Rep. Eric Massa: Democrats ousted me over health care

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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."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34051.html

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Obama & his cronies will do anything to pass his Obamacare that no one wants.
 
You do realize that Massa opposed the HC bill from the left, don't you? Because he's unwilling to settle for anything besides single-payer.
 
“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.

But that's not the end of his Rahm tirade.

"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?"
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Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/poli...motive-for-a-Vote-86880847.html#ixzz0hbqlRWOB
 
apple0154 said:
Not ramming it through is wrong for the American people. Decades have passed. Families financially ruined. And worse.

The time is now.
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damn right. if a handful of families are going to be ruined because of medical care, the government should make it so that nearly all families are ruined because of medical care. :good4u:
 
SmarterThanYou said:
damn right. if a handful of families are going to be ruined because of medical care, the government should make it so that nearly all families are ruined because of medical care. :good4u:
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It's truly amazing, in this day and age, how little some people know about government medical. All the research available, all the examples of countries with government medical....truly amazing.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
damn right. if a handful of families are going to be ruined because of medical care, the government should make it so that nearly all families are ruined because of medical care. :good4u:
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Equal suffering for unequal taxation. It's only fair that all people suffer equally!
 
I think the right is making a big mistake in talking so much about this guy. He is an obvious loose cannon who might do or say anything. I cringed when I saw Fox news this morning and how much they wanted to talk about this nut and his situation. He may have said some stuff concerning the health care thing that the right wants to hear but he is not the type of fellow you want out front for your side.
 
leaningright said:
I think the right is making a big mistake in talking so much about this guy. He is an obvious loose cannon who might do or say anything. I cringed when I saw Fox news this morning and how much they wanted to talk about this nut and his situation. He may have said some stuff concerning the health care thing that the right wants to hear but he is not the type of fellow you want out front for your side.
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I haven't been following it closely but what you say sounds about right.
 
I was sick at home yesterday and while on the couch, in and out of consciousness with the TV on, it seemed that Massa was all I heard about. The more I heard the more I concluded this guy is a nut and needs to be distanced from no matter which side of the aisle one is on.
 
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