# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/161 "2009-05-09T18:10:31Z")
The repubs are right. She should be impeached. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/162 "2009-05-09T21:04:55Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > If you were on an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Osama bin Laden, and a soldier with two bullets in his weapon, I’m guessing that makes you strangled. 😉 Since strangling is a very personal and difficult way to kill someone, I think Pelosi actually is the lesser of those evils. Right? Pelosi is no hero of mine, don’t get me wrong, and I don’t find the joke offensive. But there’s something broken in you if you find that genuinely funny. You’re not a psycho or anything, you just don’t understand what is funny about humor and why- if it has the rhythm and pattern of a joke, and the target is correct, you will laugh reflexively. That still doesn’t make it funny. Edit- I mean the “royal” you here, and not dropzone. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/163 "2009-05-09T21:16:27Z")
Well, I’m sure next time **Der Trihs** shares with us his views of the military, everyone defending Feherty will defend him as well. ETA: I’m going to retract this comment. I have a wicked hangover. It was my birthday last night. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/164 "2009-05-09T23:03:19Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Dijon mustard? _Dijon_? > > Isn’t that… you know, _ **French** _? Frencher than French’s? How could \*that \*be? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/165 "2009-05-10T04:36:18Z")
> [@stolichnaya](#): > > Edit- I mean the “royal” you here, and not dropzone. No prob; didn’t even notice it. I’m not funny and realize it, though it doesn’t stop me from trying. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/166 "2009-05-10T04:37:41Z")
> [@BrightNShiny](#): > > ETA: I’m going to retract this comment. I have a wicked hangover. It was my birthday last night. The “cure” is a hair from the dog that bit ya, bro. Have one on me. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/167 "2009-05-10T09:54:39Z")
Heads up on the possible next Stupid Republican Attack of the Day\*: grumblings about President Obama’s asking for a screening of the new **Star Trek** movie. So far (as far as I know) the whining has only appeared at RedState (which is a slightly more intelligent brand of stupid, which isn’t saying much, because they’re all a bunch of loonballs too, but compared to the freepers they’re geniuses), and I’m not going to link to RedState, so I’ll link to [the post at DU](http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5627446) that referenced it. I realize that President Obama is the first president to ever screen movies at the White House (well, other than Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush) but really, it’s not that big a deal. He is a Star Trek fan, and it’s not like he can go down to the local multiplex to catch it without the Secret Service causing a big stir, which would get complained about too. Hey, I saw it, it’s a fantastic movie. I can’t blame President Obama for wanting to see it too. \*that is, if President Obama’s [funny and surprisingly pointed barbs](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/09/full-video-obamas-white-h_n_201264.html) made at the White House Correspondents Dinner don’t cause a bunch of heads to explode first. By the time his jokes get hashed out and gnashed over (with some vitriol thrown [Wanda Sykes’](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/09/wanda-sykes-video-of-whit_n_201280.html) way too), the screening might be forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/168 "2009-05-10T12:27:21Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Heads up on the possible next Stupid Republican Attack of the Day\*: grumblings about President Obama’s asking for a screening of the new **Star Trek** movie. So far (as far as I know) the whining has only appeared at RedState (which is a slightly more intelligent brand of stupid, which isn’t saying much, because they’re all a bunch of loonballs too, but compared to the freepers they’re geniuses), and I’m not going to link to RedState, so I’ll link to [the post at DU](http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5627446) that referenced it. Prime Directive? Aliens working together? A Russian on the bridge? Interracial kisses? The episode where one guy is half-black and half-white and the other is half-white and half-black? Hippie-dippie shit if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/169 "2009-05-10T13:23:28Z")
I _reach_ that, brother! ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/170 "2009-05-10T13:45:46Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I _reach_ that, brother! Obviously, a man who is a fan of this “Science Fictional Entertainment” can’t be counted on to maintain his grip on reality. Next thing you know he’ll be playing Dragons and Dungeons and summoning demons in the White House\*. -Joe \*Unless he IS actually from Hell, as some have speculated, in which case that would probably be redundant. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/171 "2009-05-12T01:41:08Z")
