The Apple and The Tree

Seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, according to The Rant at Capitol Hill Blue:

Been there, heard that, didn't buy the excuse

By DOUG THOMPSON

My, my. Another Kennedy bombed out of his gourd crawls into a car and crashes. How original.

But U.S. Rep. Patrick Kenney's pathetic tale of getting stoned on prescription medication and crashing his car into a Capitol Hill barrier at 2:45 a.m. because he thought he needed to vote on the House floor sounds a lot like the many different excuses his daddy used many years ago to try and explain his drunken behavior the night he drove off a bridge and swam to safety while one of his girlfriends drowned.

Capitol Police officers say their superiors ordered them to stop investigating the accident and to drive the stoned Patrick Kenney home. Their bosses refused to allow a sobriety test on young Kennedy. Kennedy was cited for three minor traffic violations but, without a sobriety test, he evaded charges for the more serious infraction of driving under the influence.

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