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Politics: The Democratic Senate candidate from South Carolina is not a GOP dirty trick but an appropriate representative of a party detached from reality. An incoherent and off-the-wall empty suit, he is a perfect fit. Late Thursday night, the South Carolina Democratic Party's Executive Committee rejected a protest of the June 8 primary for U.S. Senate, in which Alvin Greene, who has a felony arrest for showing porn to college girls, defeated Vic Rawl, a former state representative and judge. Greene has been declared the party's legitimate nominee, much to the chagrin of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, whose leg no longer...

The White House official behind the controversial offer to Rep. Joe Sestak is no stranger to hard-nosed political horse trading. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who enlisted the help of his former boss Bill Clinton to approach a congressman about sitting out a Senate primary race, has been involved in several political controversies during his 20-year-plus career in Washington. And the current controversy is only the latest for Emanuel in the past 16 months, since he joined the Obama administration. In the first days of the Obama administration, Emanuel admitted to talking to then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about...

Ever since its full scale assault on interrogation tactics such as waterboarding, the Obama Administration announced a while ago that it would form an elite interrogation unit for high value terrorists in captivity. This has left me wondering what type of person they would look for to be in the unit, and what the methods they would employ might be.... Nice to see the good former congressman taking his lemons and making tickled lemonade. If you don't know or remember the Elmo reference then click here and you're welcome. The Looking Spoon is a conservative humor/satire/art/commentary blog, visit www.thelookingspoon.com...

Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that the lawmaker was making aggressive, sexual overtures toward them, according to new interviews and internal documents. The senior staff, one of whom said he heard Massa making lewd remarks to young staffers, tried to manage the problem internally. But reports of Massa's inappropriate behavior continued, leaving junior workers feeling helpless, according to victims, other staffers and sources close to an ongoing House ethics investigation. Most asked not to be named due to the ethics probe and the risk...

It didn’t take long for freshman Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY) to make an impact on Capitol Hill. Unfortunately for his staffers, Massa concentrated his attentions more on them than on his job. The Washington Post reports that a new report on Massa’s sexual harassment of his aides was far more serious than either Massa or Democratic leadership first acknowledged, and had gone on longer than admitted:

In a move designed to create a liberal version of the Tea Party, former Congressman Eric Massa said he's forming a new political movement. Massa said at a press conference that he is forming a party of disaffected Democrats, called the Tickle Party. "It's better than a tea party," said Massa. "Although there's nothing wrong with a wonderful tea party, full of scones and long white gloves and such wonderful, wonderful company!" "But nothing beats a tickle party!" Massa concluded.

Eric Massa will forever regret going on The Glenn Beck Show and talking about tickle fights & snorkeling, SNL goes after all the scandals surrounding him in what they call his final exit interview (Video)

How much of a pickle is Pelosi potentially in? Enough that Dem loyalist Charles Blow had to resort to some truly twisted reasoning to explain away her delay in responding to allegations against Eric Massa. Of all things, the New York Times columnist tried to excuse Pelosi's failure to act by blaming . . . "our crazy misogynistic culture." Huh? Blow offered his odd opinion on today's Morning Joe. Mika Brzezinski was surprisingly skeptical. View video here.

Has Joy Behar run out of things to talk about? Is the HLN host and "The View" co-host allowing producers to select her topics? On HLN's March 10 "The Joy Behar Show," Behar suggested it might be time for conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to go after making certain remarks involving embattled New York Gov. David Paterson and former Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y. "This whole Massa controversy gave him an excuse to make a racial slur against New York Governor David Paterson," Behar said. "Not that Rush needs an excuse to make a racial slur." ...more (w/video)...

"I mean, some of these things that this man describes, you know, it just — it’s always reminiscent, these guys who are repressed homosexuals of this idea that somehow, it’s just sinning. You know, this is what the evangelical Christians always say, ‘Well, I’m not homosexual, it was just sinning.’ As if all of us men are looking to do the same thing – but we just don’t because it’s sinning. You know, that story he told about being at the wedding and the guy comes up to him and says, you know, you really should be hitting on the...

Compliments sometimes come from strange places, but you'll take them where you can get them, no? It seems that Fox News' March 10 "Glenn Beck" program, in which host Glenn Beck interviewed former Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., captured the attention of both the left and the right. And it may have even put to rest some of the misconceptions about Beck, which are mostly generated by outfits that operate with just out-of-context sound bites. "Let me tell you something," "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough said on his March 11 program. "[Beck] was not on his heels. He just - he...

