Messa: Dems Outsed Me For Health care Vote

[red states rule]

Are Dems eating their own?





Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) says the House ethics committee is investigating him for inappropriate comments he made to a male staffer on New Year's Eve — and that he's the victim of a power play by Democratic leaders who want him out of Congress because he's a "no" vote on health care reform.

"Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill," Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. "And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots."

Massa insisted that he did not know the basis of a House ethics committee investigation into his conduct until after he announced his retirement last Wednesday, and he took House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to task for going public with information related to the probe before it is completed

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34051.html#ixzz0hb95qd7w

[Monkeybone]

so we will kick someone out... force them to retire.. over a comment... but not money and taxes? gee.. hmm...

[glockmail]

Rahm Emanuel has been accused of a lot of things during his political career, but today one outgoing congressman may have topped all insults.

“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn,” disgraced Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY ) said during a radio show. “He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”

The radio diatribe is posted on Real Clear Politics.com.

Massa quit the House this week amid an ethics probe looking into some inappropriate comments he made to a staffer that carried with them sexual overtones.

The congressman willfully resigned, but now says the White House engineered the ethics probe because he vowed to vote against the health care bill.

“I was set up for this from the very, very beginning,” he said onWKPQ 105.3 FM in New York. “You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what’s going on in Washington, D.C.”

During the radio-show monologue Massa said Emanuel cursed him out like nobody’s business for voting against the president’s health care bill last year.

But that's not the end of his Rahm tirade.

"Let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel," Massa said on the program. "I was a congressman in my first eight weeks; I was in the congressional gym, I went down and I worked out and I went into the showers ... I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, and he starts poking a finger in my chest yelling at me because I wasn't going to vote for the president's budget.

"Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?"

Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Massa-Rahm-Would-Strap-His-Children-to-a-Locamotive-for-a-Vote-86880847.html#ixzz0hbtyAVzp

[krisy]

This is very interesting! Massa will be on with Glenn Beck tomorrow for the full hour. I wouldn't miss it after hearing some of this stuff. No suprise about Rahm Emanuel. I saw him on an ABC(I think) special in the White House where they followed everyone around and boy did he come off like a giant a$$hole!:thumb:

[cat slave]

You know? Airing someones dirty laundry doesnt negate
what is going on in WA. Actually, dirty laundry is pitiful
in the light of an out of control government and a Marxist
prez.

Looking forward to November more each day. Payback time.

Looking forward to Beck tomorrow, too.

[KarlMarx]

You know? Airing someones dirty laundry doesnt negate
what is going on in WA. Actually, dirty laundry is pitiful
in the light of an out of control government and a Marxist
prez.

Looking forward to November more each day. Payback time.

Looking forward to Beck tomorrow, too.

This reminds me of the classic movie "Battleship Potemkin", except instead of a Communist uprising, we're going to have a conservative uprising... long live the Conservative Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euG1y0KtP_Q

[red states rule]

Massa did not think much of Emanuel when he was running for Congress

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[red states rule]

You knw Messa is getting his message out when the Washington Post does a hit piece on him




Former congressman Massa says Democrats set him up over health care

By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Conservative activists rallied Monday to the side of a liberal New York Democrat who had resigned from the House, after he charged that his party's leaders had conspired to oust him over his opposition to President Obama's health-care legislation

Eric Massa's resignation Monday came after an ethics investigation into his conduct, and allegations of sexual harassment of staffers, became public. And his remarks on a Sunday radio show were only the latest in a series of explanations of why he was leaving the House.

Nevertheless, conservative blogs touted his accusations against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) as the latest evidence of Democrats' bare-knuckled political machinations to get a health-care bill to Obama's desk.

Conservatives have complained about other examples of what they see as illegitimate deal-making to secure votes: what they call the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the "Louisiana Purchase" in the Senate to line up Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.), respectively, and Obama's appointment last week of a Utah professor -- the brother of Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah), an opponent of the health bill -- to the federal appeals bench.

Massa's allegation that he was the victim of a setup, in order to lower the number of "yes" votes needed to pass a bill, fed into that growing anxiety about Democratic tactics.

His comments spread quickly online, promoted by conservative blogs such as Red State and National Review Online.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030804914.html?hpid=topnews

[avatar4321]

Watch Glenn tonight and youll see him on.

[Abbey Marie]

Boy, that big tent is getting smaller and smaller. :rolleyes:

[red states rule]

Watch Glenn tonight and youll see him on.

Here is how TIME saw the interview. Typical POV from the liberal media




The Massa Circus Takes the Air Out of Glenn Beck

In the course of his remarkable rise from cable sideshow to Fox News superstar, Glenn Beck has never really faced a serious challenge.

To a man and woman, his opponents only made him stronger, strengthening his every-guy-against-the-world image and putting some meat on the bones of his near-paranoid ravings about dark forces aligning against liberty, and himself. When cornered, he only became more vulnerable, more tearful and, at least to his fervent followers, more likable.

But on Tuesday night, Beck faced a foe unlike any other, a pasty, disgraced former one-term Democratic congressman from New York, Eric Massa, who had resigned only hours earlier amid an ethics inquiry into allegations he had groped and sexually harassed some of his male employees over the years. Massa, who has maintained that his main reason for not running for re-election in the fall is a recurrence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, arrived in the Fox studios with an X-ray of his own chest and a photo album of pictures from his Navy service that, he announced, "looks like an orgy in Caligula." "I'm going to show you a lot more than tickle fights," Massa told Beck, leaving the host, for a precious moment, speechless.

Massa had come on Fox to out-Beck Glenn Beck. Armed with the very same weapons — a deep sense of victimhood, outrage at the powers that be and remarkable personal candor — the representative delivered a dizzying confessional. He admitted to sexless groping and tickling of his staff, sending inappropriate text messages and otherwise failing to behave like a Congressman should, all as he made his case that his fellow Democrats had really gone after him because of his previous no vote on health care reform. "I can't fight this. I can't fight cancer," Massa announced, in a classic stream of consciousness ramble. "I can't fight the White House. I can't fight the Democratic Party."



Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1970982,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0hm6SyYno