# 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:** 943
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18842 "2015-01-28T22:10:50Z")
I hope in the upcoming Republican primaries each candidate will be pinned down on whether they favor restricting access to porn on the internet. If they say no, the RW evangelicals will flip out. If they say yes they will be on record telling Americans that they favor restricting their access to porn. Lose/lose. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18843 "2015-01-28T22:56:26Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I hope in the upcoming Republican primaries each candidate will be pinned down on whether they favor restricting access to porn on the internet. > If they say no, the RW evangelicals will flip out. If they say yes they will be on record telling Americans that they favor restricting their access to porn. > > Lose/lose. They could always take the Jesus Weasel: “Render unto Shawna Lenee what is Shawna Lenee’s, and render unto God what is God’s!” (Which one you cum for is up to you.) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18844 "2015-01-29T01:04:52Z")
**Stupid Derplahoman Idea of the Day**. You can just tell the next legislative session in Oklahoma City is warming up. Reprsentative Josh Cockroft has introduced HRJ 1006 that will change State Supreme Court justices from selection by a committee and appointment by the Gov. to a system of state wide election. Key points he brought up are that the judges must be accountable to the electorate (we see how well the will of the majority works nationwide) and the Judicial branch was never intended to be a co-equal branch nor independent just like the founding fathers designed it. Great - we don’t have enough politics, campaigning, PACs, pandering to donors already. Also, poor Josh can’t read either the Oklahoma constitution - Article 4; the US constitution; and he certainly has never read the Federalist Papers #78 by Hamilton. If he gets his way and the Justices are elected - Atty. Gen. Scott Pruitt will finally win some cases at the state level before being smacked down at the US Supreme Court. Pity Oklahoma, this clown ran unopposed last election. > **[Maybe Josh Cockroft should stick with plagiarism... - The Lost Ogle](https://thelostogle.com/2015/01/28/maybe-josh-cockroft-should-stick-with-plagiarism)** > > Plagiarizing, arts-hating, Batman fanboy Josh Cockroft is up to his old tricks. Lost in the sea of bigoted legislation that’s been recently proposed by his House colleagues, Josh has recently introduced House Joint Resolution 1006. If passed by... ---
**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:** [January 29, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18845 "2015-01-29T04:16:59Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Sergeant Preston, now _there_ was a husky fucker… My first dog was named King after Sergeant Preston’s lead dog. You can insult me. You can insult my mother. But if you ever again insult my dog or his namesake it will be shotguns at dawn, and I’ll show up early. :mad: > [@CalMeacham](#): > > Shows what YOU know.\* > > **Blizzards[sup]TM[/sup]** are from Dairy Queen. > > …\*or possibly what you think HE knows I think it’s safe to assume that Rush knows where he can get several hundred calories of ice creme bliss and not get out of his car. And he knows where to find a DQ with a driveup because it’s worth it to drive a few extra miles so you don’t have to walk. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18846 "2015-01-29T04:58:07Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > You’d think having a view like that every time you so much as lifted your eyes would instill some kind of sense of awe and introspection at humanity’s place in the world. Apparently not… They’re too busy searching out the specks in each other’s eyes to lift their eyes to the sky. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18847 "2015-01-29T05:28:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Shows what YOU know.\* > **Blizzards[sup]TM[/sup]** are from Dairy Queen. > > \*or possibly what you think HE knows > [@dropzone](#): > > I think it’s safe to assume that Rush knows where he can get several hundred calories of ice creme bliss and not get out of his car. And he knows where to find a DQ with a driveup because it’s worth it to drive a few extra miles so you don’t have to walk. Yeah, I overworked that joke. Then again, Rusty _is_ pretty detached from the common people… ---
**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:** [January 29, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18848 "2015-01-29T06:16:41Z")
Senator Inhofe and his brute squad. [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/22/3614235/seriously-we-are-all-doomed/](http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/22/3614235/seriously-we-are-all-doomed/) > [@](#): > > Wednesday was a big day for Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK). In the morning, he officially took the gavel as chairman of the Senate’s Environment Committee. In the afternoon, he took the Senate floor for a long speech about how human-caused climate change is fake. > > Here’s the video: > > In sum, the speech has everything. References to the oft-debunked “ClimateGate” stolen e-mail “scandal”, a poster of a Time Magazine cover from 1974 claiming an ice age is coming, and multiple references to former Vice President Al Gore. It has a mention of a survey of weather-casters who think global warming is caused by natural variation, but does not mention that weather-casters are not climate scientists. It even includes the claim that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “started” the whole idea that climate change is happening, even though the idea was conceived about 200 years ago. > > The video above actually begins a couple minutes in to Inhofe’s speech, with a quote from Richard Lindzen, a former MIT professor and one of the most-cited voices of scientists who think global warming is fake. Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist, has often been characterized as having contrarian scientific opinions. He has also said that the evidence that cigarettes cause lung cancer is not “so strong that one should rule that any questions were out of order.” > [@](#): > > Don’t expect this speech to be the end of climate denial in the Senate. Indeed, Inhofe ended his speech by promising more of it, citing his new position as head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. > > “Now I’m back in that position so we’ll have a chance to have hearings, and Mr. President, we’re going to have hearings with prominent scientists to come in and talk about this thing,” he said. “We’ll be there to be the truth-squad.” “Brute Squad” you mean senator. You know, when you see how republicans assigned the chairmanships and that they also gave Ted Cruz control over NASA it is really a stretch to still believe that there is sanity in the republican party. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18849 "2015-01-29T12:29:30Z")
