# 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:** 950
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18982 "2015-02-04T06:32:37Z")
Have you been stuck in a time loop, or something? That item made the threead over 500 posts ago (18436). (@ vivalostwages, above) ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18983 "2015-02-04T12:17:01Z")
Stipulated: going to Arizona for [an example](http://www.azcentral.com/story/laurieroberts/2015/02/03/arizona-prison-teacher-rape/22813107/) is like shooting fish in a barrel: > [@](#): > > The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is asking for dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a teacher who was brutally assaulted and raped after being left in an unguarded prison classroom with a convicted sex offender. > > The AG’s reasoning is essentially this: the woman knew she was in a prison, so what did she expect?.. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18984 "2015-02-04T12:24:56Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > Why are we trying to re-write history to make sure that no one inside the United States knows its history? Aren’t our kids just going to look like fucktards when they interact with people outside of our country who haven’t been indoctrinated North Korean-style? Who says they want our kids to “interact” with “people outside our country,” ever? > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [GOP gubernatorial candidate in Missouri: Liberals’ “sexual permissiveness” is to blame for child porn.](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/03/gop_gubernatorial_candidate_liberals_sexual_permissiveness_to_blame_for_child_porn/) Female candidate? Running on morals issues? I wonder if she’s even capable of being a serious contender for the nomination. I don’t expect so. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > But the picture changes as soon as you examine **why** they agree. You’re lapsing into progressive exceptionalism again, **BG.** ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18985 "2015-02-04T14:00:17Z")
Is this the right thread to talk about [herbal supplements](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/03/383524379/new-york-state-clamps-down-on-herbal-supplements?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150203)? > [@](#): > > DNA tests were run on supplements claiming to contain ginko bilboa, St. John’s wort, ginseng and echinacea … In four out of five cases, the tests showed that the pills contained nothing more than fillers such as asparagus, rice, wheat or houseplants. Apart from taking 20 years to prove the stupidity, I guess it is > [@](#): > > The US Food and Drug Administration requires companies to verify their products are safe and properly labelled. But a federal law was passed in 1994 which exempted herbal supplements from following the same stringent guidelines. > > The New York Times says the chief architect of that law was Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. The newspaper says Hatch “has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the industry and repeatedly intervened in Washington to quash proposed legislation that would toughen the rules.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18986 "2015-02-04T14:22:43Z")
Dunno, but I’ve used camomile tea to prevent murder. Brewed up a pot, drank it, and didn’t kill her skank ass! ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18987 "2015-02-04T14:42:38Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Good job, North Carolina! See? This is what happens whenever I leave. All right, North Carolina - You’re grounded until you can learn to elect sane people on your own. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18988 "2015-02-04T14:59:19Z")
[Indiana lawmaker proposes “Office of Marriage Promotion”.](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/03/indiana_lawmaker_proposes_office_of_marriage_promotion/) > [@](#): > > The Office of Marriage Promotion would be a state agency aimed at informing young people about research showing that children of married couples are healthier in many ways, Thompson said, while those born to single-parent households are more likely to live in poverty, commit crimes and drop out of school. […] > > Lawmakers such as Thompson say the rise in single parenting costs the public money, through funding free or reduced lunches at school, public housing, jails and unemployment support. > > “Taxpayers aren’t getting their money back,” he said, “because they’re paying for other people’s decisions and choices in reality.” > > He said traditional marriage promotion would be like anti-smoking campaigns, warning of the risks of single parenthood. It is strange, that this kind of mindset can still exist in the same society and culture as [polyamory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory) . . . ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18989 "2015-02-04T15:56:09Z")
Re: the hand washing thing … so I open a restaurant and I say, “I don’t care what the government says, you work here you’re damn well washing your hands.” Then I get sued by Typhoid Mary for making her not spread the plague and I’m out of business. Yay, free market! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18990 "2015-02-04T16:08:47Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > And how does he expect customers to work out that employees aren’t washing their hands? Perhaps when the local health department shuts the restaurant down after multiple cases of food poisoning? Sen. Tillis says they’d be expected to post a sign to that effect if they didn’t require employees to wash their hands. Of course, a few years ago, the GOP was saying that rich people and corporations should be allowed to contribute as much money to campaigns as they wanted, so long as the contributions were disclosed. Then after Citizens United opened the money floodgates, they decided that they weren’t in favor of disclosure after all. So I have an abiding expectation that if they could, they’d use the promise of a sign as a wedge to get rid of the handwashing reg, then they’d try to kill the sign, too. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18991 "2015-02-04T16:14:07Z")