At the end of Glenn Beck's interview with Eric Massa last night, the Fox Host asked if there were going to be any Tiger Woods-type text messages revealed, Massa seemed to be setting up his next defense as he said, “I’m sure there’s text messages because we bantered back and forth all the time. Joshua Green of the Atlantic may have found out what Massa might be preparing to defend, some of his former subordinates in the Navy made accusations that he groped them while under is command.

Watch his body language during the debate on CNN, in which the then-New York congressman ironically touts the values of “honesty and integrity.” At the end, he throws in a total non-sequitur, soliciting Hunter to buy him a beer:

Eric Massa Story Gets Uglier: "Unwanted Advances" in Navy Posted by Brian Montopoli The strange story of recently-resigned House Democrat Eric Massa has gone from bad to worse: The Atlantic's Josh Green reports that Massa was "notorious for making unwanted advances toward subordinates" during his 20-year Naval career. One former shipmate tells Green that Massa offered subordinates "Massa Massages." Another said a drunken Massa, his senior officer, groped him while he was sleeping. Green's piece also includes a story in which Massa's roommate was subject to inappropriate behavior. "When you're on ship, you're almost exhausted 24-7," Peter Clarke is quoted...

Glenn Beck, in a stunning and unprecedented occasion on his TV show, has apologized to his audience, admitting he wasted an hour of their time for the very first time. The apology occurred near the end of Beck's much-hyped interview with disgraced and potentially sexually deviant, former Democrat Congressman Eric Massa of NY. Billed by Beck only a day ago as an interview where Massa may just expose verifiable corruption in the federal government and the Obama Administration with regards to their apparent retaliation for his position on the health care vote, viewers were led to believe that Massa's interview...

Rahm Emanuel inspects Congressman Eric Massa on the campaign trail. Tells Massa do not be angry. Foul language near the end.

Former Rep. Eric Massa says he is insulted when Larry King asks if he is gay.

Glenn Beck was wrong, its as simple as that. He wasn't wrong in interviewing Eric Massa because it was an interview that he had to take once it became available. The Massa story was dominating the headlines and he had to jump on it. No, where Glenn Beck was wrong was apologizing for wasting our time at the end of the interview. This interview was no waste of time because in the end it destroyed the myth that Eric Massa's claims had any viability. It was classic train-wreck theater. You know that a train is going to end up derailed...

Glenn Beck's Interview With Former Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY). Don't think we learned too much..

Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY): "Not only did I grope him I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe. Then four guys jumped on top of me."

This starts off as an intellectual discourse on the use of apostates in political arguments, but descends to a pity party on Glenn Beck’s part when he goes after Michelle Malkin for criticizing his decision to give an hour to Eric Massa. It starts downhill at the moment that Beck says, “I don’t understand you people,” which takes the Boss Emeritus aback. (snip) One can believe that the Obama administration is playing hardball with or without Massa’s testimony on this point, but relying on Massa undermines the argument if it turns out that Massa may be exaggerating or prevaricating for...

Over the weekend Congressman Eric Massa Claimed that the Ethics Committee investigation that pushed him out of office was just a misunderstood drunken incident at a wedding. According to reporters who were allowed a peek at the files Massa's account is not quite accurate. He was under investigation for groping three different male staffers. Massa said the incident that got him in trouble occurred at a staff member's wedding reception on New Year's Eve. "I was with my wife. And in fact we had a great time. She got the stomach flu," he said. Massa said he had just gotten...

If you’re a fan of Glenn Beck, and there are many out there among the masses – you never know what direction he’s going – alleged vapor rub tears, a declaration that he would have voted for Hillary Clinton over John McCain, etc. After the CPAC speech, he took criticism from some of the leaders of the conservative movement – direct and indirect – from the likes of Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill Bennett. Now for the latest round – “Culture of Corruption” author and noted conservative Michelle Malkin went on Beck’s radio show today. What began...

Just as the healthcare drama in the capitol reaches a grand finale, congressional officials are warning employees to avoid the DRUDGE REPORT! The Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works issued an urgent email late Monday claiming the DRUDGE REPORT is 'responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate.' The committee ordered hill staff: 'Try to avoid' the DRUDGE REPORT 'for now'. On Monday DRUDGE served over 29 million pages with NOT ONE email complaint received about 'pop ups', or the site serving 'viruses'. The site was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and...

