Lady Libertas has popcorn popping and will be sitting back and watching the Eric Massa saga unfold today.

Eric Massa is the US House of Rep Congressman from NY-29 who announced his resignation last week due to a House Ethics Probe about misbehavior during a wedding and inappropriate comments.  Massa apparently has decided to take out the Democratic Leadership on his way out the door. He claims he is being ousted due to his NO vote on health care.

To clarify, Massa is indeed a NO vote on healthcare but he is voting NO because he is a Single Payer advocate – so he wants MORE government involvement in health care.  Now on to the good stuff.

Massa set the tone for the interview at the outset:

“I will not go quietly into the evening,

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 is not to understand what is going on in Washington, D.C.”

Eric Massa continues on his rampage – Allow Lady Libertas to walk you through some of the juicier bits of the interview:

“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 the front end of a steam locomotive.”

Now, Lady Libertas cannot disagree with that one.  Nope – not one bit.  Apparently, Massa speaks from experience as he recounts an experience with Rahm (the mouthpiece of Obama!?):

“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,” Massa said. “And I gave it right back to him, in terms and words that I know are physically impossible.”

Massa does not stop there.  He goes on to call Rep. Steny Hoyer a LIAR. This is better than the ridiculous Academy Awards any day. From Fox News:

And he said the accounting provided by Hoyer and his staff is a fabrication.

Hoyer’s office claims the majority leader’s staff was notified the week of Feb. 8 about the allegations, that Hoyer was “immediately informed” and that he told his staff that Massa should refer the matter to the Ethics Committee within 48 hours, or he would do so himself. According to Hoyer’s office, Hoyer learned “within 48 hours” from the ethics committee staff and Massa’s staff that the Ethics Committee had been contacted.

“Steny Hoyer has never said a single word to me at all, not ever, not once,” Massa said on Sunday.

“Not a word. This is a lie. It’s a blatant false statement. And that’s what triggered me to understand what in fact is going on.”

Then, in a shameless maneuver, Massa appeals to the American people to stop his resignation:

“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.”

and he tells another caller:

“I can’t call Fox News. You guys gotta call Fox News. I can’t do it. … Here’s why. I’m in the center of this storm, so obviously I’m not objective.”

WOW!  Devil’s Spawn, Cursing from the Obama Administration, Lies from Congressional Leader’s and all wrapped up in an Ethics investigation or PLOT to hear Massa tell it.  Considering that Massa has inappropriate behavior on New Year’s – the House Ethics Committee did move pretty fast, especially if you compare the Rangel ethics investigation and the several others still outstanding.

Countdown to 5pm begins – what will happen next?

Original Stories on Right Pundits here (Devil Spawn by Donald) and here

Breitbart has some of the audio from the Radio Interview with Eric Massa here

Lady Libertas Original Story

The writing of the Health Care bill has become a seamy process. Candidate Obama  promised repeatedly that all important legislation would be debated publiclly on C-Span, promised that bills would be posted online for no less than 72 hours, and assured voters that government would be transparent in all matters involving hope and change.

Sadly, these heavily chronicled campaign promises have fallen stillborn, morphing into a pathetic series of closed-room discussions among Democratic leaders. Republican-proposed amendments to allow public viewing of the proposed heath care bills were voted down on a strict party vote.

The enlightened era of post-partisan governing has quickly devolved into, dare I say, Chicago-style politics where backdoors are the only doors and the public is left out of the loop.  

In fact, by any measure, the country has fomented into a more partisan, frustrated, divided nation that any in recent memory.

There is no transparency. You cannot have transparency where this is no trust.

For example, when Obama spoke before the Joint Chiefs of Staff he talked about what was and was not in the health care bill. Everyone except the media scratched their heads, because there is NO health care bill; it is still being hammered out in various committees. So when Obama made definite, assertive statements, his comments rang shallow and false with many people since he was not, in fact, referring to an actual bill. He was not even talking about what he’d like to see in the final bill.

At the time of that speech no less than three bills, all quite different, were in the works, and yet Obama attempted to present to the American people a fiction, namely, that some magical “Obama bill” was waiting in the wings for passage. No such bill existed.

Pundits can argue whether it was poor judgement for Obama to leave the writing of the bill to everyone other than his own team, but that is old news. He has lost the trust of Americans who, in spite of every attempt to block access to the language,  have managed to find the bills, examine them, and dismiss them as extraordinary power grabs with giant tax increases.

Worse still is Obama’s predilection for demonizing anyone who stands in his way. Remember the early comments about the Tea Party attendees? Nancy Pelosi referred to swastikas and generally denigrated the many fearful voters who had never, ever been involved in politics before, suddenly flooding town hall meetings and participating in all manner of rallies. It turned out that the “swastikas” she referred to was traced back to a single picket sign in which a swastika had a circle around it and a line through it. As for the purported astro-turf, namely the notions that these frightened, every-day Americans were somehow being orchastrated by some monied Republican elite, that argument fell quickly as well, and of course had no merit to begin with.

Throughout Obama’s full court press to pass health care reform he has at one time or another demonized the pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, doctors… it just doesn’t end. He needs an enemy. It appears he must have an enemy in his post-partisan attempt to pass his flagship agenda. And the more the polls show America does not want what he is selling, the more he resorts to elaborate, albeit shallow tactics, such as inviting doctors to the White House and supplying them with white doctor jackets, courtesy of the Obama propaganda machine.

Poll after poll shows support for government-run health care is simply not what Americans want. Obama’s insistence and petulance has demonstrated, according to other polls, that Obama is not what Americans want, either.

Obama campaigned as a moderate, and yet from health care to an army of Czars, from his takeover of GM to his international apology tour, Obama has proven to be decidedly left of center. He is behaving as someone who has a genuine, deep opposition for this great country.

With the 2010 midterm elections looming, the clock ticking, America is watching their president pick fights with FOX news, waffle on whether or not to send more troops to Afganistan, but on health care he remains resolute, resolutely against the wishes of the majority of voters.

That, alone, should speak volumes.

I’m sure you all recall Obama’s frequent remark that if you like your current doctor you will be able to stay with him or her, and if you like your current insurance you’ll be able to keep it.

But on page 16 of the over 1,000 page health care bill is a provision that states  that private health care will be illegal.

This glaring inconsistency with what was promised by President Obama prompted Investor’s Business Daily to contact the House Ways and Means Committee for clarification.

An editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily states: 

“The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:

“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.”

In light of this revelation, still more credibility is given to what opponents of government-run health care have said all along, namely, that it would cause many private businesses to stop offering health coverage to their employees, forcing people no choice but to opt in to the government plan.

There are bad ideas, then there are absurd, childlike notions, and clearly this whole government health care idea falls into the latter category.

Despite horror stories from Canada and the UK, righteous, indignant democrats insist they know what is best for the unwashed masses.

Fight this!