Posted on 03/08/2010 5:13:55 AM PST by The Old Hoosier
Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., under investigation for alleged sexual harassment of a male staffer, accused House Democratic leaders of lying about the charges against him and using them to run him out of Congress because he voted against health care reform when it last came before the House.
Roll Call reports this morning that on the local radio show he hosts in his district, Massa said he had not been informed of the sexual harassment allegations before they became public. He claimed that Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., spoke falsely when he said he had brought the matter to him previously, Massa said. “Steny Hoyer has never said a single word to me, at all, ever, not once," Massa said. "Not a word. This is a lie. It’s a blatant, false statement."
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Delicious!
Oh boy, bring out the popcorn, this is going to be interesting
the dems wouldn’t do this strictly to get rid of him because he voted no, would they? nah, can’t be../s
His assesment is correct!
Reminds me of an episode of an Aliens movie, the Aliens kill one of their own to get the acid blood to make an escape route for them.
Why bring out the popcorn? Do you really think the MSM is going to let anyone hear this? Do you think he will be on the morning shows? The Sunday shows? The news in general?
Massa will be lucky if he is able to get an audiance with his mother at this point. The corrupt MSM will bury him.
Ann Coulter on Fox - comparing the MSM sitting on the Foley scandal until it hurt the GOP elections...while the Massa scandal is *out* early enough for the DEMs to recover.
Additionally, all of Foley’s emails were published ad nauseum - while we still do not know precisely what activity Massa is accused of.
THe more practical question is this: how long will it be before the Dems can come up with a replacement... or can this district be taken from them in a special election?
I wouldnt trust Steny Hoyer as far as I could throw an eleophant by it’s trunk.
Who gets their news from the MSM anymore?
Anyone surprised?
This was an obvious scam against this congressman from the start.
The person making the charges had been fired a while back and was willing to do the wrong thing.
According to Dick Morris, there is another no vote who miraculously had a federal investigation against him dropped by Holder and now guess what? He's a YES! Gee, what principles. ME FIRST.
Raise your hand if your shocked.
uh..me neither.
Massa is lying through his teeth. You couldn’t get a scenario such as he claims unless you had a cabal of Chicago politicians running national politics. Ah....wait a minute. Please cancel prior statement. How silly of me.
“Then why quit?? Switch parties and fight the dems and bring to light their lies and deceit”
Bingo. Wait till they find out who railroaded Spitzer.
It wasn’t the usual suspects.
Politics... strange bedfellows, etc.
A special election is necessary for House seats. As the district is the most conservative in NY State (in an Upstate district), it’s highly unlikely that this stays in Dem control.
Whether it becomes an R seat before the health care vote is unlikely - as Gov. Paterson (D) controls the date of the special election.
Did it have to do with the Goldman Sachs boys?
Steny Hoyer is a well-known moral dwarf.
Massa explains vote on health bill
During months of debate on health care reform leading up to Saturday, Massa declared early on that he would not support the bill as written. Massa, one of 39 Democrats to vote against the bill, predicts it will not pass the Senate.Massa said one of the reasons he voted against the health care bill was that it would have raised local property taxes by at least 3 percent by increasing the income eligibility for Medicaid.
Also, the bill would not fully make the insurance market competitive and unfairly required that Americans buy insurance or face penalties, he said.
Instead, of the massive comprehensive overhaul that the House bill seeks, Massa said health care should be reformed gradually.
Massa’s challenger in the 2010 election, Republican Tom Reed, has criticized the bill but said Massa’s vote was misleading.
“Eric Massa voted against this bill because it does not have enough government control in it. In his ideal world, he would eliminate private health care altogether,” Reed said.
I'm with you, I agree with Tom Reed. Of course Massa goes back to his conservative district with an editorial saying it raises taxes. But after he went to the Kos Konvention in Pittsburgh and claims he will adamantly vote against the interests of his district, guessing which way he would eventually go is a no-brainer.
All RATs make a pact with the devil.
Afterwards, when they cross the devil and receive his calling-card, they cry a river.
Easy!
