Update/Bumped: A little black man's justice for Kenedae? I don't think so.
WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy has reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of prescription drugs in connection for his middle-of-the-night car crash last month near the U.S. Capitol.
Two additional charges of reckless driving and failure to exhibit a driving permit will be dismissed under the plea agreement reached with prosecutors.
"As congressman Kennedy has said all along, he will take full responsibility for his actions and that is what he is doing today," Kennedy's chief of staff, Sean Richardson, said Tuesday.
Besides, it'll thrill the hell out of John Conyers.
You know what they say. When life gives you lemons, pander shamelessly to your minority constituents by making lemonade a conservative would be pilloried for.
All I know is if you're going to take Ambien there are two simple rules.
1) Hide your car keys.
2) Don't mix with drugs and/or booze.
Follow these and you should get a very good night sleep.
Posted by: windy city | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 at 08:41 PM
GAWD, Not even J.C. Watts could've gotten by with that statement!
Posted by: Rick | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 at 09:00 PM
Patrick just needs to go skiing. With any luck, we'll have one less Kennedy to read about.
Posted by: david r | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 at 10:16 PM
*clap*clap*clap*
[Ambien Rule #3: don't vote in Congress]
Posted by: Claire | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 at 02:00 AM
Didn't he ever learn in his various rehabs that Ambien and other over the counter CNS (central nervous system) drugs are no no? It's common for so-called recovering drunks to use such drugs. Some even use benedryl for its CNS effects. But hey!! it's over the counter!!! It's a common ruse thought up by alcoholics trying to appear to be nonusing. Bad news. It caught up with him. Will he learn his lesson? I doubt it. Maybe it'll be Nyquil next. Or perhaps massive Robitussin.
Posted by: strayze | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 at 08:36 AM
Nice deal and a sweet one too.
Laws are made to follow by only a few.
Posted by: Imhere | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 12:25 PM
Damn, I wish I was a rich, white republican like the Kennedy's. Oh, wait a minute.............
Posted by: Rick | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 03:11 PM
Poor Patches- - just can't convince anyone of his sobriety after most recent retreading. Patches, Mayo is not a program of reparation; It's supposed to be a treatment program, where the cornerstone to sobriety is honesty to yourself and others. Some are unable to grasp this simple fact and will continue to suffer and create suffereing.
Posted by: strayze | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 03:26 PM
Poor Patches- - just can't convince anyone of his sobriety after most recent retreading. Patches, Mayo is not a program of reparation; It's supposed to be a treatment program, where the cornerstone to sobriety is honesty to yourself and others. Some are unable to grasp this simple fact and will continue to suffer and create suffereing.
Posted by: strayze | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 03:27 PM
If he had been a rich white republican it would have never made it on the news and if it had, Dan would have been bitching how unfair he was being treated.
Posted by: James | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 05:26 PM
"Nice deal and a sweet one too.
Laws are made to follow by only a few.
Posted by: Imhere | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 12:25 PM"
Yeah, just like the one ole Rush got.
Posted by: James | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 05:28 PM
"Yeah, just like the one ole Rush got."
Let's diagram this brilliant comment. First, Rush is a talking head on radio. Kennedy is a US Congressman. 2nd Rush was busted for abusing prescription drugs........not for DRIVING while abusing prescription drugs and alcohol. Yep, James is absolutely correct. There is no difference between the two.
Posted by: Rick | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 07:54 PM
There is no difference between the two.
Posted by: Rick | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 07:54 PM
hehe.
Mayo's recovery program does not appear to be very successful. When I got sober it was with hard core druggies right out of prison. Me just out of high school. These x cons didn't pull punches when it came to sobriety. Had my folks been able to pay for Mayo, I would have never made it. I give Patches 9 days tops of sobriety. Come to Philly, I'll take you to a Stepping Stones meeting, where nobody gives a damn who you are, what you think you may be. They just want you sober.
Posted by: SinCerely | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 10:01 PM
Driving under the influence of prescriptive drugs??
Oh really!!
So he wasn't drunk after all, - the guys who said he was must have imagined it!!
Posted by: annie | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 01:41 PM