Kennedy Car Crash Coverup?

Posted on May 4, 2006

Update: Might have been a little booze after all.
Like father like son? The Blogosphere is going wild with this one folks! The jokes are going to be too easy.

Via Drudge

Officers Claim Brass Interfered in Investigation of Rep. Kennedy Incident, ROLL CALL reports… MORE… Police labor union officials asked acting Chief Christopher McGaffin this afternoon to allow a Capitol Police officer to complete his investigation into an early-morning car crash involving Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.).
According to a letter sent by Officer Greg Baird, acting chairman of the USCP FOP, the wreck took place at approximately 2:45 a.m. Thursday when Kennedy’s car, operating with its running lights turned off, narrowly missed colliding with a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a security barricade at First and C streets Southeast.

“The driver exited the vehicle and he was observed to be staggering,” Baird’s letter states. Officers approached the driver, who “declared to them he was a Congressman and was late to a vote. The House had adjourned nearly three hours before this incident. It was Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy from Rhode Island.”

Michelle Malkin has posted copies of the police report from a seperate Pat Kennedy car crash from two weeks ago. You should see the handwriting. Texas Rainmaker compares it to his regular handwriting. Wow!

Iowa Voice: What is it with the Kennedys when they get behind the wheel of a car??

The Political Pitbull: So there you are folks, proof that history does, in fact, repeat itself.

Donkey Stomp: Some apples just don’t fall far from the tree.

GOP and the City: Stop me if you have heard this one before… Kennedy gets drunk. Kennedy crashes car. Kennedy tries to cover up.

Confederate Yankee: Odds are than any questionable involvement by either Patrick Kennedy or his father Ted—if indeed there was any—can and probably would disappear faster than a bottle of Maker’s Mark down Ted’s fleshy gullet.

Ace: A sentence containing the words Kennedy, drunk, vehicle mishap, and police cover-up is pure gibberish making no earthly sense whatsoever.

Allah: I’m woozy from the comic possibilities.

Expose The Left, as always…has video.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller: Thankfully, nobody was drowned this time.

Cranky Insomniac: has a top ten reasons why list.

Point Five: introduces the game of Kennedopoly.

Kennedy blames it on medication, but I guess we will never know since there wasn’t a breathalizer. Regardless, that is no excuse. Like Don Surber says….

The law (at least in west Virginia) states a driver should not drive under the influence of anything that impairs his judgment. Being impaired by prescription medications is not an excuse. Mitigating under some circumstances, but no excuse. Adults are responsible for the medications they take or fail to take.

Why is the guy taking sleep medication and then driving?

Rhielworld View reports on another strange Kennedy incident.
Uncle Tim’s Bargain Basement: Boy oh boy is Ann Coulter gonna have a ball with this one!

Bad Hair Blog knows whats up.

Late to a vote? One would think that answer showed he was drunk, but he was claiming something else: More like claiming diplomatic Constitutional immunity.

Geez, according to the press conference, he doesn’t remember the incident at all. He really does have issues. Video also at Media Crunch

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4 Responses to “Kennedy Car Crash Coverup?”

Gribbit on May 4th, 2006 7:47 pm

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree does it. I know why he claimed that he was on his way to a House vote at 3:00 am. Members of Congress cannot be arrested in the Capital, on the grounds, or on their way to or from the Capital. That is in Article I of the United States Constitution.
otto on May 4th, 2006 9:48 pm

Deja-vu lite?

Think both Kennedy’s woke up this morning and went “D’oh!”?
CaptainRational on May 5th, 2006 12:04 am

Anh… I’ll take a drunk Kennedy over a sober Bush any day of the week.
kerwin_brown on May 5th, 2006 2:03 am

I liked the fact that he also had another event where he hit a black airport security guard. I wonder why I didn’t hear more about that event. That and him getting treated better by the Capitol police him Cynthia McKinney appears racist. I wonder if Jesse Jackson will weigh in or is he just interest in the Duke Scandal?