What word(s) best describes the Republicans in the Arizona Leg?

Dumb, thick-headed, tin-eared, short-sighted, politically inept, dim witted, impaired, intellectually challenged, dense, num-skulled and thick are just a few that quickly come to my mind. Seriously, what world do these guys come from?

There was this article from the East Valley Tribune about the recommended budget cuts by Republican controlled chairmen of the appropriations committees in the Arizona Legislature. Here is list:

The proposal also would make major -- and permanent -- cuts in funding for state universities, suspend funding for new land and buildings for community colleges and eliminate the state's general assistance program.

Other cuts suggested by the chairmen of the House and Senate appropriations committees include:

-- eliminating a new initiative to help teach math and science.

--rolling back an extra $15.3 million that lawmakers gave to public schools above
what a formula requires them to provide.

-- reducing eligibility for a program that provides health insurance for the children of the working poor.

If you get beyond how bad these cuts are for a growing state and how morally bankrupt it is to preserve tax-cuts while cutting health care for poor children, how politically dumb can one be?

If I could pick a group of items to run against in a political campaign the list above would be a dream. The only problem that I can see is that the list is so dumb that is almost hard believe.

Seriously, you cannot find better cuts than education and child health care? Wow...