If G.BECK R.LIMBAUGH A.COULTER S.PALIN M.BACHMAN Tea Parties and all the GOP who have still b...s left nail that, it will make some noise and pop-corns will be needed!
Am i dreaming?
Of course! And now Patterson gets to decide if there will be a special election or not. Let’s see if he says let’s have it.
You betcha! Is Barney Frank still a Democratic member of the US House? You Betcha!
This firt timer who won in a red district had no chance against the maoist.
But the Civil War is in the Repub Party, the Party of NO.
Pray for America and Defeat of the Bill
Congressman Massa, now you know what it feels like to be a Republican...
Exactly. Massa is a strong-supporter of Canadian-style single-payer health insurance.
Am I missing something? Nothing in the article tells us why it became necessary for him to RESIGN today. Why didn’t he just keep his seat until his term ends?
Are we supposed to be more shocked at the charges against Massa than with Rangle’s corrupt misdeeds? Do they expect us not to notice that the Ethics Committee moved at lightening speed to coerce Massa but took over a year to lightly admonish Rangle for just one of his multiple criminal misdeeds? I DON’T THINK SO!
So now we know why Democrats are trying to get Paterson to resign now!
yeah, lots of dems are closet fags who sexually harass their interns & staffers, but they only get trouble if they defy the party line
So, why doesn’t this Massa character just stick it to Pelosi and Hoyer by staying in Congress and voting against their health care bill again?
I’m betting Gov. Patterson decides to flip one final bird to Obama and schedules a Special Election, sooner rather than later
Why bring out the popcorn? Do you really think the MSM is going to let anyone hear this? Do you think he will be on the morning shows? The Sunday shows? The news in general?
Massa will be lucky if he is able to get an audiance with his mother at this point. The corrupt MSM will bury him.
You are spot on ! Do not believe anything you see here at FR about the MSM being on a deathwatch. They are alive and well.
Who gets their news from the MSM anymore?
At least 52% of voters in the 2008 election.
Could you provide a link please.
OMABACARE CALL LIST
PLEASE CALL! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE State District
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
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Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
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John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District
Bart Gordon (202) 225-4231 TN
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, WA
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN
Or they are sexual predators against women (like Ted Kennedy). Or they are coke-heads. Or insider trading based on secret info they get in briefings. Or they have some other skeletons in their closets.
The deal with the Devil is this: "You can do as you wish, you can be as depraved as you wish. None of it matters AS LONG AS YOU VOTE FOR SOCIALISM".
Wanna bet a bunch of RINOs have a similar dynamic going with the Dems?
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~~ President Ronald Reagan
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
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OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security, http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts
Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/index.html
Will healthcare reform mean cuts in Medicare for seniors?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1017/will-healthcare-reform-mean-cuts-in-medicare-for-seniors
Health Reform’s Hidden Victims Young people and seniors would pay a high price for ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306303720472842.html
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SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466239/posts
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MILITARY & Retired MILITARY
Veterans’ G.I. Bill benefits MIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464680/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
Massa also described a profanity-filled conversation he had with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel after he voted against the president’s health care legislation last year. Massa called on Emanuel to resign for his own use of profane language during the phone call.
“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn,” Massa added. “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.”
“But there is a reward waiting for House members who ignore the wishes and interests of their constituents and vote for Obama’s health care proposals. Alan Mollohan has had a pesky FBI investigation hanging over his head for a few years. Now, presto, right before the health care vote, it went away. The Justice Department, headed by Attorney General Eric Holder, announced that the FBI was closing the inquiry.
Mollohan’s sin? He pushed for earmarks for nonprofit enterprises in his district and then went into a real estate deal in Florida with the head of the company under financial terms that were distinctly favorable to the Congressman. But Mollohan toes the party line and is now getting his unjust reward.”
BTW, this email from Morris was where I read for the first time that the Massa “scandal” was orchestrated by his rat leadership.
PASS TH POPCORN, THIS COULD BE FUN TO WATCH....DEMS TURNING ON EACH OTHER...PING!!!!
The truth is that which advances the revolution.
You know, I almost feel like supporting the guy and having him stay, just to throw the finger at the Whitehouz, Thuggin’ Stylez.
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