From my understanding Rush was taking at least 80 percocets a day. There is not a Doctor in the World that would write a script for that quantity.
99.9% of druggies consuming that amount would have been brought up on trafficking charges.
I'm a loyal Conservative but....this was a sweetheart deal, no question. I'm all for second chances however, if this story was about a Dem. would we all be so understanding?
That is not what the facts that have been presented state. 80 percocets a day would show in his ability to do his job. His job was not affected. Also that much acetominiphen would likely destroy his liver... again, no evidence of that occurring.
You are asking us to reason from a false assumption. There could be no such story about a Dim. They are involved with drugs all the time but no one ever seems to be interested. ("Nose like a vacuum cleaner," ring a bell?)
It is my understanding that Rush was the only one, or only one of a handful, that has ever been charged under this "doctor shopping" statute. If a Dim ever does what Rush did: admit to 20 million people that he has been addicted to pain killers, put himself into rehab, and successfully break the addiction; then look for sappy stories on 60 minutes and years of PA type anti-addiction commercials. (Yeah. I know. I'm reasoning from false hypothesis too.)
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