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| "Rahm is the devil's spawn" |
| 2010-03-09 |
| Whatever he has done or not done, I will miss Eric Massa, for no other reason than his gift with a phrase. In an amazing, far-ranging interview with a Rochester-area radio station, Massa admits making an off-color, sexual comment to a young staffer -- but still claims Democratic leadership ratted him out to kill a health care "no" vote. That brought him to the subject of Rahm Emanuel and arm-twisting: "Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn," Massa said, according to City Hall. "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." Later in the interview, Massa -- who sits down with Glenn Beck for a one-hour interview on Tuesday -- tells a bizarre story about Emanuel accosting him in the House gym -- in the buff: "Let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel," Massa started. "I was a congressman in my first eight weeks, and I was in the congressional gym, and I went down and I worked out and I went into the showers...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 going to vote for the president's budget. Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?" Massa has never enjoyed a particualrly close relationship with Emanuel, who was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee when Massa first ran for unsuccessfully, without much DCCC support, in 2006. Massa's near defeat of incumbent Randy Kuhl that year -- he lost by 6,033 votes -- attracted the attention of Emanuel's successor Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who helped Massa defeat Kuhl in a nail-biting rematch in '08. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 I thought the Clintons were bad. Compared to this crowd they are still bad but looking a little better. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-03-09 16:40 |
| #5 An off-color, sexual comment to a young staffer? And yet Bill Clinton gets away with his escapades with Monica Lewinsky? Can you say double standard? Can you say hypocrisy? It kinda makes me wonder what the hell is really happening. This crowd makes me sick. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-03-09 11:53 |
| #4 Some wag said Rahm Emanuel came up the drain and into the shower. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-03-09 09:45 |
| #3 That is why I wouldn't do well in politics. Some asshole comes up naked and pokes me and yells at me in the shower and it would be the last goddamn thing he ever did. Fortunately, blood washes off in the shower so it would be a win for me. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-03-09 09:17 |
| #2 he should feel lucky it was just the finger. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2010-03-09 09:00 |
#1 Ann Althouse:Massa's got the quote of the day, and he's certainly taken his revenge on Rahm Emanuel, whom we will now all instinctively picture naked and poking. I mean, back when the movie "Psycho" came out, it was a standard thing to be afraid to take a shower, because we were picturing Anthony Perkins, in his dress, come to jab us with that knife. Now, the image is Rahm, naked, come to poke us with that finger. |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-03-09 08:37 |