Crazy House

Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) may have had a legitimate point even though she probably didn’t realize it until this week.

When McKinney was caught assaulting a Capitol Hill police officer and subsequently played the race card, she was widely denounced and an assault case against her sits--rightly--before a Grand Jury. But what of her colleague, Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI)? Kennedy was recently caught drunk-/high-/being-a-nutjob-/combination-driving by members of that same Capitol Hill police force and merely driven home without having to submit to a sobriety test. And this isn’t Kennedy’s first known display of lawlessness/thuggery. Among several other transgressions, in 2000 he was caught on tape shoving a female, black LAX security guard some thirty years his senior after the lady in question told him that he couldn’t bring an over-sized bag as carry-on luggage. (Good thing for him that this happened before 9/11.) Why was there was no Grand Jury convened for such a boor back then? Is it because he’s white? Or is it because he’s a Kennedy?

An even better question: what are these obviously ill people doing in the House of Representatives?

And a mo' betta question: why doesn't someone tell Kennedy to get rid of that John F. Kennedy (Sr.) hairstyle?

Comments

[Laurence Simon]

"What are these obviously ill people doing in the House of Representatives?"

Equally-ill individuals voting for them, perhaps?

[T-Steel]

My oh my baldilocks! We must have been riding the same cosmic wave this morning cause I was thinking the EXACT same thing about McKinney not knowing she had a point until now. I think the Kennedy Clan membership (which includes being a white dude) has alot to do with this. He should be fleeced just like Ol' McKinney. Personally he needs more fleecing than McKinney because of us hairstyle. At least McKinney's has some unruly flair to it. ;)

As far as the obviously ill in Congress, I think we The Public need to take more vitamin C to get rid of our illness. We vote these wackaroons into office. That's why I always write-in Spongbob Squarepants as my candidate since we don't have a none of the above space. At least ol' Spongebob a fair kinda fella.

[karrde]

Good set of questions.

I suspect that Kennedy got a free ride (and no sobriety test) because the cops weren't under a camera at a public building.

Also, DUI is less offensive to officers than assaulting a police officer.

But DUI is a danger to the public. And no man is above the law.

And by the law, both ought to pay for their deeds. I don't know if it rises to loss of position (or even official censure by their fellows), but it does rise to public denunciation.

[neil]

'Caught assaulting a Capitol Hill police officer?' Give me a fucking break. It was a burst of temper, and you're making it sound like she tried to kill him and didn't finish the job in time.

[jeff]

Definitely being a kennedy has a lot to do with being able to get away with things that average citizens could not. Professional politicians have become the new aristocracy. I firmly believe, as I'm sure you do, that we should make a law (an ammendment!) that once someone is elected to a national office, neither their wives, children, nor siblings should be allowed to ever hold a national office themselves.

[Christopher Taylor]

The kennedies for one reason or another that truly baffles sane humans get a pass on whatever activity they engage in, no matter how shocking or reprehensible. Then they get elected to high office. Even people from Massechusettes can't explain it, they are completely unable to offer up reasons for the constant reelection of Kennedies. Either there is some secret Bostonian reason they won't share, there's severe voter fraud going on, or the people there are just bad-crap insane.

[John Davies]

And it may be something as simple as Patrick Kennedy smiling and calling Capitol Police officers by name as he passes the checkpoint.

[John Gillnitz]

Kennedy should have contracted out with Shirlington Limousine and Transportation like DHS did. He could have gotten a designated driver and a hooker.

[baldilocks]

Outside of some alternate universe of your own hallucinations, neil, 'assault' and 'kill' don't mean the same thing.

[torchy]

And it may be as simple as the association between the name Kennedy and mental illness/substance abuse versus the association between the name McKinney and bizarre militant agendas

[John Costello]

As someone who happens to live nine miles north of Boston, MA, let me try to explain...
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Well, that attempt failed.
However, Paddy Boy happens to represent Rhode Island, so we're not to blame for _him._ As to why Teddy gets the nod every six years, a) name recognition, b) JFK Nostalgia, c) a willingness of liberals to excuse anything no matter how depraved on the part of one of their heroes, d) the total 'feh!'ness of the Republican party here in MA (the local Dems have a very, very well-oiled machine.)
Now part of it is the University population, which means he will win in the People's Republic of Cambridge. And my liberal Jewish friends would _never_ dream of voting for the likes of George Bush, so that gets him Brookline. The rest of the state is more or less evenly divided (we once had a Black Republican Senator, and before Tierney I was represented by a Republican, and hope to be so again if Rick Barton (www.richbarton.us) gets in.

