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Thursday, May 04, 2006Are you a Kennedy?Lots of people wonder if, maybe, they're Kennedys. The TurkeyBlog is happy to offer a special test to help. 1. At around 2 a.m., drive to a carefully guarded government building. 2. Turn off your lights. 3. Weave between lanes a little bit. 4. Narrowly miss a police cruiser, then slam into a security barrier outside the carefully guarded government building. 5. Claim you're late for work and they have to let you go. Did you wake up in jail? Sorry, you're not a Kennedy. Did you wake up in your own bed, the police having driven you home without even performing a sobriety test? You might just be a Kennedy! I love those Kennedys. Paragons of the working class, always shoulder to shoulder with the little guy. It's like they're one of us. For the record, I have known people - elected people - who came off better or worse when things like this happened. And I know life ain't easy for Pat right now. But it's a lot easier than were his name Joe Nobody and his occupation were bartender. Remember this story the next time you see any rep or senator talking about the need to hold people accountable for their actions. Remember how reflexively this rep invoked a rule whose purpose was to keep our institutions free and prevent the government from locking up opposition leaders when things got dicey. Remember, when Senator Kennedy thumps on Bush about abridging the Constitution, just how casually his younger fellow Kennedy used our Constitutional safeguards against the abuse of power for the sake of avoiding the law. When we fight a drug war, nobodies with joints go to jail because they had them, no matter how, where or under what circumstances. But when the powerful get close enough to the Capitol, the law ceases to apply, apparently. Kennedy, of course, should now be left alone. He played the same game most anyone with his power, privilege and background would have. But if Congress doesn't take action to clarify the role of the Capitol Police in such situations in the future, and if the individual members don't speak out about how embarrassed they are that they have let things come to this, with the Capitol Police assuming they're supposed to make these things go away, we will know that the whole institution is as rotten as the Kennedy Clan. One more reason to throw the bums out. 
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