Did Patrick Kennedy do anything wrong? I understand that he took medication as prescribed for him, legally by the presumably reputable Attending Physician to the United States Congress.

Kennedy had an atypical reaction, but one that is documented in the literature. He accepted responsibility for not being aware of the danger of the combination of the two drugs, and is dealing with it.

How in blue blazes does that compare to what Rush did?

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However; there is a massive difference between someone becoming addicted to “recreational drugs” and someone becoming addicted to pain medication which was under the care of a doctor. I still hold that be the case…. including for Kennedy.

If, in fact, Kennedy is telling the truth here, (and leaving aside the question of his smelling like he’d been drinking, and reports from two different bartenders in two different bars that he had been a patron of each of them that evening…) if his addiction to the pain medication in question was in fact the cause of the apparent ‘loss of control’, shall we say, then the man deserves at least a modicum of support. It is fair to say that under such conditions he would not have arrived at that juncture by choice, as would someone addicted to ‘recreational drugs’.

However, let’s ask now, as we saw asked by the left regards Mr. Limbaugh, just which medication he did become addicted to, and where it was he got his supply from.

I seem to recall Mr. Limbaugh being chased for months and years over an alleged incident of doctor shopping. It was alleged that Mr. Limbaugh are used this method to obtain the drug that he was addicted to. Did Mr. Kennedy?

Consider this carefully… Any doctor who would have Mr. Kennedy in his care, would certainly have been aware of his being in a rehab for his addiction, wouldn’t you say? Unless, perchance, he went to another doctor, who didn’t know is case very well, and yet was willing to write out a prescription .

Why have no such questions come up from the press as regards Mr. Kennedy? Why are the legal authorities in the area is represented by Mr. Kennedy not looking into this? One possible reason, of course, is that they, too, are Democrats.

Further, why is it that we’re not hearing about which medication that Mr. Kennedy became addicted to? Is it possible that Mr. Kennedy became addicted to the very same medication that Mr. Limbaugh did? If so we would seem to have been even more glaring double standard then we started with.

And again, all this assumes that Mr. Kennedy is telling the truth, that his addiction to painkillers medications and not alcohol was the cause of the last couple of accidents that he’s on record as having caused. This would seem to be a rather large and unwarranted assumption.

In either case, whether Mr. Kennedy is telling the truth or not, Mr. Kennedy should resign, or be forcibly removed from his office, being unfit for the position… beacuse… again, in either case…several laws have been broken and need to be enforced.

If the people that were grave dancing as regards Mr. Limbaugh are being honest and truthful they will join me in calling for Mr. Kennedy’s ouster , prosecution, and jailing. Just like they did Rush.

Funny, isn’t it, how this ‘fairness and consiatncy’ thing works?

Substance addiction has no more to do with character than diabetes does. However, how the substance abuser comports himself before, during and after the public revelation of his addiction speaks to the individuals character.

Limbaugh’s words and actions have spoken volumes to his lack of any character. Kennedy? Time will tell.

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and conveniences, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr

We’re all being “re-educated” by the right wingnuts, including Rushie baby, to believe up is down, right is left, unprovable creationism is comparable to provable science, or that Rushie bag is not a lying hypocritical junkie.

Yep, according to these wingnuts, all Americans need is a little “re-education” through the Republican-controlled MSM, in public schools, at the Air Force Academy, over the radio airwaves, and America can return to the Republican glory days of Eisenhower, or maybe the Republican glory days before the New Deal, or maybe the Republican glory days before the Civil War, or maybe the Republican/Tory/Aristocratic days before that pesky U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights passed.

Sorry, I’m too old to be fooled and too ornery to be “re-educated” into believing that a bunch of totalitarian assholes are something other than totalitarian assholes, hell-bent on destroying our democracy so they can really go Communist on us and actually build “re-education camps,” which would probably cost $385 million and involve a no-bid Halliburton contract. Oooops.

It seems P* Kennedy was left on his own and that was not fair to him. It’s the way those managed healthcare type doctors operate. They have insurance companies telling them to prescribe the meds and get on with it. Well look what happens? I hope Kennedy recovers and gets back to Congress to work on the parity stuff, I really do

On a serious note, it is not good medical practice to prescribe morphine derivatives as analgesics for chronic conditions over a long term.