Posted on 04/17/2010 2:05:49 PM PDT by Texas Peartree
A married man and congressional candidate begins harassing male campaign workers, especially gay campaign staff. Upon being elected, this Congressman distinguishes himself primarily for his drinking problem, beginning each day by adding liquor to his morning coffee. I think they call it "Kennedy's Koffee" down at Starbucks.
His party's leadership is told some of the details by the Congressman's Chief of Staff, but the leadership does nothing. The Congressman pays his Chief of Staff $40,000 in campaign money, presumably to keep quiet about the remaining details. After announcing that he will not support the President's efforts to socialize medicine, the news comes out that the Congressman made numerous homosexual passes to staff members and even a bartender working at a Marine's funeral back in the district.
Is any of this newsworthy? Not if the Congressman is a Democrat. Newsweek's Eleanor Clift's take is that this an example of a pattern of bi-partisan inaction toward bad Congressman, and an example of each Congressman being a king within his fiefdom.
Here is another take: Massa is a Democrat and the media do not like exposing Democrats. It took brave amateurs to expose ACORN, and the media never looked at Obama's past. Speaker Pelosi uses Air Force planes for her family's travels. Charlie Rangel is a crook who has not correctly filed his taxes for years while running the tax committee of the US House. John Murtha, who recently passed away, was a crook who was caught on tape within an inch of taking a bribe from undercover FBI agents. Barney Frank allowed his boyfriend to run a brothel out of his basement. Now THAT is a supportive boyfriend. All of these Democrats are either still in office or, in Murtha's case, served decades before passing away.
Massa resigned, but...
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Welcome to the world!!!
Where were you before 2/11/2010????
That’s easy. He was going to vote against the health care bill.
These thing only matter when and IF the lame stream media can make a conservative look bad.
Ya’ big silly!!!
Duh
That whole Glenn Beck thing didn’t help. Suckered again. Flame away.
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