Posted on 05/06/2006 5:06:53 AM PDT by Liz
After his second smash-up in three weeks - and a lot of unanswered questions about an alleged police cover-up - Rep. Patrick Kennedy yesterday declared that he's entering rehab to deal with an addiction to painkillers. This was hardly the congressman's first such incident. And he was in rehab just last Christmas.......the son of Sen. Ted Kennedy, said he doesn't remember anything about the incident, but that he's "deeply concerned." (At least no one died in the back seat.) The congressman crashed the car he was driving at 2:45 a.m. into a Capitol Hill traffic barrier after he narrowly averted broadsiding a cop cruiser.
He'd been speeding (in the wrong lane) and did not have his headlights on, cops said. A police report says his eyes were "red and watery," he was unsteady on his feet and his speech was "slightly slurred" - in short, it said, Kennedy was clearly driving under the influence. But under the influence of what?
Kennedy's latest fender-bender follows an April 15 accident with a car he apparently cut off. (Police did not publicize the incident, but a Boston paper found out 10 days later.) In recent years, he was accused of assaulting a Los Angeles airport guard after he tried to squeeze an oversize piece of luggage through a metal detector. Kennedy admitted he'd been rude and offered to settle the case for $25,000. Soon after, he was accused of causing $28,000 worth of damage to a rented yacht in Martha's Vineyard; his insurance company paid off the owner. At about the same time, the Coast Guard was called in to escort a female friend off the yacht following a heated argument.
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A man that doesn't care. Check that: A man who doesn't have to care. You know, "Who cares what you think? I'm a Kennedy. I can do anything I want."
ROFLOLOLOLOL
He won't stop. Oh he'll fight with it for a month, maybe two or three, but it'll come back. He's not quitting for him, he's quitting for outside things, office, publicity,. It won't stick. What'll they do when he kills someone?
When will this family stop breeding? More than one life depends on it.
I can't wait to hear Maxine Waters, Patrick Le he, he,he and the other Democrats have to say on this subject.
If this had been a Bush Family incident, the MSM would milk it for Months.
In the case of Kennedys it is more like the turd falling not far from the a$$hole.
Legacy of Lying with the whole Kennedy family pissing on the public and the MSM assuring everyone that it is raining.
Kennedys - Proud sponsors of the Michael Skakel Celebrity Golf Tournament and the William Kennedy Smith Sadie Hawkins Day Barhopping Marathon.
This little extra bit wouldn't fit in my tagline.
LOL! I suppose feces better describes this Kennedy than fruit.
LOL! Another good one, mf!
No class, no clue, out to lunch, arrogant beyond belief.
"where over 40% of the state is Christian"
Surely the percentage is higher than that?
Since when did the taxpayer-funded US Coast Guard become the Kennedy's private 'Ho Removal Water Taxi?
As is, they have power, and some influence, but it is blunted by their personal history and actions.
If Ted Kennedy did not like to drink, and party he may well have become President of the United States. As is, he is a Senator. A powerful position true, but with limits on what he can do.
I once observed that the main stream media has not done those on the left a favor by not holding them up to the same standards they do with those on the right.
A politician on the right knows that if they are caught doing something wrong, they will be publicly exposed, and figuratively ran out of town on a rail. Those on the right are not (necessarily) better men, they just know they will not be given a pass, as those on the left will.
So any social brake that would modify bad behavior is not available for Democrats, and people being people, they continue to act badly.
Letting someone get away with bad behavior (as any parent of a toddler knows) is not the best way to insure future good behavior.
Pat Kennedy is the face of the Democratic party. I did not make this so, they did when they decide to defend rather then condemn his action.
It's one of those new disposables from "Buy-A-Heap."
I'm also curious about when Patrick appeared in a neck brace.
And apparently Patrick went into rehab this past Christmas, where did he go and for what?
LOL. I'm glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when that popped up.
Naw - next step, after pretending to be at Mayo for 30 days is hiring a designated driver for his next disposable car.
Kennedy worship is just a silly form of celebrity worship. JFK's tragic death cemented his place in the American pantheon and bestowed a lasting aura on all his relatives.
Rhode Island...another state that should be voted off the island. Too bad the Founders didn't write such a mechanism into the Constitution.
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