Last year, the now-disgraced Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay advocated impeachment for judges, or dramatically limiting their power. It created a stir even in GOP circles in Congress, and Democrats jumped all over the issue, suspecting DeLay was out to eviscerate the so-called liberal, activist judges who are among the principal demons in the Republican catechism.

DeLay is out of Congress now, brought down by charges that he is connected to the scandalous swindles of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. And he's furious with the Supreme Court for backing a lower court ruling that his name has to remain on the ballot in his former Texas congressional district, even though he's not running and now lives in Virginia.

Here is how he described the Supreme Court justice who refused to accept his arguments: "He obviously spent no time looking at what's happening in the court in which he has oversight. Within three hours, he denied this stay."

And "You can always count on the judiciary to make stupid rulings. Not only stupid, but dangerous."

The judge DeLay is excoriating is the darling of the conservatives, Justice Antonin Scalia. Who knew?