More drunken Kennedys

This should be blazing through the conservative blogs by morning, if it's not already. On one hand it's just careless stupid stuff compared to corruption and selling our country. On the hand it's careless and stupid.

I don't know why we tolerate these huge lapses of judgment from elected officials. GWB hit a tree drunk driving in his youth too. They can revoke doctors' medical licenses for DUI, but we still elect these people as President, Congressman, or Senator.

Maybe if we made them do this they'd straighten out.

A successful plastic surgeon got 1 DUI. He was cleared by BF. He got second opinions from several other addiction/psych MDs clearing him, saying he was no threat and had no substance issues. He paid tens of thousands of dollars (as he could afford it) in his defense. When he went to the diversion board he got the same deal as everyone else. 5 full years of diversion. 7 meetings a week. 4 monthly urines. 3-6 months inpatient rehab (which I will have to be doing soon, regardless of how many MD and PhD specialists have stated that I have no substance problems, require no treatment or rehab, and am not even a candidate for diversion).

These doctors all had DUIs outside work. Some of them were 1st year med students at the time. 1 DUI = 3 months of inpatient rehab?! Craziness. It costs them hundreds of dollars a month for 5 years too. The way these doctors are penalized is excessive and wrong...but at the same time I really wish we could apply 1/10th of their sentence to our government officials.