It never ends....the stupidity, cowardice, and hypocrisy of the GOP, especially of those elected to public office.

As far as the voters who keep casting their votes for these twits and gits, it proves you can fool some of the people all of the time into shooting themselves in the foot and voting against their own interests...that of the common good and general welfare.

On the federal level, a classic example from Josh Marshall at TPM Editors Blog: ".... A week ago GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling (TX) was telling Chris Matthews about the glories of the House Republicans' draft 2010 budget, filled with plans to cut and privatize Social Security and abolish Medicare. But as news began to spread this week about the draft plan prepared by chief House Republican budgeteer Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the Republican leadership, especially Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) started acting like they barely knew anything about it.

"That brings us up to today, when Republicans sent Rep. Hensarling to give the response to the president's Saturday radio address. So what he say about the draft Ryan plan?

"Not much. Hensarling for some reason used the whole time to talk about House Republicans' 2009 budget. In other words, an outline plan from last year about the year that already happened and was actually panned at the time for not including any details and even including a lot of fake charts."   

And this from Think Progress about the idiotic hypocrite who still sits in the governor's office in South Carolina: "South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) waged a high-profile war against the economic stimulus package last spring, claiming that accepting the $700 million for which his state was eligible would lead to “a thing called slavery.” Even as his state’s unemployment rate climbed above the national average, Sanford maintained his partisan and politically motivated refusal to take the funds.

"But yesterday, Sanford flew to Washington to demand $300 million in stimulus money for education,

"Sanford’s trip — which did not appear on his official calendar — is especially hypocritical because the majority of stimulus money destined for South Carolina was to fund education and save thousands of teachers’ jobs. Yet, in March, Sanford told Fox News host Glenn Beck that taking the money would be akin to “fiscal child abuse.”

Also courtesy of Think Progress, this about the state of Virginia climate ignorant GOP mocking the massive, history making snowstorm hitting their state:

"Record snowfall is now falling in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore region, with accumulation expected to shatter the 1922 Washington record of 28 inches and the 1993 Baltimore record of 26.8 inches of snow. The storm is leaving destruction in its wake, with tornado watches in Florida and ice storms expected in North Carolina. In Virginia, towns are struggling to decide how to pay for snow removal, as their budgets have been blown through by previous storms.

"In response, the Virginia Republican Party has ads that mock Rep. Rick Boucher and Rep. Tom Periello — both Democrats in conservative districts who support climate legislation — because they “think global warming is a serious problem for Virginia.....The ad “features images of falling snow, stuck cars, and weathermen,” and urges viewers to call the congressmen “and tell them how much global warming you get this weekend”:

"In reality, catastrophic “snowpocalypse” and “snowmageddon” events are exactly what scientists have been warning would hit Virginians because of global warming, in part because warmer air can hold more water. As National Wildlife Federation climate scientist Amanda Staudt notes, winter storms are getting fiercer even as the season gets warmer....

"....this past month of January was the warmest on record for the planet."

As Martin Luther King, Jr. said: '"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."