"I'm not as think as you drunk I am..."

UPDATE #2: Um, now he says he can't remember a thing and is checking himself into the Mayo Clinic! Rep Kennedy seeks drug abuse help

UPDATE: Read his explanation (which really doesn't help his cause much) here: Kennedy Blames Accident on Sleep Medicine

Seems these Kennedy boys just don't know how to drive... as Roll Call reports, and as Drudge highlights with his trademark flashing siren: KENNEDY CAR CRASH COVER-UP?

This time, it's Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-Rhode Island).

After nearly crashing into a police cruiser and then smashing into a barricade,

"“The driver exited the vehicle and he was observed to be staggering,” Baird’s letter states. Officers approached the driver, who “declared to them he was a Congressman and was late to a vote. The House had adjourned nearly three hours before this incident. It was Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy from Rhode Island.”"

Baird wrote that Capitol Police Patrol Division units, who are trained in driving under the influence cases, were not allowed to perform basic field sobriety tests on the Congressman. Instead, two sergeants, who also responded to the accident, proceeded to confer with the Capitol Police watch commander on duty and then “ordered all of the Patrol Division Units to leave the scene and that they were taking over.”

Apparently this is nothing new for Rep. Kennedy as the article reports: "This morning's incident comes just over two weeks after Kennedy was involved in a car accident in Rhode Island."

As usual, Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.