(Kennedy) Politics as Usual?

From mercurynews.com this morning:
Police say they were prevented from giving Kennedy a sobriety test:

“WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy wrecked his car in an early morning accident on Capitol Hill Thursday, and police say supervisors stopped them from giving him a sobriety test.

“Two police union officials, who were not at the scene, complained that the Rhode Island congressman and son of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., looked like he’d been drinking after crashing into a barrier near the Capitol building at 2:45 a.m.

“‘The driver exited the vehicle and he was observed to be staggering,’ Officer Greg Baird, the acting head of the Capitol police union, wrote in a letter to his boss, according to the newspaper Roll Call.

“Lou Cannon, president of the Washington chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, said Kennedy looked intoxicated.…”