It’s not insanity at all as long as you keep in mind that the secondary goal of the GOP, right behind delivering as much of the nation’s economy as possible to their .01% supporters, is fucking with liberals’ minds. It should be obvious by now that there’s a whole lot of reflexive “the liberals will HATE this!” glee behind most of their moves. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18850 "2015-01-29T15:18:12Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It’s not insanity at all as long as you keep in mind that the secondary goal of the GOP, right behind delivering as much of the nation’s economy as possible to their .01% supporters, is fucking with liberals’ minds. It should be obvious by now that there’s a whole lot of reflexive “the liberals will HATE this!” glee behind most of their moves. Talk about cutting off your nose . . . ---
**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 29, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18851 "2015-01-29T18:43:58Z")
[Texas state representative requires Muslims to pledge allegiance to the US and renounce Islamic terrorism before they’re allowed into her capitol office.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/29/1360940/-Texas-representative-tells-staff-to-ask-visiting-Muslims-to-pledge-allegiance?detail=facebook) I guess nobody else has to pass that test. But I wonder if her staffers ask each visitor if they’re Muslim before they’re allowed in the door. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18852 "2015-01-29T18:56:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Texas state representative requires Muslims to pledge allegiance to the US and renounce Islamic terrorism before they’re allowed into her capitol office.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/29/1360940/-Texas-representative-tells-staff-to-ask-visiting-Muslims-to-pledge-allegiance?detail=facebook) > > I guess nobody else has to pass that test. But I wonder if her staffers ask each visitor if they’re Muslim before they’re allowed in the door. I have this vision: Islamic extremist suicide bomber enters the office (with fuses lit, which lends a Wile E. Coyote vibe to the scenario) and is stopped by a staffer who asks him to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. “Aw, nuts…” says the bomber, and beats a hasty retreat. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18853 "2015-01-29T19:02:05Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Mike Huckabee rebukes the “trashy” Fox News women (and only the women) for swearing (not on-air, just around the office).](http://www.salon.com/2015/01/28/huckabees_hateful_true_colors_why_his_dig_about_foxs_trashy_women_is_so_revealing/) [Megyn Kelly schools Mike Huckabee.](http://www.salon.com/2015/01/29/megyn_kelly_schools_mike_huckabee_about_the_reality_of_womens_behavior_were_drinking_were_smoking_were_having_premarital_sex_with_birth_control/) > [@](#): > > Huckabee clarified that all of his interactions with women at Fox News have been “lovely” and “delightful,” and that he was really speaking about a “culture of crude” in Washington, D.C., New York and Hollywood. > > “Well, I do have news for you before I let you go,” said Kelly, after allowing Huckabee to defend his remarks. “We are not only swearing. We’re drinking, we’re smoking, we’re having premarital sex with birth control before we go to work, and sometimes boss around a bunch of men.” > > Huckabee responded, “Oh, I just don’t want to hear that.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18854 "2015-01-29T19:13:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Sarah Palin attacks Bill O’Reilly as a “quasi-conservative.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/01/28/this_is_war_sarah_palin_slams_quasi_conservative_oreilly_for_not_taking_her_fake_2016_candidacy_seriously/) [Bill-O responds.](http://www.salon.com/2015/01/29/oreilly_palin_feud_continues_if_no_offense_is_intended_don%e2%80%99t_take_offense/) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18855 "2015-01-29T19:27:34Z")
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Steel Cage Death Match! The Killa from Wasilla and the Loofah Lummox! (Morning line is nine to one on The Malign Sarah). ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18856 "2015-01-29T20:49:14Z")
I find Megyn Kelly bossing me around to be a, umm… \*provocative \*idea. So many on that station are like Bond villains; beautiful but evil. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18857 "2015-01-29T21:39:52Z")
Bill OReilly vs Sarah Palin Mike Huckabee vs Megyn Kelly This is behavior we need to encourage. Who can we get to say something stupid about Rush? ---
**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 29, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18858 "2015-01-29T22:01:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Sarah Palin attacks Bill O’Reilly as a “quasi-conservative.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/01/28/this_is_war_sarah_palin_slams_quasi_conservative_oreilly_for_not_taking_her_fake_2016_candidacy_seriously/) Just reading her blather makes my brain explode. If there was ever a media whore, she’s it. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18859 "2015-01-29T22:01:49Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > A [shot](https://farfromthesilverscreen.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/wasilla-032009-02-1024.jpg) of downtown Wasilla and the view therefrom. Doesn’t seem right, somehow. July 4th? ---
**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:** [January 29, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18860 "2015-01-29T22:05:26Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Bill OReilly vs Sarah Palin > Mike Huckabee vs Megyn Kelly If both survive the _lirpa_… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18861 "2015-01-29T23:56:51Z")
Palin is pretty much the same as she’s always been. The difference in perception is also unchanged among the thinking classes. No, something else has changed … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=942) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=944)