Kennedy driving drunk?

Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), son of Ted Kennedy, drove to work at 2:45 AM Thursday morning, claiming he was racing to vote on the floor of Congress. He drove to the Capital and ended up crashing into a barrier. Witnesses said he did not have his headlights on and seemed to be stumbling quite a bit when he got out of his car.

Police said they saw the car swerve before the accident, and it appeared that Kennedy was intoxicated. When questioned, Kennedy told police he was late for a vote, even though the final vote of the night took place six hours earlier. Reportedly, the police officers smelt alcohol on his breath.

Here's the interesting part of all of this. Apparently, just as he was about to be given a breathalizer test, capital police came in and said they would take it from there. They then drove Kennedy home without giving a breathalizer test. Preferential treatment? I think so.

Kennedy later stated that he was taking "prescribed" amounts of Phenergan and Ambien. Apparently this is what led him to drive this way.

Kennedy said "At no time before the incident did I consume any alcohol."

Ya know, I can understand why people were upset that Cheney did not get a breathalizer test. He probably did have a beer or two. But, in my eyes, this situation is far worse. Anyone else in America would have been given a breathalizer when presumably driving drunk. But not Kennedy.

The democratic blogs should be outraged, right? I seem to recall them being very upset that Cheney was not given a breathalizer after he shot a man in the face. Instead he went home, presumably to sleep off the alcohol...or so the democratic blogs think. However, I'll bet they won't be writing about this one too much.

Just interesting how life works, isn't it?

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