AP: Interviewed on ABC's "Good Morning America," press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about the assertions Rep. Eric Massa made Sunday in a radio address in his home district in western New York. Gibbs said, "I think this whole story is ridiculous. I think the latest excuse is silly and ridiculous." He accused Massa of continually changing the reasons for leaving Congress. Massa, a Democrat whose resignation took effect Monday, is facing a harassment complaint from a male staffer.

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Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) scorching attack on Democrats — while a lot of attention is going to a silly story about Rahm Emanuel, he accuses his party of trying to “shove the [health care] bill down our throats” — will be amplified tomorrow with a full-hour interview on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show. In roughly 12 hours, Massa has changed his narrative from “congressman resigning in disgrace” to angry, Howard Beale-esque truth-teller who’d simply had enough and will take his party to the woodshed. Left unsettled: the incredibly important issue of whether he’ll resign today, as he said he would,...

In an interesting turn of events this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced by her caucus to pry Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D-NY) Ways and Means gavel out of his hands and throw Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) under the bus. Then, she cut Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) loose late Friday afternoon, pressuring Massa to set down just days after allegations surfaced against the one-term Congressman. Rep. Massa will resign his House seat effective Monday, March 9 at 5pm. Through all of the months of drama of Rangel's ethics violations, tax evasion, and abuses, Pelosi has stood by Rangel--up to the...

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...

“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn,” Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) said. “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.”

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...

I've been leery of Luke Russert ever since the NBC reporter said, during the presidential campaign, that students at the U. of Virginia are "leaning a little bit towards Obama" because "the smartest kids in the state go there." On this evening's Ed Show, the son of the late MTP moderator gave additional reason to think that he leans "a little bit towards Obama" himself. Speaking of the Dem congressman currently under ethics investigation in connection with an allegation that he sexually harassed a male staffer, Russert said that Eric Massa would change his vote and support ObamaCare "if he...

I live in Upstate New York. It is really a very beautiful state if you don't mind snow. And corrupt politicians. We keep losing NYS democrat pols due to various indiscretions:

Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) held a conference call with no questions to announce his retirement. Massa says he is retiring because of cancer and denied rumors that he sexually harassed a male aide.

After just one term in Congress, Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., has reportedly decided against running for reelection. Massa is slated to hold a conference call with reporters to talk about the decision later Wednesday afternoon, but early reports suggest it could be health related. In the 1990's, while serving as special assistant to Gen. Wes Clark, then supreme allied commander of NATO, Massa was diagnosed with terminal cancer; after treatment, however, the cancer was reportedly in remission. However, the New York Daily News has unnamed "sources close to the congressman" talking about a possible ethics investigation.

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) will not seek re-election after only one term in office. According to several House aides – on both sides of the aisle – the House ethics committee has been informed of allegations that Massa, who is married with two children, sexually harassed a male staffer. Massa and his office did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but his office has scheduled a press conference for later this afternoon. Massa, a 20-year Navy veteran, was elected to office last November. He serves on the Agriculture, Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.

Keith Ellison, widely hailed as America's first Muslim congressman, could more accurately be described as CAIR and Hamas' man in Congress. Congressman Ellison has been a regular presence at CAIR fundraisers and at pro-Hamas rallies in the United States. As a former member of Farrakhan's Nation of Islam , Ellison has enough anti-semitic and Islamist credentials to satisfy anyone, and had expressed openly anti-semitic beliefs in the past. Since Ellison got his start with CAIR , his attempt to provide support for Hamas is completely unsurprising. Both Hamas and CAIR are projects of the Muslim Brotherhood, which also helped...

A first-term congressman drew a salary from his campaign for office last fall, his office said. Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) pocketed about $15,000 in campaign funds, the Buffalo News reported Sunday, while his wife was paid $18,000 for her work as campaign treasurer. "Eric did draw a meager salary at the end of the 2008 campaign to cover expenses after campaigning full-time for four years," Massa's spokesman told the News. "There aren't many people who have spent more time or effort working for the privilege of serving the families of their congressional district's than Rep. Massa."

I just got through to my Congressman, Eric Massa (D-NY). I asked if he had made up his mind on Nancy Pelosi's health care bill and the staffer tole me he was voting NO, and was committed to that position.

