Holy Moly! There's NO control over that pen!
Posted on 05/04/2006 4:48:15 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had had no alcohol before the accident.
Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports.
"I was involved in a traffic accident last night at First and C Street SE near the U.S. Capitol," Kennedy said in a written statement released by his office. "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident. I will fully cooperate with the Capitol Police in whatever investigation they choose to undertake."
Kennedy appeared to be intoxicated when he crashed his car into a barrier on Capitol Hill early Thursday morning, said Louis P. Cannon, president of the Washington chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Cannon, who was not there, said the officers involved in the accident were instructed by an official "above the rank of patrolman" to take Kennedy home. No sobriety tests were conducted at the scene.
A letter written by a Capitol Police officer to Acting Chief Christopher McGaffin said Kennedy appeared to be staggering when he left the vehicle after the crash about 3 a.m. The letter was first reported by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper.
Kennedy said he was late for a vote, officer Greg Baird said in the letter to McGaffin. Baird is acting chairman of the Capitol Hill chapter of the FOP police union. The last vote of the night had occurred almost six hours earlier.
Kennedy, the son of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and his staff declined to discuss any further details of the accident. The congressman took part in House votes Thursday.
Capitol Police did not immediately return phone calls for comment. They issued a one-line statement saying they were investigating a traffic violation that occurred early in the morning at that location. Baird wrote McGaffin that two sergeants who responded to the accident conferred with the watch commander and were ordered to leave the scene.
He said that after the officers left, Capitol Police officials gave Kennedy a ride home.
Kennedy spent time at a drug rehabilitation clinic before he went to Providence College. He has been open about mental health issues, including being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
This family gets away with it all.
1969-Edward M. Kennedy, drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Massachusetts' Chappaquiddick Island. Mary Jo Kopechne, an aide who was in the car with him, dies in the accident.
1973-Joseph P. Kennedy 2d, the son of Robert and Ethel, is the driver in a car accident on Cape Cod that leaves one passenger permanently paralyzed.
1986-Patrick Kennedy, the teenage son of Sen. Edward Kennedy, undergoes treatment for cocaine addiction.
Maybe he needs to go back to rehab.
One wonders if there was an occupant in the car.
Did anyone ask the blonde witness? (well inquiring minds want to know, lol.)
Holy Moly! There's NO control over that pen!
Bipolar? Give me a f***ing break ... is this the adult version of juvenile ADD? On the other hand ... so what, the guy had a few to many ... give it a break. How many political types in governments around the world have had a few to many ... starting with Winston Churchill who, when it came to putting a few away ... would leave the Kennedy's in the dust.
Now you see what Senator Teddy Kennedy was justifiably critical of when he bitterly opposed Judge Bork's elevation to the Supreme Court: two systems of justice, with leniency for the privileged such as himself (Chappaquiddick), his son (Capitol Police will shut it up), his father-in-law, Edmund Reggie (pal of Edwin Edwards, sentenced to 120 days home confinement and a measly $30,000 fine), his nephew Joe (who left a girl paralyzed after an auto accident on Nantucket), his late nephew Michael (affair with underaged babysitter), his nephew William Smith ("feminists" strangely silent when young girl brought rape charges).
If this goes to court, do you think Patrick will show up for his hearing wearing a neck brace?
Looks like the handwriting of operator #2. :)
I see. My mistake. I was looking at the second name, which is crossed-out, the owner of car #1.
They've had a lot of practice since then.
Heck, I wouldn't believe it if it were 2:45 P.m.
Just keeping the family tradition intact.
Let's not forget Joe Kennedy. There is a woman paralyzed to this date thanks to an auto accident.
Nearly hit a patrol car, swerved into the security barrier.
Staggered out of the auto.....
Also, I wonder what really happened to Marilyn Monroe.
I've got a bridge over Chappaquiddick I'd like to sell him.
In WA state, if you refuse the sobriety test on the way to the polls to vote for Gregoire, they make you King County Executive.
I used to be curious if there were any smart people in RI and Mass. Now I know!
A modest proposal: No Kennedy shall ever again be permitted to operate any car, plane, or other dangerous machinery.
If anyone still believes this family is not overrun with egomaniacal menace-to-society fools I've got a bridge at Chappaquiddick to sell them....
A modest proposal: No Kennedy shall ever again be permitted to operate any car, plane, or other dangerous machinery.
If anyone still believes this family is not overrun with egomaniacal menace-to-society fools I've got a bridge at Chappaquiddick to sell them....
Someone better count the interns. The reflecting pools in that neighborhood aren't very deep, but you never know with a Kennedy...
Maybe the family should treat him the same way they did Rose, so as "not to cause any public embarrasment to the family".
Of course, if he is as big a lush as his dad, then he is mostly self-lobotomized already.
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