**Stupid Republican Meme of the Day** (which others will probably pick up once they stop whining about Wanda Sykes) [Started by](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/11/pete-sessions-obama-hurti_n_201562.html) duly elected loonball Pete “We could learn a lot from the Taliban insurgency!” Sessions: > [@](#): > > Sessions told the Times that Obama’s plan is to “diminish employment and diminish stock prices.” By doing so, Obama “intended to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it” as part of a “divide and conquer” strategy to consolidate power. And now [picked up](http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/sessions-limbaugh-unemployment/) by the Leader of the Republican Party himself, Rush Limbaugh: > [@](#): > > LIMBAUGH: As the economy performs worse than expected, the deficit for the 2010 budget year beginning in October will worsen by $87 billion to $1.3 trillion. The deterioration reflects lower tax revenues and higher costs for bank failures, unemployment benefits and food stamps. But in the Oval Office of the White House none of this is a problem. This is the objective. The objective is unemployment. The objective is more food stamp benefits. The objective is more unemployment benefits. The objective is an expanding welfare state. And the objective is to take the nation’s wealth and return to it to the nation’s quote, “rightful owners.” Think reparations. Think forced reparations here if you want to understand what actually is going on. So, it’s all a Grand Plan by President Obama! Plunge the country into Darkness, give all the white people’s money to the blacks, then Take Over (for life, I assume)! Brilliant! Koo koo Koo koo Koo koo. It’s nice to know I was wrong about the Star Trek screening though. Damn, I bet RedState is mad they couldn’t get that one going. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/172 "2009-05-12T14:29:24Z")
I for one welcome our Black Muslim Socialist Fascist Trekkie overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/173 "2009-05-12T15:54:22Z")
Ditto! ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/174 "2009-05-12T17:18:11Z")
Were they always this crazy? Or was I just not paying attention? ---
**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:** [May 12, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/175 "2009-05-12T18:20:30Z")
> [@stolichnaya](#): > > Were they always this crazy? Or was I just not paying attention? The latter. In the past, though, they were more comfortable crazies, and generally spoke with well-modualted voices, giving the appearance of sanity. Now they’re getting desperate and more shrill, and hence they _sound_ crazier. ---
**Author:** ![davidw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/176 "2009-05-13T14:17:00Z")
Has anyone mentioned the [special RNC meeting](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22445.html) to approve a resolution to rebrand the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Socialist Party?” When even Michael Steele can see that your idea is stupid, it’s really stupid. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/177 "2009-05-13T14:28:52Z")
> [@davidw](#): > > Has anyone mentioned the [special RNC meeting](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22445.html) to approve a resolution to rebrand the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Socialist Party?” When even Michael Steele can see that your idea is stupid, it’s really stupid. That is the Stupid Republican Idea of the Century. Actually, it might just be the Stupid Idea of the Century. I might write to the DNC and suggest that they pass a resolution redesignating the Republican Party as the Republican Douchebag Party. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/178 "2009-05-13T14:29:01Z")
Wow. That’s monumentally stupid. Why don’t they just go ahead and rebrand the Democratic Party as the Democratic Socialist Nanny-Nanny Boo-Boo We Don’t Like You You Big Poopy-Heads Party while they’re at it. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/179 "2009-05-13T14:47:06Z")
This story has been floating around for a few weeks, so it doesn’t really count as _today’s_ stupid idea. But it really is a primo stupid idea. Calling a special meeting for the specific purpose of trashing the other party, and apparently with nothing else on the agenda. I must say this is one of my favorite ongoing threads. The Republicans are entertaining me every single day, and often exceeding their daily quota of one stupid idea. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/180 "2009-05-13T14:50:44Z")
For historical reference, [John Stuart Mill](http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?STORY_ID=12599247) once labeled the Tories “The Stupid Party”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=10)