Pat Kennedy Going To Rehab

  •  May 6, 2006

This is the public-figure-who-has-screwed-up’s “get out of jail free card.”

Rep. Patrick Kennedy will enter rehab for addiction to prescription pain medication Friday evening after a highly publicized car crash near the Capitol.
Kennedy, D-R.I., plans to seek treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
The congressman was announcing his decision during a new conference Friday afternoon, then planned to travel to Minnesota later in the day.
Kennedy, who has struggled with addiction and depression, said he had checked into the Mayo Clinic over the Christmas holidays and returned to Congress “reinvigorated and healthy.”
“Of course, in every recovery, each day has its ups and downs, but I have been strong, focused and productive since my return,” Kennedy said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press.
The congressman said he became concerned about his condition after the Thursday morning car accident.
“I simply do not remember getting out of bed, being pulled over by the police, or being cited for three driving infractions,” Kennedy said. “That’s not how I want to live my life. And that’s not how I want to represent the people of Rhode Island.”

I still think he was drunk, and the Boston Herald is reporting that he was seen drinking Wed. evening in the Hawk & Dove bar on Capitol Hill. Also, the paperwork filled out by the officers who first responded to the incident (and were nearly hit by Kennedy’s car) seems to indicate that they thought he was drunk.
Sadly, this will probably be the extent to which Kennedy is held responsible for his actions. Most of us would have gotten a breathalyzer at the scene of the accident then would have been put in jail. Kennedy gets let go, a few weeks at a cushy rehab center, then right back to work. And plus, because he’s a Democrat the media will just let it all go. They’ll carry water for him (they already are with in-depth analysis on prescription drugs and how they can make you look and feel like you’re drunk) and then bury the story as soon as they can.
Pathetic.

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  • http://Array Tom_with_a_Dream

    (Posted on multiple SA threads …)

    I liked Jay Tea’s analysis on the treatment of Rush v. Kennedy.  

  • realtiybasedbob

    Hasn’t Noelle Bush been in and out of jail for crack

  • robert108

    How many times has Patrick Kennedy been in and out of rehab in his young life?  Nice statement of character there.  When he gets caught, he blames the drugs.  Another statement of character.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    diane spews, I’ve got my favorite targets here too, like Troll Bobby, HotelBoy, likmyshoes, etc.Hey lik, you folks set the pace, I just keep up with it.And I always refuse delivery of junk.

    One day you say that I am "gentle and nurturing" and now you’re insulting me. Okay. Heh.

    Talking to yourself doesn’t look good.

    By the way, lik, the ‘babes and sucklings’ comes from a verse "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings you have ordained praise’. Means ‘babies and those still nursing’.

    Sorry you didn’t recognize it.

    My knowledge and interest in Christianity is nil, so I didn’t get the reference in that regard. I know what a "suckling" is so I gathered what kind of insult you were throwing my way. I knew you were insulting me because it is about all you have in your bag of limited tricks.

  • realtiybasedbob

    Let’s not forget about Neil Bush and the Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association…we might still be paying that one off.

  • diane

    Hey, McCrackpot, what’s shakin’?

    You criticize my grammar when there are SO many better targets here?  Of course, they’re NeoCONS, like yourself, so I wouldn’t expect anything different.

    Nice that there’s nothing more you can try than hitting misspellings or grammatical ‘errors’.

     

  • Zsa Zsa

    Is it just me, OR does Phenegran seem like an odd drug to abuse? Isn’t that a suppository??? …

  • diane

    Stranger to the culture asks:

    "What do you mean by ‘childish’?

    Answer:

    I disagree with #1, agree with #2, don’t know about #3.

    Then put up or shut up. If you’re going to sit here and call me names, back up your juvenile antics with some reference. Or else I’m just going to conclude that you’re talking shit just for the sake of talking shit. Egh…what am I saying. That’s all you’ve done since you’ve gotten here.

    Oh sure you do. You just don’t have good answers to my points in many threads, so you throw this crap out.

    Now you’re assuming. Why, you’re on a roll.

    I have to work my way around the dhimmi’s, sluts, etc., to say anything at all.

    Who the fuck cares? "He did it too mommmy!" Great defense. You don’t notice that you vehemently insult those who’ve never labelled you a dhimmi.

    I’ve made excellent points about Isreal breaking U.N. SC resolutions, for one, which were not answered in any meaningful way.

    Actually they were. You just refused delivery.

