Sydney Blumenthal: Hillary’s Drunk Driving Useful Idiot

Hillary’s senior adviser (and her attack dog back when Bubba was President) Sydney Blumenthal is (or should be) in serious legal shit for driving while intoxicated.

Sometimes bad things happen to bad people…

Of course, since he’s “somebody” — you know, like Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie — this will quietly and quickly go away with less media coverage than the current success in Iraq is getting…

From the Newsweek Blog (via Nice Deb):

Sydney Blumenthal, an unpaid senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, was arrested in Nashua on the eve of the and charged with aggravated DWI, according two members of the Nashua police force.

Sgt. Mike Masella, one of the arresting officers, said the movements of a Buick caught his eye. “I observed all his erratic driving,” Masella said. “When I first noticed him it was at an intersection. He abruptly stopped. That caught my eye … He was drifting in his lane.” Masella followed the car, a rental, for a mile and a half, and clocked its speed at 70mph in a 30mph zone–more than twice the legal limit. Masella pulled the car over at 12:30 a.m. Monday morning. Blumenthal told the officer he was returning to his hotel from a restaurant in Manchester. After declining to take a Breathalyzer, Masella says, Blumenthal failed a field sobriety test. Blumenthal was handcuffed, booked, had his fingerprints taken and was held for four hours–standard operating procedure in such arrests in New Hampshire–before posting bail and being released.

I don’t know how any man could spend that much time around Hillary without a few drinks. And the fact that he’s an “unpaid” adviser? Shit, I’d be going through two or three bottles of Irish whiskey a day to tolerate that fate…

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UPDATE

The Smoking Gun has Sydney’s mug shot, and also reports that he was doing 70 mph in a 30 mph zone when he was pulled over.