AP source: (Patrick) Kennedy won't run for re-election in RI

AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/11/10 | Andrew Miga - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress.

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The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a month after a stunning Republican upset in the race for the Massachusetts Senate seat his late father, Edward Kennedy, held for almost half a century.

[slapshot]

ANGELO DIPIPPO

the Autonomist.com

Angelo is the real deal.

[onyx]

Gosh, I hope so! He might be moving back to MA to try to reclaim his “daddy’s seat” from Scott Brown, but I doubt that voters want to unseat Senator Brown in favor of a mentally ill, spoiled brat Kennedy.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Big accordion fan ?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Get a better collection of rugs.

[onyx]

I love the Boston Herald! They sure selected the right photo! LOL.
You’re so right!!! Rush will have a lot of fun with this tomorrow.

[dannyboy72a]

No, I do put Patches in the boat of “no one will give me any money since they know I am going to lose in a landslide”.

[GOPsterinMA]

No more rugs for Buddy. He’s au naturale these days.

[chris_bdba]

Gee wonder why? Has the Kennedy name lost it’s specialness with Ted gone?

[BARLF]

No way!

My guess Daddy was Patrick's teleprompter. Ted probably spent a fortune buying son a seat in congress.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Buddy without his rugs ? That sounds like one of the signs of the apocalypse.

[MJY1288]

Patrick Kennedy has never been able to get elected without Teddy's help, Now that Teddy has assumed room temperature, Patrick will have to fall back on interviews with Kieth Oberman and Rachel Maddow as he struggles to to speak without sounding like he just finished a huge bong hit

[Arthur McGowan]

Maybe he decided that 55 million dead babies was enough, and he didn’t want to participate in killing any more.

Nah.

[GOPsterinMA]

Yes. He had to hang ‘em up when he went to Club Fed.

[hoosiermama]

You betcha

[Arthur McGowan]

I’ve heard him speak a number of times. He didn’t sound as though he was struggling not to sound like he just had a bong hit. He sounded as though he just had a huge bong hit.

[MJY1288]

LOL I stand corrected

[maggief]

“Ted was his dad, not his uncle.”

Um, ya’ never know with this family. Not exactly the spittin’ image of Ted. :)

[fieldmarshaldj]

True... but he’s just as intelligent as Ted.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I guess they were worried he’d smuggle a Saturday Night Special inside of it.

[GOPsterinMA]

BBBWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!