# 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:** 974
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19462 "2015-02-23T18:56:42Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I don’t get the admiration for Giuliani. I used to admire his honesty, when after 9-11 he always wore a baseball cap that said “FONY” in big letters. But I later learned that what I thought was an “O” was actually a “D”. [http://www.southofboston.net/specialreports/sept11anniv/images/giuliani-hillary.jpg](http://www.southofboston.net/specialreports/sept11anniv/images/giuliani-hillary.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19463 "2015-02-23T19:23:02Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Meanwhile, [Wayne Barrett vivisects Giuliani](http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-rudy-giuliani-love-article-1.2122253). You can’t make this stuff up: > [@](#): > > “I would go anywhere, any place, anytime, and I wouldn’t give a damn what the President of the United States said, to defend my country. That’s a patriot. That’s a man who loves his people. That’s a man who fights for his people. Unlike our President.” > > Rudy may have forgotten the half-dozen deferments he won ducking the Vietnam War, even getting the federal judge he was clerking for to write a letter creating a special exemption for him. Plus, his father and five uncles all manage to dodge service in WWII. Those Giuliani men, they would go anywhere, anytime to stand up for America. ---
**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 23, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19464 "2015-02-23T19:36:47Z")
People are still talking about Ghouliani? Why? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19465 "2015-02-23T20:04:00Z")
They weren’t, until he started in talking shit about Obama. Now they are. Poor soul, his glory past, he hopes that if he just kicks up a spark, the blaze will spread across the country like mildfire. ---
**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 23, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19466 "2015-02-23T20:32:55Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > You can’t make this stuff up: > > Plus, his father and five uncles all manage to dodge service in WWII. Those Giuliani men, they would go anywhere, anytime to stand up for America. His father didn’t dodge the draft. He was ineligible for service because he was a convicted felon. ---
**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 23, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19467 "2015-02-23T20:35:00Z")
Lisa Murkowski, as chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, wants to cut the Department of the Interior’s budget because Obama wants to preserve the Alaska Refuge, and [she doesn’t give a damn if people lose their jobs over it](http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/02/23/3625872/murkowski-threatens-ranger-jobs-in-anwr-tiff/). I have to wonder how many federal employees there are in Alaska, and how many of them voted for her. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19468 "2015-02-23T21:04:50Z")
> [@](#): > > …rather than “some short-term job for a bureaucrat.”… Always safe to shit on the bureaucrats. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19469 "2015-02-23T21:15:19Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > His father didn’t dodge the draft. He was ineligible for service because he was a convicted felon. Wayne Barrett expounds: > [@](#): > > Giuliani went so far as to rebuke the President for not being “brought up the way you were and the way I was brought up through love of this country,” a bow no doubt to the parenting prowess of Harold Giuliani, who did time in Sing Sing for holding up a Harlem milkman and was the bat-wielding enforcer for the loan-sharking operation run out of a Brooklyn bar owned by Rudy’s uncle. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19470 "2015-02-23T21:17:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He isn’t a Harvard scientist, although FOX news and its ilk try to present him as such. He is a part time employee of the Smithsonian, working at a think tank partly funded by Harvard. His degrees are from USC. > > He also isn’t an astrophysicist, nor a climatologist. OK, but he’s associated with East Bumfuck Technical College, I bet! ---
**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:** [February 23, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19471 "2015-02-23T21:26:25Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Scott Walker, after years of insisting he has no interest in “right to work” legislation and “it is not on my agenda” and “would bring the whole firestorm back,” is now ready to sign such a bill.](http://www.thenation.com/blog/198705/scott-walker-says-hell-sign-alec-echoing-right-work-less-legislation) Meh. Wisconsin elected Walker. What do you expect? I feel sorry for the Democrats in Wisconsin, they fought the good fight I’m sure, but when Republicans get elected, they do Republican things. Going back on their word is EXACTLY a Republican thing. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19472 "2015-02-23T23:03:00Z")
Idaho Republican is unclear [how babby is formed](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html). ---
