Had slipped my mind until a friend pointed it out, but Ambien, the same drug which may have contributed to Patrick Kennedy’s all-night voting spree, has a few other significant users in Washington.

(And btw, let’s at least pay tribute to the fact that when this Kennedy is gorked out of his dome, his instinct apparently isn’t for carousing with starlets, but to drive to the Capitol and vote — frankly, America could use more drug addicts like this.)

Back in the now-forgotten distant murky past — November 2003, to be exact — this is what Colin Powell had to say about Ambien:

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