    If you don’t like my style, then rein in your dogs here, or expect me to jump into the dogfight biting and scratching.

    They’re not my dogs. I don’t control anybody here. And nice use of the, "but he did it too mommy" defense. Very mature.

    P.S. Do you like my new poster name? Inspired by another thread here.

    Hey,..if you want to advertise your maturity and put yourself on the same level as many on democracyunderground.org, be my guest.

     

    likwidshoe on May 5, 2006 at 5:23 PM Stranger:  "Oh, very good.  Now I understand."

  • http://www.freerepublicans.com/ FreeRepublicans.com

    What I mean by that is, by the Teddy wing of the family’s standards, John and Bobby were saints.

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

     "I guess even who should be addicted is partisan with you?"

    Dhiane with Yoda, english did study.

  • diane

    By the way, lik, the ‘babes and sucklings’ comes from a verse "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings you have ordained praise’.  Means ‘babies and those still nursing’.

    Sorry you didn’t recognize it.

  • diane

    Sorry Dhiane, just picking on your syntax there.

    Yes, this is a target-rich environment, it is just so much more fun to pick on you.

    Ken McCracken on May 5, 2006 at 5:08 PM No problem, Kenny.  Feel free.  I’ve got my favorite targets here too, like Troll Bobby, HotelBoy, likmyshoes, etc.Hey lik, you folks set the pace, I just keep up with it.And I always refuse delivery of junk.

  • http://www.freerepublicans.com/ FreeRepublicans.com

    John was NOT a "good" person.

    Compared to Teddy he was "less worse." 

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    Sorry Dhiane, just picking on your syntax there.

    Yes, this is a target-rich environment, it is just so much more fun to pick on you.

  • http://www.freerepublicans.com/ FreeRepublicans.com

    Why is it that the half-way decent Kennedy’s are the ones cursed to fateful ends? 

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Robert Perry

    To flesh out what Seth and others note, JFK was well-known to be one who found himself in bed with a lot of different women, and was nearly court-martialed during WWII after bedding a German spy, according to Marvin Olasky’s "The American Leadership Tradition."  While President, the same source records him bedding Mob mistresses and (again) East German spyettes.

    So morally speaking, the Kennedy family history is not one exactly to brag about.

  • realtiybasedbob

    are we having fun or what?

     The Smoking Gun: Archive

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    I disagree with #1, agree with #2, don’t know about #3.

    Then put up or shut up. If you’re going to sit here and call me names, back up your juvenile antics with some reference. Or else I’m just going to conclude that you’re talking shit just for the sake of talking shit. Egh…what am I saying. That’s all you’ve done since you’ve gotten here.

    Oh sure you do. You just don’t have good answers to my points in many threads, so you throw this crap out.

    Now you’re assuming. Why, you’re on a roll.

    I have to work my way around the dhimmi’s, sluts, etc., to say anything at all.

    Who the fuck cares? "He did it too mommmy!" Great defense. You don’t notice that you vehemently insult those who’ve never labelled you a dhimmi.

    I’ve made excellent points about Isreal breaking U.N. SC resolutions, for one, which were not answered in any meaningful way.

    Actually they were. You just refused delivery.

    If you don’t like my style, then rein in your dogs here, or expect me to jump into the dogfight biting and scratching.

    They’re not my dogs. I don’t control anybody here. And nice use of the, "but he did it too mommy" defense. Very mature.

    P.S. Do you like my new poster name? Inspired by another thread here.

    Hey,..if you want to advertise your maturity and put yourself on the same level as many on democracyunderground.org, be my guest.

  • realtiybasedbob

    From the radical right wing article;

     

    If Patrick Kennedy, who is not a first offender, is addicted to painkillers, from where did he get them? — a good point — Rush, a confessed drug addict got his drugs from where and what is the pending charge Rush is burdened by?

     

    And there are news reports that he had been drinking earlier at a Capitol Hill bar and alcohol was later smelled on his breath. — good point — “some people say” is very popular these days.

     

    So, why was the officer on the scene prevented by more senior police officers from performing a routine sobriety test? — good point — an investigation of the capitol police is in order

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ Seth Yantiss

    The MSM would have you think that John and Bobbie were nice, decent people.   They just didn’t live long enough to do more harm, and the history was written without all the negatives of the day.  In many ways they were worse than Teddy. 

    John had the benefit, like Clinton, of a golden tongue.

