MSNBC's "Morning Joe" cut to Joe's appearance this a.m. on NBC's "Today" show - where he said much about nuthin'.
Joe: "This is going to pass because the president's legacy depends on it... They will figure out a way to pass it."
As for Dem Massa, "This is so much like Foley." [FL Repub Mark Foley forced to resign in 2006 for hustling male pages via smoking gun emails.] "If Republicans keep the story alive, it'll hurt the Democratic party."
Joe wound up the segment blabbing how he had to turn to an "urban dictionary" after reading Josh Green's "The Atantic" piece on how career Navy man Massa crawled on an upper bunk bed and attempted "to snorkel" a Navy subordinate. Translation: skin diving. In Massa's case, night diving.
Back to the "Morning Joe" set. Mike Barnicle: "He was doing so well. He had to bring up that urban dictionary." Someone mumbled: "I love water sports."
Meanwhile Obama's delaying his Indonesia trip by three days under a White House-imposed House health care bill vote deadline. "Someone should tell Sasha and Malia their spring break is in jeopardy. I feel sorry for them." NBC WH correspondent Kelly O'Donnell to Chuck Todd on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown." Yeah, the young Obamas aren't going now. Tough luck.
As for Massa, he still may face a House Ethics Committee probe now that it is Republicans' turn to avenge 2006 and the Foley imbroglio. As Joe Scarborough said on "Today": "It's deja vu all over again."
NBC's Chuck Todd earlier this a.m. snorkels smoke up our assess asserting the Massa sex scandal taints all members of Congress. Foley = 2006 Repub congressional losses with Dems wresting control. Massa = 2010 Dem oongressional losses with Repubs prevailing. Tough luck, Chuck...
This news just in to the newsroom: President BO will go to Indonesia without his family.
ReplyDeleteNo problemo,
ReplyDeleteEl grande dictator will likely just fire up Airforce 2 and have the fam. flown over after school is over for the week. Isn't that what happened in France last year? That way the first man and his lady can have another date night!
Let me get this straight (no pun intended) - the Massa scandal "taints all Members of Congress," according to NBC's Chris Todd.
ReplyDeleteFirst, nice editorializing there, chief.
Second, Ole Massa sure do get around, don't he? 535 Members of Congress, and Massa "tainted" them all?
A senior editor on the Atlantic Monthly managed to bloviate (still no pun intended) on the subject of Eric Massa's Navy files (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/eric-massas-navy-files/37309/?pid=ynews) for eight paragraphs without once following his name with the customary (D, NY) or "former Democratic Congressman from New York".
First, Pelosi pretends that she didn't know about Massa's cocky behavior (okay, now THAT was a pun) until March 3rd, despite Massa's own aide Joe Racalto saying he told her about the groping in October - how's that unprecedentedly open and honest Congress working out, San Fran Nan?
Second, the House leadership let Massa fall on his sword (second intentional pun) and resign quietly. No Mark Foley-esque public debacles, no airing of the evidence, just a quiet departure. This, people, is what is known as bulls--t.
Nancy Pelosi promised us openness. What we got instead is cover-up on top of cover-up. I didn't think the woman had deserved all the piling-on (ok, that wasn't a pun) she got until the past year, when she proved that at least figuratively, she's a two-bit San Francisco political courtesan.
And the press deserves to hang their head in shame for being the partisan punks they have proven to be.
All that crap about Watergate turned out not to be righteous indignation, after all, because the current administration has abused the laws of the land and committed so many worse abuses of power, with no independent prosecutors appointed to look into what Obama and his henchmen have done...
I never thought I'd say it, but Barack Hussein Obama makes Bill Clinton look honest by comparison. He's the liberal Nixon.
-Massa & Obama-
ReplyDeleteA little low even for me, but...
Might there be an audio somewhere of the president addressing him by his last name?
You know how Tina Fey came back to SNL to do Sarah Palin? Where is Colin Quinn these days? First thing I thought of when I saw Massa...
ReplyDeleteLet me get this straight (no pun intended) - the Massa scandal "taints all Members of Congress," according to NBC's Chris Todd.
ReplyDeleteFirst, nice editorializing there, chief.
Second, Ole Massa sure do get around, don't he? 535 Members of Congress, and Massa "tainted" them all?
A senior editor on the Atlantic Monthly managed to bloviate (still no pun intended) on the subject of Eric Massa's Navy files (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/eric-massas-navy-files/37309/?pid=ynews) for eight paragraphs without once following his name with the customary (D, NY) or "former Democratic Congressman from New York".
First, Pelosi pretends that she didn't know about Massa's cocky behavior (okay, now THAT was a pun) until March 3rd, despite Massa's own aide Joe Racalto saying he told her about the groping in October - how's that unprecedentedly open and honest Congress working out, San Fran Nan?
Second, the House leadership let Massa fall on his sword (second intentional pun) and resign quietly. No Mark Foley-esque public debacles, no airing of the evidence, just a quiet departure. This, people, is what is known as bulls--t.
Nancy Pelosi promised us openness. What we got instead is cover-up on top of cover-up. I didn't think the woman had deserved all the piling-on (ok, that wasn't a pun) she got until the past year, when she proved that at least figuratively, she's a two-bit San Francisco political courtesan.
And the press deserves to hang their head in shame for being the partisan punks they have proven to be.
All that crap about Watergate turned out not to be righteous indignation, after all, because the current administration has abused the laws of the land and committed so many worse abuses of power, with no independent prosecutors appointed to look into what Obama and his henchmen have done...
I never thought I'd say it, but Barack Hussein Obama makes Bill Clinton look honest by comparison. He's the liberal Nixon.