Posted on 05/09/2006 8:54:32 AM PDT by snowrip
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 9:43 a.m. EDT
Dems Renominate Patrick Kennedy from Rehab
Less than a week after he crashed his car into a Capitol Hill police barrier, rehabbing Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy received a rousing endorsement from the state Democratic Party, who touted him as a competent, if flawed, public servant at their convention Monday night.
In a speech described by the Associated Press as "moving," state Representative Paul Crowley said Kennedy's ability to do his job should not be questioned - downplaying the fact that the he's had two car crashes in the last month, hit himself in the face with a hammer two weeks ago and admitted over the weekend that he was addicted to booze and pain pills.
"We do not walk away from our friends," declared Bill Lynch, chairman of the state Democratic Party.
On Saturday Mr. Kennedy checked himself into the Mayo Clinic after acknowledging that he had misjudged the extent of his problems, which he described as ranging from binge drinking to misuse of prescription drugs.
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Kennedy continued to maintain, however, that alcohol had nothing to do with his car crash early Thursday morning - though he insisted he remembered nothing about the events the led up to the accident.
"I don't really see this as threatening his political career," said Darrell West, a political science professor at Brown University and author of a biography of the Kennedy scion.
"The Republicans are going to have to come up with someone much better," West he told the Boston Globe.
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Dims are morons - just look at who they send to DC from MA decade after decade.
Hey, if the Dems keep re-nominating his father who drowned a girl in a car accident, what's a little rehab?
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Its a screwed up world...
Patrick Kennedy is Irish for Marion Barry
One of the reasons that Democrats have been out of power for so long is that the Democrat base does not punish their elected officials for mis-behavior. Republicans are immediately punished by their base. Democrats end up disgusting the swing voters.
Anybody but a Kennedy would have been in jail for driving under the influence. A Kennedy gets re-nominated!
NO, the difference between Dems and Reps is they don't abandon their own...they don't...we do.
Wait until he kills somebody!
These people are enablers and just asking for trouble.
The drunk doper needs help - not assistance with all his problems!
In dad's footsteps...it must be the curse.
LOL! Post of the Day!
Watch for the curse to come about -- Pat will kill himself and Mary Jo's family gets to come to the funeral.
Yeah... like moving his fat alcoholic DemocRAT *ss to a different district. LOL
The name Kennedy is power in New England.
Any other family this screwed up would be ripping each others clothes off on the Jerry Springer Show.
"I'm better, not bitter." -Marion Barry upon his release from federal custody. What a guy. Still snorting after all these years.
As Michelle Malkin wrote, "Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment."
The Dems have already proven that killing someone with your car can be overlooked. Note that MADD has not said anything about Patches driving under the influence. That's because MADD gets its funding from the Victim Witness Assistance Program whose funding is controlled in MA by the AG's Office and Riley is a Kennedy guy.
Unless they happen to be an inconvienient single woman, trapped in a flooded car in the pond. Then, we run like a thief!
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