  • realtiybasedbob

    Uh oh, Mr. Potty mouth has something to say… and he gives us a link to a radical right wing media outlet too boot…

    OK ok let’s check it out

  • diane

    Lik, Mr. Nice Guy, been ever so pollite.  How could I have not noticed?

     RepubliCON, Democrap, black and white, us and them, lib conserv, blah blah blah

  • diane

    Do any of them have bad backs?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ Seth Yantiss

    We do not need a Congress-person who gets addicted!  If you are so weak of character, you do not need to be representing the people. 

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    diane spews, Out of the mouths of duplicitous babes and sucklings….

    Don’t presume to know me diane. I am not duplicitous, nor a babe, nor a suckling.

    Do you ever actually have anything besides juvenile insults? Just asking, because I sure as hell don’t see it.

  • Bat One

    By all means let the pathetic Mr. Kennedy… this one… do his rehab thing.  After he serves 30 days for DUI, and willful reckless driving.  This is the same self-serving drivel his father used after killing Mary Jo Kopeckne.  And it is every bit as much bullshit today as it was back then.

  • diane

    We do not need a Congress-person who gets addicted!  If you are so weak of character, you do not need to be representing the people. 

    I thought you NeoCONS liked your heros and leaders addicted…aka Blobbo Limbaugh.  Doesn’t he represent you as your voice in the media?  I guess even who should be addicted is partisan with you?

  • diane

    Oh, contrare.  I never got personal until the dhimmis and dhummis and sluts and whores and watercarriers and the rest started up.

    El Presidente le gusta La Anthem Nacional en espanol. 

    Adios.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ Seth Yantiss

    What I mean by that is, by the Teddy wing of the family’s standards, John and Bobby were saints.

    Again…  do you EVER know of what you speak?

    John was NOT a "good" person. 

  • diane

    By the way, where can someone post a real story like this

    Judges challenge Internet wiretap rules
    ‘Your argument makes no sense,’ appeals judge tells FCC lawyer

    The Associated PressUpdated: 7:38 p.m. ET May 5, 2006

    WASHINGTON – A U.S. appeals panel sharply challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. A judge said the government’s courtroom arguments were “gobbledygook.”

     http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12645488/

    Instead of either weepy empathy threads for Blobbo Limbaugh or ‘get Kennedy’ nonsense?  NeoCON addict/liberal addict….what’s the difference.  Hopefully they’ll both stay in rehab and get some help for their parallel problems.

  • …”the President has failed..

    Don’t presume to know me diane. I am not duplicitous, nor a babe, nor a suckling.

    I disagree with #1, agree with #2, don’t know about #3.

    Do you ever actually have anything besides juvenile insults? Just asking, because I sure as hell don’t see it.

    Oh sure you do.  You just don’t have good answers to my points in many threads, so you throw this crap out.  I have to work my way around the dhimmi’s, sluts, etc., to say anything at all.  I’ve made excellent points about Isreal breaking U.N. SC resolutions, for one, which were not answered in any meaningful way.

    If you don’t like my style, then rein in your dogs here, or expect me to jump into the dogfight biting and scratching.

    P.S.  Do you like my new poster name?  Inspired by another thread here.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Oh, contrare. I never got personal until the dhimmis and dhummis and sluts and whores and watercarriers and the rest started up.

    Oh. So now you just take it out on people who had nothing to do with the above. Like me.

    Great logic diane.

    Alert me to when you take responsibility for your own actions.

  • http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

    On the other hand, a six-term Republican congressman from one of the northern tier states resigned when he ran a stop sign speeding.  No drugs, no alcohol.  Time to end this farce of the "kennedy" dynasty that his grandfather began with bootlegging booze and buying JFKs election in Chicago. 

  • realtiybasedbob
  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    btw – you’re the one who is setting the angry and hateful pace here.

  • diane

    Okay, I’ll play:  Black/white, us/them, lib/conserv, Repub/Demo:

    http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/04/27/bush.daughter/index.html

    April 27, 2001
    Web posted at: 7:58 PM EDT (2358 GMT)

    AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) — Jenna W. Bush, one of President Bush’s 19-year-old twin daughters, was cited for alcohol possession by a minor Friday morning, the Austin Police Department said.

    Plainclothes officers, carrying out a patrol of the downtown area, witnessed Bush, a freshman at the University at Texas at Austin, and an unnamed friend drinking alcohol in the nightclub Cheers, located on Austin’s popular Sixth Street, at 1:30 a.m. Friday.

