# 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:** 975
**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, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19482 "2015-02-24T00:08:43Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Idaho Republican is unclear [how babby is formed](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html). And also _where_, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19483 "2015-02-24T01:20:51Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Idaho Republican is unclear [how babby is formed](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html). A side question from that article: It says that “one of the halted legislations was proposed by a 14-year-old girl to designate the Idaho Giant Salamander as the official state amphibian”. WHY? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19484 "2015-02-24T01:32:28Z")
I think a more salient question would be what states need with official amphibians. Or do with them, for that matter. I mean, don’t they already have local politicians for all their amphibian needs ? (_badum, tish_) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19485 "2015-02-24T01:35:53Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > A side question from that article: It says that “one of the halted legislations was proposed by a 14-year-old girl to designate the Idaho Giant Salamander as the official state amphibian”. WHY? Probably because one of the Republicans on the committee was hoping that HE could be the official state amphibian. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19486 "2015-02-24T01:47:01Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Now he makes a living trying to gin up anti-Muslim hysteria and blowing racial dog whistles about Obama. Not just that. He’s also paid to plug an identity theft system of ill repute. [http://www.bbb.org/phoenix/business-reviews/identity-theft-protection-and-prevention-services/lifelock-inc-in-tempe-az-83005924/customer-reviews/](http://www.bbb.org/phoenix/business-reviews/identity-theft-protection-and-prevention-services/lifelock-inc-in-tempe-az-83005924/customer-reviews/) ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19487 "2015-02-24T03:36:28Z")
> [@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) There is no reality in which Walker wouldn’t sign the legislation if it hits his desk - but he apparently didn’t expect it to get there. Throwing up a little in my mouth from defending him, but from what I’ve read I don’t think Walker pushed this - the Senate majority leader realized he suddenly had the votes, and is pushing it through. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19488 "2015-02-24T03:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Not just that. He’s also paid to plug an identity theft system of ill repute . Stay out of them virtual whorehouses, boy, you’ll catch a computer virus and your hard drive will rot right off! ---
**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:** [February 24, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19489 "2015-02-24T14:41:59Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > A side question from that article: It says that “one of the halted legislations was proposed by a 14-year-old girl to designate the Idaho Giant Salamander as the official state amphibian”. WHY? If I recall rightly it’s because the proposed text of the bill says something about evolution, and that makes Jesus cry. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19490 "2015-02-24T16:11:44Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Who want’s to bet that somewhere, some Republican right now is asking, > > “Well if that’s so, how do Morning After pills work?” Well, they don’t, actually, they’re just expensive placebos, you see. That bill you were drafting to ban them? Don’t bother, waste of time. ---
**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, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19491 "2015-02-24T17:08:34Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > **[Idaho lawmaker asks if woman can swallow camera for gynecological exam before medical abortion](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html)** > > Of course he’s a GOPer. (And certainly not a scientist) The video is funny: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUse5tIMoNU) Bill Cosby, in an old stand up routine, described how the baby must be bored and how he thought of asking his wife to swallow a ball for the kid to play with. At least we know Cosby was trying to be funny. ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19492 "2015-02-24T18:26:05Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > 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. All over twitter are right wing idealogues making it sound like the government is trying for MORE regulation in net neutrality. It’s insane! And tons of folks saying “It’s a power grab by Obummer!” Really, all you need to amplify the right wing echo chamber is a bunch of gullible dopes, who won’t do any real research into legislation, and will, instead, parrot ALEC talking points. ---
**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 24, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19493 "2015-02-24T19:01:32Z")
Tennessee State Rep Susan Lynn has introduced a bill before the state legislature that would [instruct the state attorney general to “report to the department of justice that a no-go zone exists within political subdivisions of the state” and to then “take all necessary steps to eliminate the no-go zone to enforce compliance with state and federal law.”](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/state-legislator-bravely-moves-eliminate-no-go-zones-tennessee) Because no-go zones are such a major problem in Tennessee. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19494 "2015-02-24T19:02:56Z")
> [@](#): > > …nstead, parrot ALEC talking points. A parrot would do a better job of it. If not too busy pining. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19495 "2015-02-24T19:11:03Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Idaho Republican is unclear [how babby is formed](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html). One could insert a minicamera in the vagina, I suppose . . . but that probably would be more complicated than swallowing a pill that came in the mail, and probably would require a doctor or nurse to do it right. Also, I’ve never heard of gynecologists doing that – do they ever? They mainly rely on ultrasound scans, don’t they? And it seems to me that to get an up-close look at the state of a pregnancy you would need to insert a camera, at the end of a cable, through the cervix and into the uterus – which could be done, but might be dangerous to the fetus, for all I know. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19496 "2015-02-24T19:12:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tennessee State Rep Susan Lynn has introduced a bill before the state legislature that would [instruct the state attorney general to “report to the department of justice that a no-go zone exists within political subdivisions of the state” and to then “take all necessary steps to eliminate the no-go zone to enforce compliance with state and federal law.”](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/state-legislator-bravely-moves-eliminate-no-go-zones-tennessee) > Because no-go zones are such a major problem in Tennessee. They aah if you a Revenooer! ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19497 "2015-02-24T19:14:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > They aah if you a Revenooer! I miss reading Snuffy Smith. ---
**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 24, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19498 "2015-02-24T20:20:23Z")
Idaho is going for a bumper crop of crazy this year. A state representative (Christy Perry (R)) thinks that “a proposed ban on faith-healing could [violate the religious rights of her constituents](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/idaho-republican-backs-faith-healer-parents-if-i-want-to-let-my-child-be-with-god-why-is-that-wrong/)”. Mind you, this ban is for limiting a faith-based exemption for CHILD medical care. But Perry says of the parents, > [@](#): > > “They are comforted by the fact that they know their child is in heaven,” Perry said. “If I want to let my child be with God, why is that wrong?” So yeah. That’s a thing. ---
**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 24, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19499 "2015-02-24T20:24:23Z")
Ron Paul: [Black Caucus is opposed to war because they want money for food stamps.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ron-paul-congressional-black-caucus-opposes-war-because-they-want-food-stamps/) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19500 "2015-02-24T20:34:42Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > **[Idaho lawmaker asks if woman can swallow camera for gynecological exam before medical abortion](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html)** > > Of course he’s a GOPer. (And certainly not a scientist) As funny as this is, and as rewarding it is to point out Republican’s misunderstanding of science, I think its pretty clear from the context that the question was meant rhetorically, in an attempt discredit the analogy between the abortion drug and colonoscopy that the witness was making. > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > A side question from that article: It says that “one of the halted legislations was proposed by a 14-year-old girl to designate the Idaho Giant Salamander as the official state amphibian”. WHY? I think the worry is that if they made a statement in favor of the salamander someone might come around and demand that they try to [someone might come around and demand that they do something to prevent it going extinct](http://news.yahoo.com/idaho-salamander-bill-squashed-over-federal-overreach-fears-205038856.html). ---
**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 24, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19501 "2015-02-24T20:38:16Z")
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