Jim Bunning - /headdesk

First as a law student and now as an attorney, I've always been a fan of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - her opinions have generally showed clarity of thought and a good deal of appreciation for the bottom line, as opposed to some long-winded Founding Fathers interpretation or some off the wall precedent.

I was saddened by her recent illness, and I hope she will recover. The loss of any great legal mind is always painful, and I sincerely hope that Justice Ginsburg will be with us for a long, long time before she goes and joins the Great Bar Association in the Sky.

So, today, we get the wonderful Kentucky jackass Jim Bunning, playing cliche partisan anti-court rhetoric cards and stating that Ginsburg has 9 months to live. He later apologized, but still misspelled Ginsburg's name.

This moron represents his state in the House of Representatives, and he can't even spell the name of a Supreme Court justice right. He is another great example (along with Roland Burris) of why democratic government requires constant vigilance - and also the dark downside of letting everyone's vote count equally.

"Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! [. . .] God Save the United States and this Honorable Court."