"Wise?"

Evidently, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is sitting on $16000 in credit card debt, $15000 in unpaid (presumably delinquent) dental bills, and has only about $32000 in the bank. Despite decades of highly paid legal work, her net worth is only about that of Joe Biden's.

I can't prove specific instances of this, but I have to wonder whether a lot of the weird things coming out of the District of Columbia have something to do with people (Sotomayor, Joe Biden, Barack Blagojevich Obama, Norm Coleman, others) who don't know how to handle money, and lobbyists who know that they can get something done if they "help" with the situation.

And I can't figure out how someone runs up $15000 in dental bills. I'm pretty sure that government workers just might have pretty good insurance, so that kind of money ought to buy a set of false teeth or crowns in solid platinum. One would have to assume that this "wise Latina" desperately needed some lessons in brushing and flossing to go along with the lessons she and Barack Obama skipped about Article 1 of the Constitution, the purpose of law, and the 2nd Amendment.