I'll do the funnies later (I have a hot date) but wanted to share this entry from Ferdy, the Conservative Cat, particularly a couple of salient points:

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.