Nancy Pelosi may have to testify in the Eric Massa investigation

    Democrats promised that they would run the most honest, ethical, and transparent congress in history. They have already failed on the issue of transparency and now they may be failing on the issue of ethics.

  When the news broke that Eric Massa was engaged in “tickle fights” with some of his male staffers, Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat leaders claimed that they only learned about these claims when we did.

  It turns out that there had been complaints filed against Eric Massa much earlier and that these complaints were ignored. We need to know what these leaders knew and when they knew it. On the surface it appears that the Democrat leadership knew about these accusations but decided to protect one of their own, but after it became apparent that Massa was a “no” vote on healthcare reform they turned on him and demanded his resignation and they got it. But he did not go down quietly and now the accusations are under investigation and Nancy Pelosi may be called on to testify in this investigation.

  If she is forced to testify, she will not be alone as Democrat majority leader Steny Hoyer has already been called to testify in this investigation.

  Do you remember when the Mark Foley story broke? Democrats– Nancy Pelosi included– were quick to jump on the fact that there were rumors about Foley’s actions, that many in congress knew about them, and that Republicans tried to cover it up. People like Nancy Pelosi quickly jumped on the story and claimed that Republicans knew about Foley almost from the beginning and did nothing. But the quickness of the Democrats claims that Republicans knew about Foley left me wondering how the Democrats knew that Republicans knew about Foley. (Did that sentence make sense? It did as I was writing it.)

   I have always been of the opinion that Democrats must also have known about the Foley scandal before it broke, but did not do anything about it until it became politically beneficial to them, shortly before an election. I am not excusing the Republican coverup of the scandal, but I do find it interesting that the Democrats did not find the Foley scandal so outrageous that they had to go public with it, instead they decided to sit on the story for months while an election drew closer.

  There are comparisons to the Foley scandal and the Massa scandal. Again, it appears as if the Democrat leadership knew about this scandal in advance. And if Eric Massa could have been counted on to vote “yes” on healthcare reform, I have no doubt that they would have continued to cover up this story.

  Hopefully this investigation will eventually call on Nancy Pelosi to testify, the American people need to know whether the Democrats have failed in their promise to run an honest and ethical congress. It certainly seems as if they have failed.