[Mialexa]

Ah the nepotism the Kennedy clan is involved in. Much is made of Bush Sr and Jr's family connections, but you never hear the left critcize it's favorite political family. Rape, murder, mayhem, drunken assaults. Nary a peep about it from the left. If a Republican had engaged in either of the shenanigans perpetrated by McKinney or Kennedy, the press would be bleating fit to break our eardrums!

[Maggie]

From what I understand the Capitol police who originally arrived on the scene are FURIOUS that higher-ups came in to take over in the Kennedy case. They don't believe he should have gotten the ROYAL WHITEWASH.

[Acidman]

Patrick Kennedy is a member of America's royal family. That position comes with a stack of "Get Out Of Jail Free" cards.

[Tully]

Perversely, I think Kennedy would have been in much better (political) shape had he been breathalyzed and DUI'd.

We can forgive a human failing, and forgive any dog one bite. The appearance of special treatment and influence hurts him more than a first DUI would've. (A second DUI is a different story.)

[Aran]

What are these obviously ill people doing in the House of Representatives?

I dunno, what are these obviously delusional people doing in the White House, the DoD and the State Department?

[Laura(southernxyl)]

It may be true that McKinney and Kennedy got different treatment because of race, and if so, that's bad. However, if it is true, then she is the one who was treated properly and he should have had the book thrown at him. So it really doesn't help her. Also, if Kennedy had struck one of the cops who stopped him then the story might be a little different.

[Jay Tea]

As someone who finds both Kennedy and McKinney despicable, let me offer this possible explanation:

McKinney believed that the officer should have known who she was on sight, and treated her with appropriate deference. She insisted that she does not NEED to identify herself, that she should be instantly recognized and given her due. Kennedy, on the other hand, most likely immediately identified himself by name and position.

It also helped matters that Kennedy was in trouble first, THEN the issue of identity arose. In McKinney's case, the identifying issue came up first, THEN the trouble.

But I agree with the general gist; both of 'em should be locked up.

J.

[Joatmoaf]

Why didn't Kennedy get arrested?
Maybe they still remember the futility of it from Mary Jo's case.

[babylonandon]

Juliette, there is a truth here.

A truth that runs thru the vast majority of all of the posts that you have ever made especially those about the issues going on at our southern border.

The truth is that this country that you and I gave a big part of our lives to serve is being slowly but inexorably destroyed by the mad group of elites that has infested the halls of government in Washington. From both parties.

No one who isn't party to betraying WE THE PEOPLE can get elected.

No one (who isn't willing to lie to our faces about representing our interests and who then turns around and sells us out to the highest bidder asn soon as they arrive in DC) is there representing us now.

Bush calls the Minutemen (who are truly representing the ideals that OUR FOUNDING FATHERS FOUGHT AND GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR) a bunch of vigilantes.

Bush needs to be impeached along with EVERY member of CONGRESS and most of the State governments as well.

Dammit Juliette, I consider myself to be a Christian and a Conservative and I have voted Republican for many years and I feel utterly betrayed and ashamed of those who lead this country.

The illegals have had their little snit and waved the putrid flag of their lousy, filthy, thieving miserable excuse for a country.

Now it is time for the rest of us to stand up.

It is time for every AMERICAN to make his or her voice heard. IT is time for us to make ourselves visible to the traitors in Congress and Bush.

I think that all of us should set a date to put our weapon of choice to shoulder and to get millions to march on Washington. Not to start the shooting but to remind the idiots in DC that the ranks of Americans standing with rifle to shoulder outside their windows are the real Americans who'd they'd better listen to...

...before we are forced to come back to drag them into the streets and toss them out like we did the British and reproduce the actions that our Founding Fathers performed when they created this country in the first place.

[Kevin Murphy]

Someone should buy him a private plane.

[adele]

He may have a similar problem as in "Interview with the Vampire". The young vampire cut off her hair, only to have it identically restored in a moment....