What is it with the [pro-rape faction](http://www.sltrib.com/news/2136918-155/utah-lawmakers-debate-how-to-define) of the Republican Party? > [@](#): > > “If an individual has sex with their wife while she is unconscious … a prosecutor could then charge that spouse with rape, theoretically,” said Rep. Brian Greene, R-Pleasant Grove.“That makes sense in a first date scenario, but to me, not where people have a history of years of sexual activity.” ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18992 "2015-02-04T18:27:31Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Sen. Tillis says they’d be expected to post a sign to that effect if they didn’t require employees to wash their hands. Ye gods. Would _you_ want to eat in a restaurant with such a sign? In some fast-food places I’ve been in, it’s a much-needed reassurance. > [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > What is it with the [pro-rape faction](http://www.sltrib.com/news/2136918-155/utah-lawmakers-debate-how-to-define) of the Republican Party? Wouldn’t the wife wake up? Unless she’s… so drunk that she’s _unable_ to wake up. Is hubby so horny he can’t wait – or doesn’t think he should have to – until she’s conscious? _Whom do these guys think they’re helping??_ _Tell_ me. _Tell_ me this is ONE yahoo representing only his own views, or maybe his and his two ugly pals. Tell me he’s a fool and everyone around him knows he’s an idiot and ignores him when he speaks and these proposals die a quick death. Please. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18993 "2015-02-04T18:31:30Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > What is it with the [pro-rape faction](http://www.sltrib.com/news/2136918-155/utah-lawmakers-debate-how-to-define) of the Republican Party? Why?! Why can’t they just agree to a party-wide moratorium on ever using the “r” word in public?! It never helps them when they do. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18994 "2015-02-04T19:15:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Why?! Why can’t they just agree to a party-wide moratorium on ever using the “r” word in public?! It never helps them when they do. Yeah, but it helps \*us \*learn who the pathetic weenies are. We want to know this, so we can keep an eye on them and reduce the damage they can cause. Just imagine how hard it would be if they all operated in stealth mode! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18995 "2015-02-04T19:28:31Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Stipulated: going to Arizona for [an example](http://www.azcentral.com/story/laurieroberts/2015/02/03/arizona-prison-teacher-rape/22813107/) is like shooting fish in a barrel: God that story truly disgusts me. Bad enough that the scenario was allowed to happen, but the impulse to try to sweep the whole thing under the rug is horrifying and frightening. From the linked article: > [@](#): > > … on that day, because of a special event, she was sent to an unmonitored classroom, handed a radio and told to use it if there was any trouble, her lawsuit says. > > The test lasted 90 minutes during which not a single corrections officer checked on her or radioed to ask if everything was OK. > … it was tuned to a channel the guards didn’t even use. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18996 "2015-02-04T19:49:36Z")
February alone has two “r’s” in it, that is why it is Rape Month. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18997 "2015-02-04T20:43:07Z")
Hostess: Table for four? Patron: I need to see your bathroom signs first. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18998 "2015-02-04T22:19:24Z")
This is actually smart, but still makes me laugh: [Jeb Bush Acknowledges his last name could be a problem.](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/04/us-usa-politics-bush-jeb-idUSKBN0L81YC20150204) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18999 "2015-02-04T22:36:21Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Stipulated: going to Arizona for [an example](http://www.azcentral.com/story/laurieroberts/2015/02/03/arizona-prison-teacher-rape/22813107/) is like shooting fish in a barrel: (Above link is to AzCentral article, about teacher raped in class full of sex-offender convicts; associate AG moves to dismiss her lawsuit.) That same page also contains a link to this article, about state legislator (R-of course) sponsors bill to eliminate the state Open Meetings law. (Gasp! It even has bipartisan support! Who knew the stupid in Arizona was bipartisan?) [Legislator wants to legalize government secrecy](http://www.azcentral.com/story/laurieroberts/2015/02/04/bill-open-meetings-law-arizona/22864775/) ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19000 "2015-02-04T23:06:00Z")
she is from Snowflake, how precious ---
**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:** [February 5, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19001 "2015-02-05T01:49:17Z")
Aaron Shock, who has already spent over $100,000 to renovate his four Congressional offices, gets his Capitol Hill office renovated to look like the [interior of Downton Abbey](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congressman-aaron-schock-alleged-downton-abbey-office-haters/story?id=28731489). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=949) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=951)