Patrick Kennedy Freaks Out on House Floor

The cut-and-run Congressthing from Rhode Island launches into a spittle-flecked meltdown over the paucity of media coverage of House members looking to cut and run from Afghaninstan.

Uh, Patches, you want to know why so few media were there? Because it was just some far left kooks such as yourself and Dennis Kucinich braying about in opposition to your president, while Republicans were saluting Obama and the media doesn't want to show the one being opposed by members of his own party.

The resolution led to an unusual three-hour debate on war policy, one of the few formal House floor sessions on Afghanistan since the U.S. sent troops there in 2001 following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Some Republicans passionately praised Obama for his policies on Afghanistan during the debate, while many liberal Democrats angrily denounced the continuing U.S. involvement there, although most refrained from attacking Obama directly. Neither party's leadership formally instructed their members to take one side or the other in the debate as they do on most important votes.

"The military escalation cements the path of the United States down the road of previous occupiers that earned Afghanistan its nickname as the 'graveyard of empires," said Kucinich.

Good thing for his own mental health Kennedy is leaving Congress. A few more tantrums like this and he might have a seizure.