    After officers questioned the women and determined they were under the legal drinking age of 21, the women were issued a "field release citation," according to a release from the Austin Police Department.

    Bush and the friend were not arrested, the police said. Two other people were cited during the sweep of bars.

    The Secret Service, which provides round-the-clock protection for the first family, said it does not comment on its "security methods and means" or on the "personal lives of our protectees."

     

    Shall we keep playing?

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  • realtiybasedbob

    Didn’t the new tricky Dick get popped twice for drunk driving?

  • diane
  • diane

    Here’s Granny’s dream world state:

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/barbara.asp

    Claim:   Former First Lady Barbara Bush said of the war in Iraq: "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

    Status:   True

    The remark in question occurred early in the three-way conversation, following a line of query directed at Mrs. Bush regarding whether she found herself studying her son for verbal or visual signs of how well he was holding up under the pressure. (Sawyer: "As a mother, do you watch for strain on him?") Mrs. Bush replied that she looked for such indications in all five of her children and remarked on the family’s propensity for having hair that turns white earlier than is the norm. An additional query about whether the senior Bushes, who do not normally watch a great deal of television, found themselves watching more TV during this period than was their usual custom fetched from Mrs. Bush the quote that has since earned a measure of notoriety:
    I watch none. He [former President Bush] sits and listens and I read books, because I know perfectly well that, don’t take offense, that 90 percent of what I hear on television is supposition, when we’re talking about the news. And he’s not, not as understanding of my pettiness about that. But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer.

  • realtiybasedbob

    I think there is a bush family curse

  • http://wizbangblog.com/ Jay Tea

    (Blush) Why, thanks, Tom. It helps that I don’t like either of them.

     

    J. 

  • realtiybasedbob

    I wonder if the nutter’s golden child, Dumbya, got any preferential treatment when he was actually popped for drunk driving?

    After all, his family name is in some circles prestigious.

  • diane

    Hate, hypocrisy, and more hate.

    The diane diet.

    likwidshoe on May 5, 2006 at 4:55 PM Out of the mouths of duplicitous babes and sucklings….

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  • WETBACK
  • diane

    Lies, lies, all lies, I tell you, RBB!!!

    Well, my hub will soon be here so I’ll sign off.  He’s been playing a little twilight golf tonight with some friends.  His back’s been bothering him but the pills someone gave him are helping.

  • realtiybasedbob

    God bless Al Gore’s internets. Just type in some words and look what comes up.

    MotherJones.com | News

  • WETBACK

    oops sorry people Tecumseh’s curse

  • robert108

    No factual disputes from any of the haters, I see. 

    You can’t have it both ways. They persecuted Rush for "doctor shopping" which means that he got his drugs from doctors(seems obvious, doesn’t it?).  They couldn’t prove that he got them illegally, even after wasting two years trying to persecute him for it.  It is a good question for Kennedy, though, I agree. 

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    I’ll bet Blobbo Limbaugh has downed alot more pills than the Kennedy heir. Of course, that incredible pain explains it. What a hero to golf his ‘brain’ off anyway, eh?

    Hate, hypocrisy, and more hate.

    The diane diet.

  • diane

    I’ll bet Blobbo Limbaugh has downed alot more pills than the Kennedy heir.  Of course, that incredible pain explains it.  What a hero to golf his ‘brain’ off anyway, eh?

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Robert Perry

    Zsa Zsa, he’s actually admitted painkillers, not whatever you mention.   Every time I’ve needed something stronger than aspirin (or my wife has), we’ve been warned about how addictive they are.  Never had a problem personally, but a lot of people do.

     

  • robert108

    Here’s a comparison between the treatment of Kennedy and the treatment of Rush in the MSM:

    http://levin.nationalreview.com/ 

  • robert108

    "From the radical right wing article…" 

    Well, it does dissent from your radical left-wing views.  I guess you only like dissent from one side.  Typical.

    After all your smear attempts, no factual disagreement, I see. 

  • TwoHotel9

    In the pill popping category I will always put my money on the Kennedy. Booze, drugs, unwilling women! It’s their forte’.

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  • diane

      When he gets caught, he blames the drugs

    Blobbo blames his bad (golfing) back.

    Hey RBB, Bush’s girls have had a bit of a problem with the sauce as well.

  • realtiybasedbob

    John Ellis Bush got his badge for public drunkenness

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