling him “Sir”! ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17840 "2014-11-11T01:27:53Z")
I mean simply by denying them any wins. He can’t fire anyone, of course. I just don’t think Ted Cruz is ever going to outmaneuver McConnell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=891) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=893)