It's The Slime Talking, Not The Drugs
Clever, clever Patrick Kennedy. Here he was, all drugged out of his mind, but mindful enough to say just the right thing to stay out of jail. John Tabin writes in Reason:
Say what you will about Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI): He knows just the B.S. for the occasion. After ramming his green 1997 Ford Mustang convertible into a security barrier on Capitol Hill at 2:45 AM 11 days ago, he explained to Capitol Police that he was "late for a vote." Even in his impaired state (which we'll get to in a minute), Rep. Kennedy knew that he had a Constitutional get-out-of-jail-free card: Article I, Section 6, which says that "United States Senators and Representatives shall in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same." Congress had been out of session for hours, but that didn't stop the Capitol Police from extending special treatment to a staggering and bleary-eyed Kennedy: Instead of the ride to the station for a night in lock-up that the average impaired driver gets, they gave him a ride home.Kennedy issued a statement that he'd been in a car accident, adding, "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident." But then police officers involved in the incident complained through their labor union about the special treatment afforded Rep. Kennedy, whose "eyes were red and watery," according to the police report, which added that his "speech was slightly slurred and, upon exiting his vehicle, his balance was unsure." Rather than cop to drinking, Kennedy claimed he had no memory of the incident because of an interaction between "the prescribed amount of Phenergan and Ambien." The former is an anti-nausea drug which Kennedy was taking for gastroenteritis. The latter is a sleep aid, and is at the center of a panic over "sleep-driving" that Kennedy rather fashionably invoked.
Fairer than blaming the Ambien is blaming the Rhode Island voters for giving this guy a job.
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