Eric Massa is not going quietly.
From Roll Call:
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) suggested on a New York radio station Sunday that he could rescind his resignation — scheduled to take effect at 5 p.m. Monday — after asserting that an ethics investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed one of his aides may have been orchestrated by Democratic leaders to get him out of office before the health care vote.
Responding to a caller to his weekly radio show on WKPQ Power 105 FM, a recording of which was made available via the Web site of local station 13 WHAM-TV, Massa said: “I’m not going to be a Congressman as of 5 o’clock [Monday] afternoon. The only way to stop that is for me to rescind my resignation. That’s the only way to stop it. And the only way that’s going to happen is if this becomes a national story.”
During the hour-and-a-half show, Massa said that Democratic leaders are using the House ethics committee to get him out of office before the vote on health care because he voted against the House health care bill last fall.
Audio.
Transcript
ERIC MASSA: [Rahm Emanuel] has more than a dirty mouth.
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to a front end of a steam locomotive. And he doesn't like that he can come after me personally because.... Let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel.
I was a congressman in my first eight weeks, and I was in the Congressional gym. And I went down and worked out. I went into the showers, which, by the way, I for the life of me can't figure out why they took all the shower curtains off the shower stalls in the Congressional shower. I mean, the last thing I want to look at is my fellow colleagues naked. But they don't have any shower curtains down in the gym.
And I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me because I wasn't gonna vote for the President's budget.
Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?
It's ridiculous. And, but that's... So, by the way, what the heck is he doing in the Congressional gym? He goes there to intimidate members of Congress. And he was very surprised to find out that, it was a little bit more...
Come on, Senior, you're gonna, I mean, do you think you, after spending 21 years in the Navy and achieving the senior rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer, do you think you're gonna be intimidated in a shower stall with a naked man?
Well, I didn't hit him, but we had words and he hates my guts. He's hated me since day one. And now he wins. So, he'll get rid of me and this bill will pass. And I don't know what we're gonna do in this country.
I think Massa has reason to fear for his life.
Emanuel must be going ballistic. The guy is absolutely ruthless.
Obama must be up to 3 packs a day.
The Obama administration is a reign of terror.
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More audio from Massa's show on WKPQ:
Massa rails against the Obama administration, the Democrats, and their tactics.
From Naked Emperor News, via Breitbart:
Transcript
ERIC MASSA: [M]ine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill. 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'll pass.
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Here I read, 'House majority leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday that he was told the week of February 8th by a staff member in Massa's office about allegations of misconduct. Hoyer directed Massa to report the allegations to the House Ethics Committee within 48 hours.'
Steny Hoyer has never said a single word to me at all, ever, not once. Not a word. This is a lie. It's a blatant false statement.
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And when I voted against the cap and trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff to the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel. And he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that Crossing the Line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983. And I gave it right back to him, in terms and words that I know are physically impossible. I told him to do things that I know the human anatomy cannot do. There's no doubt in my mind. And then it got quiet.
And I said, 'Rahm, let's have a conversation. You pretend that you're the acting, you're the chief of staff to the president of the United States of America and I'm a sitting member of Congress.'
And he said, 'There's no reason for you to swear at me.'
I said, 'You're the one that unlit on me first and I'm gonna give as good as I get.'
So if Rahm Emanuel wants to come after me, maybe he ought to hold himself to the same standards I'm holding myself to and resign.
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I've had union leaders tell me pointblank we are not gonna contribute to your campaign unless you vote for this health care bill. Is that or is that not a bribe?
At the heart of everything we face in this country today, at the heart of the destruction of our democracy, at the heart of our inability to solve our problems, at the heart of the inability for us to actually pass to the next generation of Americans something greater than we received from our parents is the incredible corruption of money in politics today.
It makes me weep when I realize our nation is being destroyed from within.
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But I will not go quietly into the evening. I will not be ashamed of my actions, other than the fact that I used inappropriate verbal, V-E-R-B-A-L, language. And I was set up for this from the very, very beginning.
If 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 to understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.
The leadership of the Democratic party have become exactly what they said they were running against. They have become exactly what we all ran against. You cannot effectively govern this country without the consent of the governed.
The entire nation has said, 'Let's rewrite the health care bill. Let's find what we can agree upon.'
No, no, no, no. We're gonna ram this down the throats of the American people, and anyone who stands in the way of doing that is gonna be smeared. And they're gonna be kicked out of Congress. And we're gonna have people like Steny Hoyer lying in the press.
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So here's the reality: At this point, nobody knows, nobody understands. You can't sift yourself through all the various details because of things like the Nebraska compromise, because of things like $100 million to build a hospital in Connecticut, because of one little line item stuck in. The people have lost faith in this piece of legislation, and if we pass this bill using reconciliation, it will tear this country to pieces. It will rip this country asunder. And we have, I have made this argument over and over and over and over again with House leadership.
I have said we are supposed to be, as Democrats, the party of unity. We are supposed to be the party that builds consensus. We're supposed to be the party that governs equally, without malice towards anyone. We're supposed to be the ones that find the solutions. But instead of actually trying to find the solutions and writing a piece of legislation that will get you a 90 percent solution with 70 percent agreement among the American people, they are gonna ram this bill down the throats of this country, and it is going to rip this nation politically to pieces. And it'll be a generation before we recover.
Oh, Democrats.
Rahm didn't count on Massa fighting back and exposing the disgusting underbelly of the Obama administration and the workings of the Democrat party.
This is Massa at his best:
"The leadership of the Democratic party have become exactly what they said they were running against. They have become exactly what we all ran against. You cannot effectively govern this country without the consent of the governed."
Hope and change?
What a complete joke!
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MORE, from a 2006 documentary, Taking the Hill:
Emanuel tells Massa to be likable, to smile, and not to be angry?
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