Like Father (Ted) - Like Son (Patrick)

It's just a different level of accountability and laws that apply when your a Kennedy............Ted's son Patrick Kennedy who is a dem US Rep from R.I. crashed his car bad in Washington early this AM (2:45AM) after almost hitting police. It appears pretty clear that the fruit does not fall very far from the tree and that Patrick got his driving lessons from dear old dad. Also, it very obvious that Patrick is connected like dear old dad and those connections attempted to give him a shot of getting out of a very serious matter. Via Drudge:

ROLL CALL reports: 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.”

Baird wrote that Capitol Police Patrol Division units, who are trained in driving under the influence cases, were not allowed to perform basic field sobriety tests on the Congressman. Instead, two sergeants, who also responded to the accident, proceeded to confer with the Capitol Police watch commander on duty and then “ordered all of the Patrol Division Units to leave the scene and that they were taking over.”

A source tells the DRUDGE REPORT: "It was apparent that the driver was intoxicated (stumbling) and claimed he was in a hurry to make a vote. "When it became apparent who it was, instead of processing a normal DWI, the watch commander had the Patrol units clear the scene. The commander allowed other building officials drive Kennedy home."

Like father like son, but at least Patrick did not kill a companion in his impaired accident, I suppose. No one has a law that applies to them alone like the Kennedy's................................no one................................