Crazed Wingers in State Houses

This blog has talked about the hidden anti-abortion agenda among some bills before the Wyoming Legislature this session. They're the product of some of our home-grown right-wingers who apparently worry more about shadowy gunmen targeting fetuses than they do about the health and care of post-fetal kids. See posts on Jan. 28 and Feb. 1, 4, 7, and 12.

But our wingers pale in comparison to those in other states. Not surprisingly, Texas leads the way in the cuckoo category. This comes from Daily Kos (via Left in the West):

Wow. Just when you think Republicans can't get any crazier, we find out that the powerful chairman of the Texas House Appropriations Committee, Warren Chisum, doesn't even believe that the earth revolves around the sun. Still, it's enough to set the world a-spinning that the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, the most powerful committee in the House, distributed to legislators a memo pitching crazed wingers who believe the earth stands still -- doesn't spin on its axis or revolve around the Sun -- that Copernicus was part of a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the Old Testament.