Congressman Massa Web Site ^ | 8-7-09 | Me Posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 2:25:39 PM by Ouderkirk Wednesday, 8/26/09: 5:30-7:30 pm Perinton Community Center 1350 Turk Hill Road Fairport, NY 14450

Here is video of Fox News' Megyn Kelly interviewing New York Dem. Rep. Eric Massa about his comments over the weekend that he will vote however he pleases on the ObamaCare legislation, without regard to what his constituents believe. Massa unbelievably tried to make out that he meant he would not vote FOR the bill even though many wanted him to do so. He cast himself as the opponent of ObamaCare, and even invoked the name of Ronald Reagan at the end! Massa has said he will vote against the current bill, but not because he opposes Government Health Care....

Here is video of New York Democrat Rep. Eric Massa talking to Leftist activists at the Netroots Nation Meeting last weekend where he said that Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley had committed an "act of treason" by what he said last week regarding ObamaCare. He appears to be referring to Grassley's pointed remarks that ObamaCare, if adopted, could lead to politicians and bureaucrats injecting themselves into "end of life" decisions that families have to make. Massa also said in conversation to activists at the same meeting that he was prepared to vote for ObamaCare "against the interests of his own district"...

Congressman Eric Massa (D-N.Y.)addressed other issues during his talk with progressive online activists at Netroots Nation 2009. He commented that a statement made by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) last week was an “act of treason.” Mr. Grassley recently made waves after saying that there should not be a government healthcare plan that would “pull the plug on granny.” In the video, above (:38 seconds in) Mr. Massa says: MASSA: I mean, what Grassley said the other day was an act of treason. I'm sorry. It's not being called on.

(Pittsburgh, Pa.) -- The words of a local congressman on the issue of healthcare are coming under scrutiny. Democrat Eric Massa told a group in Pennsylvania that he would vote against the interests of his constituents on healthcare reform if he believes what he's voting for would be helpful to them. Massa has held dozens of town hall meetings, many focused on healthcare, but while in Pittsburgh this past weekend meeting with the grassroots progressive political action group Net Roots Nation, Massa answered questions about where he stands on healthcare reform versus where his constituents stand. "I will vote adamantly...

[Video transcript] MASSA: I will vote for the single payer bill. PARTICIPANT: Even if it meant you were being voted out of office? MASSA: I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

The words of a local congressman on the issue of healthcare are coming under scrutiny. Democrat Eric Massa told a group in Pennsylvania that he would vote against the interests of his constituents on healthcare reform if he believes what he's voting for would be helpful to them. Massa has held dozens of town hall meetings, many focused on healthcare, but this past weekend while in Pittsburgh, meeting with the grassroots progressive political action group Net Roots Nation, Massa answered questions about where he stands on healthcare reform versus where his constituents stand. "I will vote adamantly against the interests...

As outlined in Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, the members of the House of Representatives are elected every two years. The reason for this was to guarantee the House members would be responsive to their constituents. Delegates at the constitutional convention felt that a two-year term of office would give new House members the opportunity to learn their job, while at the same time keep them dependent upon and therefore responsive to the wishes of the people. In a young nation where the town meeting was a common part of the governmental process, the House of Representatives was...

Wednesday, 8/26/09: 5:30-7:30 pm Perinton Community Center 1350 Turk Hill Road Fairport, NY 14450

Representative Eric Massa (D- NY) addressed an intimate group of Net Roots activists during their annual Net Roots Nation gathering in Pittsburgh this weekend. Mr. Massa reiterated his support for a single payer health care bill. He discussed the risks he takes for wanting to support such a measure in his "right wing Republican district." According to Swing State Project, Mr. Massa won his 2008 race by two percentage points. The voting pattern index (PVI) is a Republican +5 seat. The National Republican Congressional Committee has the upstate New York congressman in their sights for 2010 along with 69 other...

Here is video of Democrat Rep. Eric Massa talking to a group of Left-Wing activists at the Netroots Nation Meeting on August 15, where he said he would "adamantly vote against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful." Massa was talking about voting for a Single-Payer Government takeover of Health Care even if the vast majority of people in what he called his "right-wing Republican District" are against ObamaCare. Here you have it. A congressman who was elected to represent his constituents in Congress vowing to vote for ObamaCare...