More than a decade ago, I profiled Patrick Kennedy for NR. The headline of the story, taken from a nickname given to him by a local radio talker, always has been one of my favorites: “Congressboy.” It was written at a time when Kennedy’s star was on the rise. Since then, it has fallen. This line is wrong: “Today, Patrick’s bad habits seem a thing of the past.” Or if they were a thing of the past when I wrote them, they were nevertheless a part of the future.