# 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:** 981
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19602 "2015-02-27T17:58:11Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I’m simply pointing out that every side considers the other side to be bigoted. > If you don’t believe me, run a poll some day. > Ask 100 Republicans, “Who’s more bigoted, Republicans or Democrats?” > Ask 100 Democrats, “Who’s more bigoted, Republicans or Democrats?” When confronted with real bigotry, the best you can do is hide behind the imaginary “Both Sides Do It Equally Law”. I don’t give a flying fuck what excuses they may or may not give-either those Sacks of Senatorial Shits are bigots, or they are not. What say you? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19603 "2015-02-27T18:25:29Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Well, not quite. I’m sure they would make an exception to allow teachers to use the bible. But not that there Cath-lick bible. Nosiree! One written in English, like Jesus spoke himself! What, the Catholic Bible **is** in English? Neveryoumind. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19604 "2015-02-27T18:42:47Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > But not that there Cath-lick bible. Nosiree! One written in English, like Jesus spoke himself! > > What, the Catholic Bible **is** in English? Neveryoumind. Yeah, but they have that whole “Apocrypha” added. And they call some books by different names ---
**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 27, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19605 "2015-02-27T19:35:45Z")
Franklin Graham was [ranting about all of Obama’s Muslim advisers](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/franklin-graham-white-house-infiltrated-muslims-doesnt-know-who). When asked to name them, he couldn’t come up with any names, but _he knows they’re there!_ This is like McCarthy holding a list of names of Communists in the State Department. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19606 "2015-02-27T19:50:10Z")
Some more about the Tom Schweich story… The _Post-Dispatch_ has a little more detail in an article [here](http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/auditor-schweich-had-called-seeking-an-interview-just-before-his/article_879ddcd7-c997-5df3-bc61-39282c4f7434.html). It repeats what Tom Messenger said in his column yesterday about Schweich wanting to talk to Messenger about his belief that Republican leaders were spreading rumors about his religion. The new article adds that Schweich had also been in contact with the local Anti-Defamation League office about the issue. Schweich alleged that the whisper campaign was organized by state party chairman John Hancock. Hancock denies the allegations in an odd email you can read [here](http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article11343266.html) (scroll down). I say Hancock’s email is “odd” because he says he “until recently” believed Schweich was Jewish and that he may have mentioned it to others. But then he talks about having spent the “past several months” trying to dispel “untrue rumors” about _himself_. Naturally, in the course of the email, Hancock blames the liberal media for using this to smear the Republican party. Anyway, the good folks over at _The American Spectator_ are Just Asking Questions about the case. > [@Doofus at The American Spectator](#): > > Yet it does seem very odd that one would schedule an interview and then commit suicide only minutes later. Indeed, when I first read this story I couldn’t help but think of Alberto Nisman, the Argentinian prosecutor who authorities claimed committed suicide only hours before he was supposed to testify in front of the Argentinian Congress about President Fernandez de Kirchner’s role in covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Of course, the two situations aren’t entirely analogous. [Cite.](http://spectator.org/blog/61904/strange-sad-death-tom-schweich) “Not entirely analogous”? Ya _think?_ ---
**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 27, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19607 "2015-02-27T20:01:29Z")
Scott Walker’s [barebones budget for Wisconsin universities](http://jezebel.com/scott-walker-wants-colleges-to-stop-reporting-sexual-as-1688375293?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow) has a provision in it saying that colleges no longer need to report on-campus sexual assaults to the Department of Justice. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19608 "2015-02-27T20:12:10Z")
[Rick Perry; Syria uses chemical weapons on its citizens because Obama won’t secure the border with Mexico.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/02/27/3627942/rick-perry-weak-border-security-blame-assads-chemical-weapon-attacks/) ---
**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 27, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19609 "2015-02-27T20:23:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Rick Perry; Syria uses chemical weapons on its citizens because Obama won’t secure the border with Mexico.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/02/27/3627942/rick-perry-weak-border-security-blame-assads-chemical-weapon-attacks/) Ok that’s not even stupid, that’s veering straight into flat what. Like, maybe you can try to, but I don’t even. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19610 "2015-02-27T20:34:52Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > The fact that they would equate stripping away the dignity and rights of people to a birthday or holiday seems to me that this form of hatred is so ingrained into their pea-brains that they are absolutely immune to seeing just how evil it is. Yes. It is **exactly** that. Your evil is their good. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19611 "2015-02-27T21:04:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Rick Perry; Syria uses chemical weapons on its citizens because Obama won’t secure the border with Mexico.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/02/27/3627942/rick-perry-weak-border-security-blame-assads-chemical-weapon-attacks/) I can’t decide if this is dumber than Scott Walker’s claim that ISIS would respect him because of the way he stood up to public employee unions earlier in his term as governor. ---
**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 27, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19612 "2015-02-27T22:24:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Scott Walker’s [barebones budget for Wisconsin universities](http://jezebel.com/scott-walker-wants-colleges-to-stop-reporting-sexual-as-1688375293?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow) has a provision in it saying that colleges no longer need to report on-campus sexual assaults to the Department of Justice. Well, yeah. We just need those girls on campus to learn some morals and start dressing more modestly, so that those sexual assaults will stop happening. Burkas might be a good place to start. And summary execution for dishonoring the family ought to cut down on (reports of) assaults. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19613 "2015-02-27T22:28:56Z")
Republicans fail to get anything passed (including the bi-partisan Senate bill) to avoid a DHS shutdown. Way to go, Republicans! ---
**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 27, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19614 "2015-02-27T22:40:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, yeah. We just need those girls on campus to learn some morals and start dressing more modestly, so that those sexual assaults will stop happening. Burkas might be a good place to start. And summary execution for dishonoring the family ought to cut down on (reports of) assaults. All they need to do is to carry a gun with them at all times. ---
**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 27, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19615 "2015-02-27T22:47:18Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I can’t decide if this is dumber than Scott Walker’s claim that ISIS would respect him because of the way he stood up to public employee unions earlier in his term as governor. [On Walker’s equating protesters with ISIS](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/26/1367228/-Scott-Walker-s-ISIS-gaffe-causes-explosion-of-mocking-images?detail=email) Be sure to click on the poll at the bottom of the link. I’ll vote for the grannies. His quote: > [@](#): > > If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the globe. ---
**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 27, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19616 "2015-02-27T22:49:52Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Republicans fail to get anything passed (including the bi-partisan Senate bill) to avoid a DHS shutdown. Way to go, Republicans! Boehner can’t even get his own bill passed. Is he fucked sideways now? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19617 "2015-02-27T22:53:11Z")
Now? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19618 "2015-02-27T23:02:37Z")
Boehner hasn’t been able to control his caucus for years now. And no one else can either. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. ---
**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 27, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19619 "2015-02-27T23:05:24Z")
In what ways will a DHS shutdown be bad for (most of) us? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19620 "2015-02-27T23:07:27Z")
ISIS is going to come storming across the Canadian border any minute. ---
**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 27, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19621 "2015-02-27T23:10:08Z")
Into Montana? That will be fun to watch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=980) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=982)