As
sometimes happens with Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.),
he let his mouth race ahead of his brain Wednesday night
at a gathering of Young Democrats at the Washington
nightspot Acropolis. After presidential candidate
Howard Dean spoke, Kennedy delivered an impassioned
peroration against President Bush's tax cut. The
Washington Post reported that Kennedy told the crowd: "I
don't need Bush's tax cut. I have never worked a
[bleeping] day in my life." With
that he got the audience's attention -- the
dropping-jaws kind. "He droned on and on, frequently
mentioning how much better the candidates would sound
the more we drank," a witness told the Post. "Finally,
he had to be stopped by a DNC volunteer." Kennedy's
spokesman, Ernesto Anguilla, told the Post
yesterday: "He was talking to the crowd; it was a
rally-the-troops kind of speech about the tax cut. He
was energizing the crowd and got caught up in it and
used an unfortunate word, which he regrets using. . . .
And no one pulled him off the stage."
EXTRA
At a recent roast, Patrick Kennedy, an
admitted former cokehead joked about Senator Lincoln
Chafee (R-R.I.), another admitted former cokehead: "Now
when I hear someone talking about a Rhode Island
politician whose father was a senator and who got to
Washington on his family name, used cocaine, and wasn't
very smart, I know there is only a 50-50 chance it's
me."
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