This is why it's terrible news for our whole form of government that Patrick Kennedy can fulfill his assigned duties even though he's too stoned to drive a car: our Representatives are so removed from the process of making law that it is no longer possible to judge them by their voting records.
And:
The problem is not that the Kennedy may not know what he's doing; the problem is that his mental state has nothing to do with his job performance.
That's a serious design flaw in the way our government works.
Read the whole thing.
