A post by Pat
Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) evidently despises the people he represents and will adamantly vote against their wishes if he thinks it’s for their own good. Here he is boasting to his ideological compatriots at the Netroots Nation cattle call.
MASSA: I’m not going to vote for 3200 as it’s currently written. Step one, I will vote for a single payer option or a bill that does have a medicare coupled public option, which we don’t have right now. If my town hall meetings turn into the same media frenzies and ridiculousness, because every time that happens we lose. We lose another three million people in America. They see that happening and negate us.
PARTICIPANT: It changes America.
MASSA: Every time that occurs. So what happens in my town hall meetings frankly is important, because I am in one of the most right wing Republican districts in the country, and I’m not asking you guys to go back to wherever and send people to me. This is a generic statement of what can I do? Well that’s one thing we can do.
PARTICIPANT: So if we got your meetings to sixty forty, you’d vote…and there was single payer in a bill you would vote for it?
MASSA: Oh absolutely I would vote for single payer.
PARTICIPANT: If there was sixty forty sentiment in the room?
MASSA: Listen, I tell every audience I’m in favor of single payer.
PARTICIPANT: If there was eighty twenty in the room?
MASSA: If there was a single payer bill?
PARTICIPANT: And there was a single payer….
MASSA: I will vote for the single payer bill.
PARTICIPANT: Even if it meant you were being voted out of office?
MASSA: I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful. I will vote against their opinion if I actually believe it will help them.
He won by 2 percentage points. Want to bet by what margin he’ll lose next time?
This sort of honesty is actually refreshing. My biggest gripe with Obama is his words (ever since he started running for president) and deeds have almost nothing to do with each other, and his lies reassured the moderate swing vote. Too bad “bait and switch” laws don’t apply to candidates, or a lot of people would be demanding their votes back.
My first reaction was, “At last, an honest politician”.
He’s my rep. He ran multiple times before he was elected, complete with dirty political tricks. The Democrats here even illegally opened sealed divorce court documents that belonged to one of his opponents. The opponents wife… well, her privacy didn’t matter to them either. And things came out that both parties would have preferred to remain private. I guess that’s why they were ordered to be sealed by their judge in the first place! I’m planning to attend Massa’s last Town Hall (unless I get stuck traveling for business). I would like to assure him that re-election will be an impossibility if he votes for health slavery. His supporters will be happy and probably vote for him again. But the people he ticks off will be more motivated to fire him.
He sounds like my liberal Democratic Congressman who voted for Cap and Trade even though it will kill the coal business which is the leading industry in my district. Gotta love these sorry egg-suckers.
Please, they all will vote for the Deathcare regardless. Here is a snippet from a town meeting held by U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D., Pa.) in Center City, PA.
“Inside, things for the most part ran smoothly, with Sestak fielding questions. He [Sestak] said that the current [health care] system was unsustainable, that it was costing America billions in lost productivity, that it was right and moral to extend coverage to millions of uninsured , and that he believed the change would make health care more competitive.”
You can find the article at: http://bit.ly/VKjk1
An inconvenient truth for the single-payer crowd showed up yesterday about the Canadian system…http://tinyurl.com/Overhauling-health-care-system
Overhauling health-care system tops agenda at annual meeting of Canada’s doctors
“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
“We know that there must be change,” she said. “We’re all running flat out, we’re all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands.”
“(Canadians) have to understand that the system that we have right now – if it keeps on going without change – is not sustainable,” said Doig.
What an arrogant bastard, and yet seemingly typical of our elected officials these days. When did they forget or reject the idea that they work for us insomuch that they should do what we tell them to do and not what they think is “best for us?” I can decide what is best for me and then tell my reps, not the other way around. I can’t wait til they learn that lesson in 2010 and 2012!
the link to the article about Canadian health overhaul… didn’t show up w/ my post for some reason.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jbjzPEY0Y3bvRD335rGu_Z3KXoQw
Hmm…and they wonder why people are becoming irate at these meetings. They are voted into office to represent the majority of their district and they ignore, dismiss, and berate those that voted for them. Doh!! God, I can’t wait til’ 2010!!!! Hopefully S. Palin will be running for the White House in 2012.