Eric Massa claims he was forced out by Democrats because he opposes healthcare reform

  The story of disgraced Congressman Eric Massa took an interesting and unexpected turn today with his claim that he was forced out by Democrats because he opposes Barack Obama’s healthcare reform bill.

  I have to admit that I was shedding no tears at the fall of the latest embattled Democrat, but I did find it odd that Democrats abandoned him so quickly. After all, the Democrat leadership stood by Charlie Rangel during his ethics investigation; it wasn’t until the ethics committee handed down a guilty verdict that Democrats began to call for his resignation from the House Ways and Means Committee– a demand that Charlie Rangel finally met, but he has been allowed to stay on in congress and no Democrat has asked for his resignation from congress. Indeed this is the party that has in its upper level people like Timothy Geithner and many others with tax problems and other questionable ethics problems. So many questionable people are in Barack Obama’s administration that it almost seems like part of the job description.

  While the investigation was still ongoing, Democrats called for his resignation. They seem to be uncaring to the fact that he has not yet been found guilty of anything. I initially wrote this off as Democrats being sensitive to ethics violations so soon after Charlie Rangel was found to have violated House ethics rules. But according to Eric Massa, there is more– much more— to this story than that. I have read what Eric Massa is claiming is the comment that has given him so much grief and while it was rude, it is not a comment  that men have not made to each other in any factory across this country on any given day.

  He feels that he was targeted by his own party for no other reason than he was a “no” vote on healthcare reform. He claims that he is being made an example of by party leadership and his prosecution is a notice to all other freshman Democrats as to what can happen if you do not go willingly along with the president and his agenda. He claims that because of his situation there is no other freshman Democrat who will be willing to oppose the president’s healthcare reform legislation. In other words, if what he is saying is true, his resignation will almost guarantee the passage of Barack Obama’s healthcare reform through threats and intimidation.

  There is no proof of Massa’s allegations, but he has gone so far as to claim that Rahm Emanuel accosted him in the shower after a workout and threatened him. These are some serious allegations and I can’t help but wonder why Eric Massa would lie about something like this. The only reason that I can come up with is that it is sour grapes. He is upset that the Democrats did not stand by him the way they have stood by all of the others, so he lashed out with falsehoods in order to extract his revenge.

  But I am not buying that, it simply does not make sense for him to libel the Democrat leadership; I have to wonder if there is truth to these claims, and I believe that there just might be. So far these claims have gone unanswered, nobody has refuted them. Why is that if these are baseless claims?

  As I wrote above, there is no proof to back up Eric Massa’s claims, but they are serious claims, and if they are untrue I would expect there to be some type of rebuttal. But there is one thing that we know for sure, if this is what we have come to in American politics than we are in deep trouble. If the president’s party– who admitted they would stop at nothing to pass healthcare reform– would stoop to the level of threatening and “weeding out” the opposition in government in order to pass their agenda than we have reached a new low in American politics. This is not the way the system is supposed to work.

  While many people may take these charges lightly, and while the mainstream media may ignore this story, it is much too important to not be looked into. If what Eric Massa claims is true, than this administration is using mafia type “persuasions” and thuggery to pass an agenda that the American people are opposed to. I find that to be very serious and nobody should be taking these charges lightly.

  We need to know if these charges are true or not. If not; Massa will be exposed for the liar he is; but if they are, we are dealing with an administration that has no scruples when it comes to advancing an agenda that the people have rejected.

  We need to get to the bottom of this story.