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September 23, 2006
Patrick Kennedy: Socialize Decadence
Patrick Kennedy, Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island and son of the infamous Chappaquiddick Ted, has found a new way to spend our money: forcing insurance companies to provide treatment for his fellow substance abusers. The costs as always will be passed along to you and me.
You may recall that last May a profoundly intoxicated Pat Kennedy crashed his car into a security barrier near the U.S. Capitol. Explanations that he provided for his behavior include:
- He had to hurry to the Capitol to vote, though it was 2:45 AM.
- It's all a mystery because he couldn't remember any of it.
- It was the fault of drug companies for selling him Ambien.
Another possible explanation was provided by witnesses who saw him guzzling liquor at a local bar.
Being a Kennedy, he had no trouble evading the repercussions that would ensue if any normal citizen were to behave with such criminal recklessness. But it's not enough that he didn't have to pay. He wants us to pay.
According to Kennedy, people have no control over whether they get messed up and then get behind the wheel. Blissfully unencumbered by even a modicum of self-respect, he bleats:
I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.
His "illness" is just like asthma or any other physical illness, and has nothing to do with him being a spoilt and dissipated guy who finds that mustering the will power to control his own behavior is just too hard. Consequently, he demands that Congress pass "mental health parity" — which apparently means that neuroses and character flaws must be treated like actual real illnesses.
Indulging in the usual self-parodic liberal demagoguery, Kennedy declared that mandatory medical coverage for personal shortcomings is part of the "unfinished agenda for civil rights," because the dissolute are "discriminated against for an illness, a physical illness."
The effect this would have on health care costs is not hard to predict. Its effect on the economy and society in general when Democrats succeed in socializing medicine will be catastrophic. A culture in which feeling blue or liking your liquor qualifies you as a special victim to be financed by everyone else will inevitably rot away into a subspecies of penniless Pat Kennedys.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 23, 2006 11:23 AM
Comments
"I have an addiction. I have a mental illness"
Looks to me like the voters in Rhode Island are the ones with the mental illness, electing a mook like this.
And if this guy is an addict with a mental illness, why is he allowed to hold an office of public trust and make decisions for the nation?
Posted by: Uchuck the Tuchuk at September 23, 2006 1:41 PM
He's got a genetic disease. Kennedy drunken lout syndrome, passed down from Joe through the entire clan of drunks, perverts, murderers, and assorted louts.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 23, 2006 2:31 PM
I found my Monday morning caption pic. He'll look great next to Bra-less Streisand.
Posted by: V the K at September 23, 2006 5:56 PM
As a recovering alcoholic (20 years sober, one day at a time) I consider the actions and rationalizations of this p**** a slap in the face to anyone who earnestly tries to combat their addiction. Here's a hint Patty boy, it all starts with getting honest and taking responsibility for your actions. Nobody forces you or any other drunk to get sloshed. Hit a meeting kid, go early, stay late, sit in the front, pull the cotton out of your ears & stick it in your mouth. That'll be good for a start!
And oh by the way, taking responsibility includes YOU paying for your treatment and the consequences of your behavior.
Posted by: Subvet at September 24, 2006 5:09 AM
Speaking of throwbacks, what to make of this?
Then, last week, came news of Selam, the tiny remains of the world’s oldest infant skeleton, discovered just 2½ miles from the teenage Lucy’s remains, in the badlands of northern Ethiopia.
Selam (the name means peace) lived about 200,000 years before Lucy. About three years old when she died, we can already build up a picture of this little scrap’s life.
"Lucy" was so named because the anthropologists who discovered her were listening to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" at the time -- gotta wonder what they were listening to this time around.
And no doubt this apparent attempt to suck up to Islam will not go unpunished by those it's intended to flatter. I mean, come on...these guys call Jews "sons of monkeys", and they're going to appreciate having an ape-man named in their honor?
Posted by: prince of leaves at September 24, 2006 11:01 AM
Another name for his 'mental illness' is called liberalism.
Posted by: bored at September 25, 2006 8:41 AM
I did not know that the drug addick and drunk was out of rehab or did he ever go, but this is the way we must treat all of our little boys born with siver spoons in their mouth and faulty brain wiring, who becomes psycopath,s democrats we must make them democrat liberal senators and congressman and allow them to do what ever they want to with no accountability to any one that is the liberal democrat way.
Posted by: gene at September 25, 2006 9:11 AM
The Service Employees International Union already has this coverage as part of its contracts. It is difficult to fire drunks and addicts under these contracts.
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Posted by: chsw10605 at September 25, 2006 5:03 PM
