Posted on 03/08/2010 6:21:46 AM PST by Zakeet
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.
In the monologue — an audio recording of which has been posted by Rochester's WHAM-TV — Massa said he first heard that the ethics committee was questioning his staff in early February but had no idea why.
He said he now understands the basis of the committee's investigation — and dismissed it as a matter of "political correctness" gone awry.
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Just heard Lou Dobbs playing the Massa clips on his radio show. Tomorrow night’s appearance of Massa on the Glenn Beck show for an hour will certainly be a MUST SEE!
Thanks... maybe at the Mar 26-28 fest, eh? ...or maybe Whiskey River? hee hee
He'll be there Tuesday, tomorrow.
Doesn’t Barney Frank do exactly what Massa said? What’s the difference?
Frank has political juice and Massa is a nobody.
Between this guy and Governor Paterson of NY, if the Dem hierarchy wants you out, the lap dog media turns on the assassination hose. Now Gov Paterson is covering up domestic violence for an aide, how convenient!
Really - they dig when they want to dig, or when Obama tells them to dig because someone needs to be whacked, like Paterson.
I am forever amazed at the Dem power over the mainstream press. While Tom Hanks claims there are ‘propaganda news agencies’ against the president.
Yeah right!
T'is good to see the democRATs/socialist/liberals eating their own.
5.56mm
You oldtimers ... (sigh) ... Still makin’ trouble, and it’s a damn good idea ................ FRegards
And now we see the fruit of their fascist labors.
They will not survive the next national vote, if we have a free and fair election at all that is.
And if the elections are called off due to martial law, or rigged according to the White House controlled census ( redistricting) , I am afraid we will be well on our way to civil war, or revolutuion.
America detests its own federal government. Waves of hatred.I have never seen anything like it.
NO ZAKEET............. IT DOES NOT WORK!!!
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