Perhaps you’ve heard that Eric Massa (D-NY) has become embroiled in a sex scandal in his first term in Congress, and that he’s leaving office because of this sex scandal. If the claims in the scandal are true, Massa needs to go. But I have to question how and why the scandal got publicized. After all, he’s a Democrat and these sorts of scandals are very often covered up so long as the Democrat is doing what the left want him to do. So, did he leave the leftist reservation? You bet he did.
Here’s a small portion of Massa’s (D-NY) blast, as transcribed by NBC Chicago:
“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?”
You can hear Massa himself saying it here.
But that’s not all. That’s not nearly all. Not by a long shot. There is a lot more fury from this Democrat Congressman aimed at ObamaNation’s front man, Rahm Emanuel. Again, from the above-linked NBC Chicago transcription:
“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.
Massa said Rahm called him and cursed him out for voting against ObamaCare and that Massa told Rahm to do things that are anatomically impossible. Then Massa said he told Rahm to start over. “Let’s pretend you’re the White House Chief of Staff and let’s pretend I’m a Congressman.” Or something along those lines. Rahm told Massa that Massa had crossed the line with his language, to which Massa retorted “you already crossed that line first” or matters to that effect.
Massa continued by saying the union bosses said he would not get any union money unless he voted for ObamaCare and then asked the rhetorical question whether that was a bribe or no. And there’s much more to what Massa said, and was very much recorded live (except my meager google skills can’t find the whole thing I heard).
Massa very much blasted the Chicago machine that is in corrupt control. Massa very much blasted other corrupt machines which are also in control with ObamaNation. And Massa, the NY Democrat, is being Alinskyed in order to further the Obama Agenda.
Granted, if Massa did what is reported he did, he needs to go. But it’s the reason those on the left are airing Massa’s deeds that is the more egregious. There is massive corruption, massive arm-breaking, massive politics of personal destruction involved in the political assassination of Massa.
UPDATE: Lady Libertas has more. And, again, she is not necessarily singing Massa’s praise. But she does have popcorn.
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Cross Posted on Truth Before Dishonor
It’s going to be a very ugly long next 1,050 days. This is making Carter look good.
Rahm’s on his way out. Here’s the best replacement for him: http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/replace-rahm-me-open-letter-michael-m
Here is what Massa said about his resignation: “Massa admits to using inappropriate language but doesn’t get anymore specific, saying, “My difficulties are of my own making. Period. I am also aware that blogs and radio will have a field day with this in today’s destructive and unforgiving political environment.”"
I guess he was right about the blogs, as John couldn’t resist.
I don’t recall John making such a fuss about Mark Foley (R-FL), nor Yorkshire either. I wonder why? Not a double standard here, is there?
I wonder why it is Perry demands such even-handedness from everyone … but himself??
Perry, you are ignoring the fact that Massa (D-NY) is being totally trashed by Rahm (D-Chicago) and the entire Obama (D-Chicago) machine and the rest of the (D-Lib) machine, including the (D-UNION) machine, for political benefit. You cannot honestly deny that fact so you totally ignore that fact, as is your MO.
John, that many are angry with Massa is not an issue. I’m just calling you out on your double standard, which is quite obvious. Massa is certainly an easy person to dislike, which he has admitted, which I quoted, btw.
You’re not calling me out on anything, Perry, except ghosts in your own mind. And, in fact, I highly doubt you actually bothered to read everything I wrote. And I know you have ignored massive amounts of my commentary here in order to make your wholly dishonest accusation.
What is quite obvious is your refusal to see or hear that which you do not want to see or hear.
Doing a quick research of the Mark Foley scandal, I see it took place in 2006. I did not arrive on CSPT until 2009. Of course, Perry, that fact is irrelevant in your attacks. Also, I don’t remember your presence here when I arrived. According to my memory, you arrived here after I did.
