This may or may not have been the plot of a Wile E. Coyote cartoon

At some point, one would think, the Republican Party is going to eventually need legislators who are not deeply, deeply stupid.

While defending the need to build a costly wall along the southern U.S. border, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) claimed on Wednesday that nuclear bombs could be hidden inside bales of marijuana smuggled into the United States through Mexico. “I can suggest to you that there are national security implications here for a porous border,” Franks told CNN host Brianna Keilar on Wednesday. “We sometimes used to make the point that if someone wanted to smuggle in a dangerous weapon, even a nuclear weapon, into America, how would they do it? And the suggestion was made, well, we’ll simply hide it in a bale of marijuana.”

Yes. Yes, of course. That is exactly how a foreign terrorist group would want to smuggle a nuclear weapon into this country—by wrapping it in a gigantic bale of the thing that all the United States border agencies are furiously searching for in the first place. Ideally, something that all the security dogs could smell from 100 yards away.

This seems a perfectly logical plan that all the bright terrorists would be super-duper eager to carry out, so long as there is no border wall to stop them. Quick, wrap everything in marijuana! The Americans will never find it then! Ha ha ha!

Ahem. You know, these are supposedly the best our nation has to offer—the people chosen by our citizens as the most capable, the brightest, the keenest minds we can bring to bear on our national problems.

That is the theory, anyway. We probably need to re-evaluate that.