**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:** [February 23, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19473 "2015-02-23T23:09:42Z")
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore thinks same-sex marriage means gays can marry [one same sex spouse and one opposite sex spouse](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/roy-moore-ban-gay-marriage-keep-bisexuals-and-transgendered-marrying-multiple-people): > [@](#): > > “You’re taking any definition of a family away. When two bisexuals or two transgendered marry, how large is that family? Can they marry two persons, one of the same sex and one of the opposite sex? Then, you’ve got a family of four or how many?” ---
**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 23, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19474 "2015-02-23T23:15:58Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Idaho Republican is unclear [how babby is formed](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html). _Barbieri, who sits on the board of a crisis pregnancy center in northern Idaho …_ smh ---
**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 23, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19475 "2015-02-23T23:19:41Z")
No issue makes me want to rip my last remaining hair out more than Net Neutrality. Mostly, it is the way the Rs spin it as burdensome regulation. Now the Rs on the FCC panel want to make sure the policy has a chance to be properly ALECed before it can be put in place, by delaying the agency vote by five weeks and publishing the full text rather than just a summary. [Ajit Pai, R-evil](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/ajit-pai-net-neutrality-will-help-foreign-leaders-control-the-internet/) _“If in the United States we adopt regulations that assert more government control over how the Internet operates… it becomes a lot more difficult for us to go on the international stage and tell governments: ‘Look, we want you to keep your hands off the Internet.’ Even if the ideas aren’t completely identical, you can appreciate the optical difficult[y] in trying to make that case."_ No, you fuckhead, Net Neutrality is the **exact opposite** of controlling how the internet operates. Go crawl back into your series of tubes. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19476 "2015-02-23T23:47:55Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Idaho Republican is unclear [how babby is formed](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html). Who want’s to bet that somewhere, some Republican right now is asking, “Well if that’s so, how do Morning After pills work?” ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19477 "2015-02-24T00:00:32Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > People are still talking about Ghouliani? Why? > [@elucidator](#): > > They weren’t, until he started in talking shit about Obama. Now they are. Poor soul, his glory past, he hopes that if he just kicks up a spark, the blaze will spread across the country like mildfire. Imagine if he ever started co-publishing op-eds with Ann Coulter. It would be Brangelina all over again, and Judi [del]Aniston[/del] Nathan had better watch her back… ---
**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:** [February 24, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19478 "2015-02-24T00:02:08Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Meh. Wisconsin elected Walker. What do you expect? I feel sorry for the Democrats in Wisconsin, they fought the good fight I’m sure, but when Republicans get elected, they do Republican things. Going back on their word is EXACTLY a Republican thing. [Walker says he won’t push “right to work” and that it wouldn’t come to his desk.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oicjFbyAqiA) Barrett looks like a prophet here. But really, after four years of watching Walker prevaricate, it was an easy call. ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19479 "2015-02-24T00:04:19Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > You can’t make this stuff up: > > Plus, his father and five uncles all manage to dodge service in WWII. Those Giuliani men, they would go anywhere, anytime to stand up for America. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > His father didn’t dodge the draft. He was ineligible for service because he was a convicted felon. And went so far as to claim the alias he’d been convicted under, to make sure the draft board was aware of that. 😃 ---
**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:** [February 24, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19480 "2015-02-24T00:06:27Z")
**[Idaho lawmaker asks if woman can swallow camera for gynecological exam before medical abortion](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html)** > [@](#): > > Dr. Julie Madsen was testifying in opposition to the bill when Barbieri asked the question. Madsen replied that would be impossible because swallowed pills do not end up in the vagina. > > “Fascinating. That makes sense,” Barbieri said, amid the crowd’s laughter. Of course he’s a GOPer. (And certainly not a scientist) ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19481 "2015-02-24T00:06:39Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Meh. Wisconsin elected Walker. What do you expect? Good point. When I was growing up, Wisconsin was known for basically two things; cheese and Joe McCarthy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=973) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=975)