Taking a page from Nancy Pelosi’s own playbook, House Republican leaders today introduced a privileged resolution demanding that the Ethics Committee investigate what the Democratic leaders knew about former Rep. Eric Massa’s alleged groping of males interns and staff and when they found out. The resolution was almost identically worded to the one Pelosi introduced [...]
Retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat, is clearly upset with the media’s morbid fascination with Tickle-Me-Massa. He feels that this episode is robbing newspaper inches and front-page real estate from the coverage our brave colleagues are producing out of Afghanistan. And when I say upset, I mean really, really, really, really upset. Like [...]
Foes of Fox News everywhere would do well to watch Eric Massa’s mesmerizing performance on Glenn Beck last night. The disgraced tickler and former congressman found the news network’s Achilles’ heel. In fact, it’s amazing that the weak spot was not discovered before, what with all the eagle eyes at Media Matters laboring day-in and [...]
Former Rep. Eric Massa has booked himself on both CNN’s Larry King Live and Fox News’s Glenn Beck later today. It should be interesting. As of last week, Massa was making the case that his decision to leave Congress resulted from personal health problems. As of this weekend, he was claiming that he was pushed [...]
This fascinating clip making the rounds today documents some tension between Rahm Emanuel and Eric Massa way back in 2006. He lost New York’s 29th to Randy Kuhl by a fairly slim margin that year. Emanuel, then chair of the DCCC, doesn’t seem so impressed with the candidate in the video. h/t Taegan Goddard UPDATE: [...]
On his last day in office Rep. Eric Massa seems to have snapped awake from the shellshock of the Ethics Committee investigation into his alleged inappropriate language around a young male staffer which Politico is reporting was sexual harassment. Gone is the contrite politician who said in an open letter Friday on his website, “I [...]
So as long as I’m on this kick of inexpertly applying economic theory to Washington, let’s try this one on for size: Does Moore’s Law apply to congressional scandals? This, as you may recall, was the 1965 observation of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors you could fit on a chip doubles [...]
Rep. Eric Massa, the embattled New York freshman who just this week announced he wouldn’t be running for reelection, will announce his retirement this coming Monday at 5pm. Massa said in announcing his retirement that it was due to the return of his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which has been in remission. The House Ethics Committee has [...]