I read that Massa was going to rescind his resignation; now he’s not. I was hoping against hope that he would. Limbaugh described how Rahm is a while back so I believe everything Massa said. This administration is so low they have to reach up to touch bottom.
Imagine if Yorkie acted like the ObamaNation (D-Chicago) corrupt politicians are doing now. Yorkie wouldn’t have needed a doctor to amputate his leg; he’d have eaten it off himself.
Perry wrote:
Given that the events surrounding Mr Foley occurred in 2006, when neither Mr Hitchcock nor you were on this poor site, it’s little wonder that you don’t recall anything about it. However, there were articles on this site concerning the Foley affair, here and here and here and here, articles which weren’t exactly favorably disposed toward Mr Foley.
As for Eric Massa, sorry, but I have little sympathy for a man who lets himself get pushed around like he claims Rahm Emanuel did to him and then cries about it in public. If a man gets in my face and starts yelling like that, I’ll tell him when and where and how he can get the fornicate off.
Mr Massa was an elected official; Mr Emanuel didn’t have the power to fire him, so Mr Massa had nothing to fear. What was Mr Emanuel going to do, hit him? (Well, maybe: Rahm Emanuel was once an Israeli soldier! But all that would have done was to get Mr Emanuel unemployed.) What he allegedly did was to do trash that got himself fired, and now he wants to try to deflect some of the blame for himself.
I don’t as a rule condone violence, but when some punk starts physically assaulting you while you are naked and in a shower …
John Hitchcock:
Imagine if Yorkie acted like the ObamaNation (D-Chicago) corrupt politicians are doing now. Yorkie wouldn’t have needed a doctor to amputate his leg; he’d have eaten it off himself.
Or throw it the snowblower
Massa will be on Beck on Tuesday 5pm EST. Should be interesting.
Rahm is about two steps below a mob boss/enforcer. IMO, what Rahm did to Massa is nothing short of extortion. Unfortunately Massa didn’t realize his manhood was chopped off until after it happened.
This is just getting uglier and uglier.
If this was the movie “The Godfather,” Massa would have had a horse’s head on his bed in the morning.
Rep. Eric Massa caved to Democratic Party pressure Friday, announcing in a message awash with self-reproach and shame that he’s quitting to avoid a sexual harassment investigation.
Massa, a western New York freshman, also insisted he’s stepping down because of cancer, but ethics officials are looking into a male staffer’s complaint he was made “uncomfortable” by Massa.
The 24-year Navy vet and Annapolis grad had planned to finish his term and maintained if he committed harassment, it was only inadvertent “salty” language.
“An ethics investigation would tear my family and my staff apart,” he said, alternately blaming himself and the “incredibly toxic atmosphere in Washington” for his predicament.
“This ethics issue is my fault and mine alone,” and “I own this reality,” he wrote on his House Web site.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/06/2010-03-06_upstate_dem_quits_house_in_sex_scandal.html#ixzz0hdZv5oNp
Strange, but the ethical treatment Massa is being persecuted for is this: but ethics officials are looking into a male staffer’s complaint he was made “uncomfortable” by Massa. Funny how this makes a Congressman forced to quit, yet Barney Frank lives in a world of immunity. Oh, that’s right, Bawney voted to take the country down with the expense of Healthcare and become like Iceland and Greece.
Rahm is about two steps below a mob boss/enforcer. IMO, what Rahm did to Massa is nothing short of extortion. Unfortunately Massa didn’t realize his manhood was chopped off until after it happened.
This is just getting uglier and uglier.
Not quite as ugly as other things that Obama is complicit in. Why exactly are you not dingning him on helping to cover up these crimes, which are far worse?
Phoenician in a time of Romans:
Rahm is about two steps below a mob boss/enforcer. IMO, what Rahm did to Massa is nothing short of extortion. Unfortunately Massa didn’t realize his manhood was chopped off until after it happened.
This is just getting uglier and uglier.
Not quite as ugly as other things that Obama is complicit in. Why exactly are you not dingning him on helping to cover up these crimes, which are far worse?
