Not even Rush Limbaugh dared to criticize Sen. Edward Kennedy about his ongoing battle with brain cancer, a chronic disease.

But it didn't take much for some narrow-minded critics to jump all over Kennedy's son Patrick when the congressman from Rhode Island announced this week that he was seeking treatment again for another chronic illness, addiction.

"At some point, we've got to say, when is enough enough?" Giovanni Cicione, chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Par ...

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