[Tax-chick]

"My own story gave a lot of my colleagues a comfort level to tell me their own stories, privately," he said

If a preponderance of our Congresscritters are alcholics and drug addicts, that explains a lot.

[Eroteme]

"My own story gave a lot of my colleagues a comfort level to tell me their own stories, privately," he said in a recent telephone interview with The Associated Press.

There may be drunks and drug users in congress, but hard to imagine they're drunk or drugged enough to tell Kennedy about it.

He's making this up.