I can neither agree, nor disagree with the article. This stuff was usually reserved for Bush, now it’s Obama. I need to see more.
Phoenician in a time of Romans:
Rahm is about two steps below a mob boss/enforcer. IMO, what Rahm did to Massa is nothing short of extortion. Unfortunately Massa didn’t realize his manhood was chopped off until after it happened.
This is just getting uglier and uglier.
But on this part, it appears BO is doing his best to have his proxies fingerprints all over the Chicago Mob tactics as he acts as the Godfather and tries to appear above it all, when you know he’s chest deep in the swamp with his enforcers. He’s taking the Sgt. Schultz tactic of “I know nothing!”
Call SVU: Naked Chiefs of Staff poking U.S. Congressmen in showers, Political Rape, Extortion, Bribes, & America Getting Screwed!…
Rahm Emanuel is dictating, he is intimidating & bribing, members of congress to vote the way HE says & if they don’t, well… just take a look at how Congressman Massa is being “politically raped”. This fiasco has nothing to do with “…
[...] Robert Butche wrote a very interesting post today. Here’s a quick excerpt:I am also aware that blogs and radio will have a field day with this in today’s destructive and unforgiving political environment.”” I guess he was right about the blogs, as John couldn’t resist. I don’t recall John making such a fuss … [...]
Would Obama, Rahm, Pilosi, and Reid be forming a protective circle around Massa if he had been willing to vote for Obamacare? Would they look the other way if Massa was a member of the Black Caucus, like Charlie Rangle or Cold Cash Jefferson?
Is throwing Massa under the bus yet another demonstration of the sort of dirty low-down political expediency Progressives are known for?
Does anyone question the timing?
Dana:
Point taken, Dana.
EIA claims:
As I cited before in this thread:
Massa has raped himself, so to speak, by his own admission, so your contention is factually incorrect!
Massa is a worm. Don’t believe a word he says. He is weak and sneaky and self-indulgent and self-serving. In other words, a New York politician. In kinder
words, what John calls “abomination”.
Phoenician:
I became initially concerned about Obama’s policy following Cheney/Bush’s, when this became known in August 2009:
I do not understand why we need a rendition policy. Why cannot we do the interrogations ourselves?
Obama could have simply ended renditions, and he did not.
Moreover, now he inherits the Cheney/Bush atrocities revealed in 2004.
Obama could simply renounce this past behavior, apologize for it, and insist that it would not continue on his watch.
Instead, we are faced with the truth continuing to leak out, thus having a negative impact on our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and on the sincerity of our outreach to Muslim nations worldwide, especially in the Middle East.
In my view, Obama has made a major mistake here. He needs to rectify it, else his credibility be permanently diminished.
I have to admit, that one made me LOL.
I can neither agree, nor disagree with the article. This stuff was usually reserved for Bush, now it’s Obama. I need to see more.
I see your problem, Yorkshire. Obama is covering up for hideous crimes Bush initiated. What is a good wingnut to do?
Phoenician in a time of Romans:
I can neither agree, nor disagree with the article. This stuff was usually reserved for Bush, now it’s Obama. I need to see more.
I see your problem, Yorkshire. Obama is covering up for hideous crimes Bush initiated. What is a good wingnut to do?
Spin????
Anyway, Beck interviewed Massa. Beck said the interview was a waste of time since it was a rehash of what is known. Beck even chided him for cutting and running and not fixing the problems Massa wouldn’t get specific about. Beck kept digging, Massa kept deflecting, or came across as a true outsider looking to get in the club to find out the secret handshake.
[...] Earlier I asked a question and answered it myself. “So, did he leave the leftist reservation? You bet he did.” I have to retract that. Massa did not leave the leftist reservation. He was further left than what was being voted on and he voted “no” because it wasn’t far enough left. It is still possible he left the Obama reservation. And it is still possible he is being Alinskyed due to that. [...]