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Home Front: Politix
Kennedy crashes car (not in river)
2006-05-04
Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the U.S. Capitol early Thursday.
Like father, like son.
He denied alcohol was a factor.
"Oh God!! I am not my dad!!"
"I was involved in a traffic accident last night at First and C Street SE, near the U.S. Capitol," Kennedy, who represents the New England state of Rhode Island, said in a written statement released by his office Thursday afternoon. "I will fully cooperate with the Capitol Police in whatever investigation they choose to undertake."
"Please don't let the press get me"
"I consumed no *hick* alcohol prior to the incident," Kennedy, son of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said in the statement. It was issued after news reports surfaced about the accident.

According to news reports, the single-car accident happened around 3 a.m.
Call me skeptical, but I know that about 90% of single car crashes at 3am are drunk idiots going home from the bar.
Capitol Police did not immediately return phone calls for comment.
We know nothing!
Kennedy, 38, spent time at a drug rehabilitation clinic before he went to Providence College in Rhode Island. He has openly discussed his personal mental health problems, including having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Early this year he spoke about having been in recovery "for depression, for alcoholism and substance abuse."
Like father, like son.
Kennedy is the son of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and his former wife, Joan Kennedy.
Posted by:DarthVader

#7  Hey—the Tidal Basin is a mile west. That's where you're supposed to crash your car in DC! Don't you have any respect for your elders?
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2006-05-04 22:29  

#6  Yep, that's what I do to, take a shit load of sleep medication then get behind the wheel at zero dark thirty - what a douche bag. The house has votes at 0245?
Posted by: Broadhead6   2006-05-04 22:22  

#5  Liar and Kennedy...but I repeat myself
Posted by: Frank G   2006-05-04 22:21  

#4  Ah, an update...

WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness. Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."'
Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy's gastroenteritis.
Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes in Congress and took "prescribed" amounts of Phenergan and Ambien, another prescribed drug that he occasionally takes to fall asleep.
"Some time around 2:45 a.m., I drove the few blocks to the Capitol Complex believing I needed to vote," his second statement said. "Apparently, I was disoriented from the medication."

Yeah. The...medication! That's the ticket!
Posted by: tu3031   2006-05-04 22:16  

#3  Ah, the Kennedy curse. As long as the cops continue to look the other way, the curse will remain. But the democrat culture of corruption will never change. They are doomed by who they are.
Posted by: Clinemble Fleamp9933   2006-05-04 21:59  

#2  He could be telling the exact truth, note he did NOT say he was not intoxicated, only that he had drunk no alcohol.

He could well be blasted on any number of substances and still be telling the exact truth, That's exactly the kind of twisted-truth "Statements" that politicians are famous for.

Note he was NOT given any kind of sobriety test (Or if he was, It's very pointedly not mentioned), that means that any tests made later cannot be used as evidence.

(Plan A, get away from the Cops, drink in the presence of witnesses, get picked up again, and you just bought yourself a "get out of jail free card) I remember a bit of his father's first reports after Chappaquiddic (SP?), his lawyer immediately sat him down and fed him three or so stiff drinks in his (The Lawyers) presence, then called the cops.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-05-04 21:54  

#1  Oh, good. The First Family of American Degeneracy is at it again...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-05-04 21:36  

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