Patrick Kennedy and Double Standards

National Review Online ^ | 5/5/06 | Mark R. Levin

[maryz]

so what pain meds is he addicted to? Jack Daniels?

And for what pain? This painkiller thing was really late to the party; one of Howie Carr's callers noted a verbal parallel of one phrase in Patches' speech to one of dad's after Chappaquiddick. Maybe he spent the afternoon putting together a pastiche of lines that "worked" and used Rush's too?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

What?!?

You paid for his Ambien and Phenergan and NOW you want to get out of paying for his rehab?

"Indian giver."

[mnehring]

Well, the case with Rush was different because (remaining sentence under construction).... Simply being addicted to a legal substance is not a crime, DUI is.

[American Quilter]

How long before Cynthia McKinney calls a press conference to announce that she's attending anger management class?

She's not smart enough.

[Paperdoll]

>So why was the officer on the scene prevented by more senior police officers from performing a routine sobriety test?<

The answer is starkly obvious - like the Mexican "law enforcers", corruptly "on the take".

[MaineVoter2002]

LOL!

http://www.fatboy.cc/

[AzNASCARfan]

Damn straight! My wife got a DUI about 8 years ago and our insurance has NEVER gone down...

[OldFriend]

Does Levin begrudge the courtesy given to this Kennedy because it wasn't given to his friend Rush.

How many of us have been given a pass for speeding or some other infraction of the law.

In life there are consequences, sometimes we escape those consequences and other times the boom is lowered.

Whining about what other people get away with, is juvenile.

[Rakkasan1]

3 passes in ONE month?

[Paperdoll]

>I'll see your DITTO, and raise you a BUMP<

LOL! I love you fellas with sparkling wit, and call with a PING!

[OldFriend]

I've skipped allergy medication that would have made my life much more bearable, just in case the school would call and I'd have to drive to get one of my children.

We all make choices. Some of us have more discipline, but mostly it's simply a matter of thanking G-d for being able to do the right thing.......most of the time.

In years gone by I've driven drunk and lived to tell about it.

Of course, that was before I was a mom, but that is no excuse at all.

[girlscout]

LOL!

[Snardius]

Whining about what other people get away with, is juvenile.

It's not that he got away with it...it's because we all know how the media and Democrats would have behaved were it a Republican congressman.

We'd be subjected to non-stop vitriol from Al Sharpton, et.al...

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Damn straight! My wife got a DUI about 8 years ago and our insurance has NEVER gone down...

Two more years to go.

[spunkets]

Note that any citizen would have had their blood drawn and checked after an incident like this. Not this clown. They give him a pass, so he can make up a story.

[OldFriend]

So what!

We go on with our lives. Life is not fair.

I'd much rather be us than them. Wouldn't you?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

These people just don't realize that they work for us anymore.

The Kennedys are the Castros of America......

So long as they remain in power they can torture the people unmercifully!

[AliVeritas]

Yeah okay... like the accident Patty had two weeks ago in Rhode Island that no one's reporting...

[elcid1970]

It's not the D.C. Police, it's the Capitol Police. It's not the District of Columbia, but the Federal Compound (or something). The Swimmer's influence therein is just as immense as his gut.

Those two cops had a Hobson's choice: Kennedy's wrath or dereliction of duty.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

This smells like a police payoff ...ala Skakels in 1975 Connecticut!