Former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce stepped down as the
party's first vice-chairman late on Sunday following a firestorm of
criticism leveled against him by both Republicans and Democrats.

Pearce made the comments about the federal-state healthcare program for
the poor amid a broader discussion of welfare abuses during his radio
show earlier this month.

"You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get a woman
Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations ..."


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As GOP right-wing-nuts who say what they really think are eliminated
from the party, what are left are the ones smart enough not to say what
they really think. A more dangerous GOP is evolving.