Posted on 05/05/2006 1:16:51 PM PDT by Polybius
WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy will enter rehab for addiction to prescription pain medication Friday evening after a highly publicized car crash near the Capitol.
Kennedy, D-R.I., plans to seek treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
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I am a registered RI voter and I have not yet read the 52 comments thus far:
BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS...
My God, you're absolutely right. It's like the disease of liberalism has a look now . . . one begins to droop and sag under their own idiocy and delusional conspiracies.
We conservatives conversely have Bo Derek and well me (just kidding!). But I can say even when a conservative may not be America's Next Top Model, they are attractive through their intelligence, ideals,integrity, wisdom, and many shine with faith and courage. :)
Damn he's only 38 and he looks at least 58.
OMG, you are right.. what kind of leader runs around with Spongebob stickers on their car like a college kid?
Is this photoshopped, or did Patches really wear a cervical collar? I remember the pictures of his father in a collar at Chappaquidick.
Why,oh,why do they keep refering to this guy as a "boy"? I had Hannity on for a little while this afternoon and he must have used that term 4 times if he used it once:
(To paraphrase)
"We wish this boy this best..."
"The boy needs to admit..." etc. etc.
And there I am looking up from the sewing machine and snap, "For pete sake, he's 38 years old!! He's no 'boy'!"
If Patrick Kennedy murders someone, he might lose in R.I.
And maybe not even then. Ted seemed to get away with it.
He's prettier.
Kennedy gets out of his car knee-crawlin' drunk, and the MSM is doing all they can to talk about prescription drugs. Cheney reports a hunting accident to the local sherrif within an hour or so, and the media's got him all tanked up. My head hurts. Sure glad I've got Fox and the Free Republic.
Probably because he's never said or done anything that makes anyone think of him as a man.
They will reelect him. Liberals aren't very bright. They are the same party who reelected Marion Barry twice. Liberalism should be treated like bipolarism. With heavy medication.
" Why,oh,why do they keep refering to this guy as a "boy"?
This recasting of a 38 yr old man- as a " boy " is very irritating and disingenuous.
Rehabilitation takes rigorous honesty. I think you are correct - they cannot be rehabilitated.
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More to the point: Why should a Kennedy want to be rehabilitated? IOW, what for? They suffer few, if any, consequences for their actions-- and they know it. Their last name slices through any Gordian knot -- and they that too.
Remind me of that line in Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…"
Not three lines: three words.
I've been listening to our (generally conservative) talk show hosts this afternoon, and Rush is almost immediately mentioned when this subject comes up.
Heh. So I'm not the only one who noticed that.
Now that's clever!
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