# 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:** 921
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18402 "2015-01-13T17:15:52Z")
[Even Adolph Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/01/13/texas-congressman-randy-weber-says-obama-is-basically-worse-than-hitler/) ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18403 "2015-01-13T17:16:39Z")
‘Obama wasn’t support of enough of France’. I’m sure they are even more thrilled by this criticism of Obama. > **[Texas Rep. Randy Weber compares Obama to Hitler](https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/texas-congressman-randy-weber-hitler-tweet-114210)** > > He compared Obama to the Nazi dictator. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18404 "2015-01-13T18:03:14Z")
Maybe Obama didn’t want to rub shoulders with some of the other world leaders attending who regularly suppress freedom of expression in their own countries while hypocritically condemning the Charlie attack. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18405 "2015-01-13T18:13:56Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, that and: > > > [@](#): > > > > He had no further\*\* intercourse \*\*with Spirits, but lived upon the Total \*\*Abstinence \*\*Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! I know that people talked differently back then, but I cannot help but imagine Scrooge was fucking the ghosts ---
**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:** [January 13, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18406 "2015-01-13T18:30:23Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I know that people talked differently back then, but I cannot help but imagine Scrooge was fucking the ghosts Yes, but the Ghost of Christmas yet to come. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18407 "2015-01-13T18:44:15Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I know that people talked differently back then, but I cannot help but imagine Scrooge was fucking the ghosts It brings a whle new meaning to “Come and know me better.” > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yes, but the Ghost of Christmas yet to come. That’s why he was so quiet. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18408 "2015-01-13T18:44:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Glenn Beck: “[It’s Obama’s fault that that bridal store in Ohio had to close](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-blames-obama-closing-ohio-bridal-shop-after-ebola-scare).” That fucking nutcake still has a job? Beck, not Obama, wiseguys. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18409 "2015-01-14T00:01:02Z")
GOP is back to working on their minority outreach. [QUOTE=National Journal] In a New Year’s Eve Facebook post, Michigan RNC Committeeman Dave Agema republished an essay from American Renaissance, a white-supremacist newsletter. The article, which Agema said he found “very enlightening,” argued that “blacks are different by almost any measure to all other people. They cannot reason as well. They cannot communicate as well. They cannot control their impulses as well. They are a threat to all who cross their paths, black and non-black alike.” [/QUOTE] [http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/rnc-member-s-racist-facebook-post-threatens-winter-meeting-20150113](http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/rnc-member-s-racist-facebook-post-threatens-winter-meeting-20150113) ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18410 "2015-01-14T00:07:36Z")
Bryan Fischer accuses [Obama of saying that the journalists at Charlie Hebdo got what was coming to them](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-falsely-claims-president-obama-blamed-charlie-hebdo-victims-their-own-deaths). Right after Bryan Fischer said that the journalists at Charlie Hebdo got what was coming to them. [Conservative" “Christian” activist calls on Republican governors to call out the National Guard to prevent gay marriages](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/13/conservative-christian-demands-republican-governors-use-national-guard-to-stop-same-sex-marriages/). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18411 "2015-01-14T01:24:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Conservative" “Christian” activist calls on Republican governors to call out the National Guard to prevent gay marriages](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/13/conservative-christian-demands-republican-governors-use-national-guard-to-stop-same-sex-marriages/). This phrasing by the nutjob particularly tickles me: > [@The Nutjob](#): > > These Republican governors, by their own actions, are telling impressionable boys and girls “you can aspire to have a same-sex marriage for yourselves.” It’s the “aspire” that gets me. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18412 "2015-01-14T01:51:13Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > This phrasing by the nutjob particularly tickles me: > > It’s the “aspire” that gets me. Well if you go on the theory that most of the more wild-eyed opponents of gay marriage are so deep in the closet they don’t even know they are gay, it makes a kind of sense. Kind of. ---
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18413 "2015-01-14T01:59:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Conservative" “Christian” activist calls on Republican governors to call out the National Guard to prevent gay marriages](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/13/conservative-christian-demands-republican-governors-use-national-guard-to-stop-same-sex-marriages/). I call bullshit on the use of disbelief quotes. He’s a Christian nutbag, not a “Christian” nutbag. There’s a reason No True Scotsman is a fallacy. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18414 "2015-01-14T15:22:36Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > GOP is back to working on their minority outreach. > [http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/rnc-member-s-racist-facebook-post-threatens-winter-meeting-20150113](http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/rnc-member-s-racist-facebook-post-threatens-winter-meeting-20150113) Hm. Not the first time. > [@](#): > > Agema has a well-documented history of making inflammatory statements. He argued that President Obama is really a Muslim. He praised Vladimir Putin for Russia’s brutal stance on homosexuality. He blamed Satan for dividing the Republican Party. He even shared what he called an “eye opening” essay on Facebook that posed the question: “Have you ever seen a Muslim do anything that contributes positively to the American way of life?” ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18415 "2015-01-14T18:26:04Z")
Is this one kind of stupid? [Republicans in the House pass a law that would regulate government regulation out of existence](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/13/regulation-stealth-attack_n_6465900.html). ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18416 "2015-01-14T18:28:18Z")
Hardly. This bill is needed to introduce accountability to the regulatory process. Congress, even under the control of Democrats, never intended for the bureaucrats that no elected official has even heard of to write regulations that cost the economy billions of dollars. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18417 "2015-01-14T19:04:13Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Hardly. This bill is needed to introduce accountability to the regulatory process. Congress, even under the control of Democrats, never intended for the bureaucrats that no elected official has even heard of to write regulations that cost the economy billions of dollars. There are worse things than costing the economy billions of dollars. Unfortunately, conservatives gladly trade the health of our families and workers for a few dollars. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18418 "2015-01-14T19:14:36Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > … regulations that cost the economy billions of dollars. What does this even mean? Why the fuck would I care how much money “the economy” makes? ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18419 "2015-01-14T19:29:13Z")
Senator Ron Johnson: [Single mothers should find a man to marry to support them](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/14/more-republican-sexism/). He should know, since his personal fortune comes from marrying a rich woman with a daddy who was willing to finance him throughout his entire married life. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18420 "2015-01-14T19:45:38Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Hardly. This bill is needed to introduce accountability to the regulatory process. Congress, even under the control of Democrats, never intended for the bureaucrats that no elected official has even heard of to write regulations that cost the economy billions of dollars. There would be far fewer regulations needed if people weren’t such fucking assholes. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18421 "2015-01-14T19:47:40Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > There are worse things than costing the economy billions of dollars. Unfortunately, conservatives gladly trade the health of our families and workers for a few dollars. The government could still pass regulations, they’d just have to take more responsibility for them. I think we should all be able to agree that hugely expensive regulations shouldn’t just appear out of the bowels of the bureaucracy without any input from elected officials. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=920) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=922)