From my Boston Herald column today:
Naked congressmen, shower stall encounters, “tickle parties,” wraslin’ with the boys back at the condo - the Eric Massa story sounds like low-rent porn. “Brokebudget Mountain” or “Tickle Me, Rahm-Bo.”
Actually, I’m not sure even the porn industry would work with dialogue like this:
LARRY KING: “Are you gay?”
MASSA: “Ask my friends. Ask the 10,000 sailors I served with in the Navy.”
Well, 10,000 sailors can’t be wrong!
For those of us who oppose the Obamacare boondoggle, this is hilarious. But for President Barack Obama and his allies - including Massachusetts Democrats - Massa-mania couldn’t be hitting at a worse time.
The problem isn’t Massa’s ridiculous claim that he was forced out of Congress because he opposes the health care bill. What hurts is that the Massa mess highlights the Obama administration’s desperation and incompetence on health care.
When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”… Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate.
