Babies and Bathwater Award

Goes to the douchebag from Kentucky, Sen. Jim Bunning (R. - surprised?), for his justification in killing proposed amendments to the Patriot Act which would protect the civil liberties of all Americans:

"Civil liberties do not mean much when you are dead."

Life before liberty. He must have left school around 5th grade, before they got to the part about Patrick Henry.

(inscription on Bunning's B&B Award)
The Patriot Act -- Too Important For Liberty!!