Where are the adults in the Republican Party?

Again Arizona baffles even the most accepting of our better angels.  They forever push the intelligence of the public and no one can honestly tell us why.  It seems that just when you think the Republican Party could get no more dismissive or exclusive, they come up with something even more mind-blowing.

I speak about the article by Evan McMorris-Santoro of Talking Points Memo titled AZ Senate Passes Birther Bill With Overwhelming Majority.  The report says that “the Arizona state Senate passed Wednesday the revised version of a bill that would require candidates to prove their citizenship before they can appear on state ballots 20-9.  The original proposed, a candidate would have to produce a certified copy of a "long-form birth certificate" which would have to include the date and place of birth, the names of the hospital and any attending physician, and the signatures of any witnesses in attendance, but the revised has an amendment by Sen. Frank Antenori, R-Tucson, for alternative documents. Instead, a candidate could produce such documents as a baptismal or circumcision certificate or a hospital birth record.”

Many say that this bill ultimately was directed at President Barack Obama in his bid for a second term but with this amendment, one has to really ask them self if this was nothing more than a waste of time and taxpayers money.  They do not have the money to help with the poor and middle class organ transplants but they do to pass a worthless bill and may even have to pay more to defend it in court.  Maybe they don’t have to fear wasting taxpayer’s dollars because the article also mentioned that “lead House sponsor Rep. Carl Seel (R) met with Donald Trump and told local press Trump gave his bill "the thumbs up."  So maybe Trump will pay the court costs to defend it and save poor and middle class Arizona taxpayers from losing even more of the programs that they depend on.  This may all be a mute point if the article written by Nicole Belle of Crooks and Liars titled Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: AZ Birther Law Requires Candidates "To Describe Penis" is correct.  “A circumcision certificate -- a document given to the parents of a male Jewish child after his foreskin is snipped off during a circumcision ceremony -- is not a legal document but if you have one, under the amended bill, it's apparently enough to prove you're a U.S. citizen and your name can be permitted on the ballot in Arizona.