Stupid Republican idea of the day

The BBQ Pit
22522

No, he’s just a shameless panderer. He doesn’t actually believe any of this nonsense; he just knows he can make a buck and derive some power and influence from it.

22523

One thing that is sure to piss me off is going after the Supreme Court in such a way that you are actually proposing constitutional remedies. The Supreme Court itself is a constitutional remedy and our primary bulwark against overreaching government.

22524

Oh, but that’s just earthly lives. We’re talking about ETERNAL SOULS BURNING IN HELLFIRE. That’s serious business!

22525

I’m often cold, so I’m rather looking forward to some toasty warmth.

22526

I love it that they just can’t take “Yes” for an answer.

22527

Nah, she’ll grow up to be a porn star. The name of her first movie? Fucking Travesty.

22528

Funny he should mention that.

After the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in our state (Hiya, rest of the country! Glad you could join us!), the knucklehead conservatives led by Bob VanderPlaaaaaaaats and his Family Leader group whipped the state into a frenzy about judicial overreach and “making laws from the bench.” Yes, we’ve heard all this before. Anyway, in Iowa, judges do stand for re-election. VanderPutz and his gang got enough outrage going to defeat the three Supremes on the ballot in 2010.

Interestingly enough, in elections since then, the “traditional marriage” group hasn’t been able to muster nearly as much umbrage. No Supreme Court justices have been voted off the bench since then.

So, Ted … the tide is against you at the ballot box, too. It would be nice if Texas voters would have the gumption to vote off sniveling panderers like Cruz (and I say that knowing voters in my state keep re-electing Steve King and sent Hog Castratin’ Joni Ernst to the Senate, so …)

22529

Today is a day for celebratory drinking: Scalia’s Tears. People say they are delicious!

22530

That’s nothing, Bobby Jindal says we should abolish the supreme court and save some money.

22531

Have any of these morons ever taken a civics class?

22532

Taken? Possibly.* Passed*?

22533

Marcus Bachmann has filed for divorce from Michelle.

22534

That’s a fake news site.

22535

Dammit.

22536

Besides, isn’t this thread for stupid Republican ideas? Because that, if true, would have been pretty much the smartest thing that Marcus has ever done! :smiley:

22537

I don’t want to abolish the Court altogether, but given the present court composition, some wasted money could be saved by putting eight of the justices on furlough and letting Anthony Kennedy make all the decisions unilaterally; his vote is already on the winning side in almost every single case, no?

It is an instructive but cheerless fact that almost every SCOTUS decision these days is 5-4 with the same actors on each side: humanists versus bloated-amygdala corporate whores. The main exceptions are when Roberts, seeing that the Republiopaths are going to lose 5-4 anyway, makes it 6-3 so that his grandchildren think he’s less of a despicable hack.

Of course in the case of the Obamacare suit, the wise Republiopaths wanted the rational side to win. A finding against Obamacare would have caused so much disruption that even moronic voters would have finally woken up to the malice of Republiopathology.

22538

There you go, dismissing and disparaging your ideological opposition. That sort of thing comes in for a lot of stern criticism around here. No, really.

22539

Actually, there are lots of cases that aren’t about those particular ideological differences, and don’t split quite that way.

22540

Damn! And I bought that story hook, line and sinker.

22541

Cite? Obviously some decisions are 7-2, etc. but on the close votes the correlations are rather consistent and strong.

Some years ago at SDMB, I posted a statistical summary of all 5-4 votes over a period of a decade or so, demonstrating the correlations. Do you have new statistics showing the opposite, or was yours just a fanciful post?