It's a safe bet that it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who put the kibosh to corrupt Charlie Rangel's appearance on Larry King Live Thursday night.
Now Bullwhip Nancy forces Dem Eric Massa's resignation to get back on a message muddied by scandal. NY Governor David Paterson is the lone holdout to erasing the media focus on Democratic ethics hypocrisy.
Massa first said he wouldn't run again. Now he's out - blaming talk radio:
“I own this reality. There is no doubt in my mind that I did in fact, use language in the privacy of my own home and in my inner office that, after 24 years in the Navy, might make a Chief Petty Officer feel uncomfortable. In fact, there is no doubt that this Ethics issue is my fault and mine alone. But in the incredibly toxic atmosphere that is Washington D.C., with the destruction of our elected leaders having become a blood sport, especially in talk radio and on the internet, there is also no doubt that an Ethics investigation would tear my family and my staff apart.”
As
for Nancy's 2006 promise to deliver "the most ethical Congress in history," "draining the swamp" has proved to be more daunting than surgical wizardry to remove 20 years from the sexagenarian Speaker's mug.
The Democratic Party
cannot withstand formal ethics investigations in an election year.
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