Before you read this, go read David Bellavia’s five issues with Massa. It’s a masterpiece and one of the reasons I’m considering canonizing Bellavia.
TSO sends us a link from the Washington Post about Eric Massa, the victim of “Old Guy” hate crimes perpetrated by his staffer. The last three paragraphs of the Washington Post article;
After more than two decades in the Navy, during which he reached the rank of commander, Massa moved to Upstate New York to work for the manufacturing company Corning. In his official biography, he says he was laid off from his job because, “due to unfair free trade agreements, the company could not afford to keep those jobs in America.”
Massa then became a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee. He says in his biography that he was an early critic of the Bush administration’s strategy for invading Iraq and that he was “forced out” of his Armed Services job for “standing up against the failed pre-war planning.” Congressional salary data on file at the Web site Legistorm shows that Massa was employed by the committee for eight months in 2003.
Previously a Republican, Massa switched parties after leaving the House payroll and went on to work for the 2004 presidential campaign of retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, for whom Massa had worked when Clark was supreme allied commander of NATO.
Yeah, Corning is probably the fairest employer in New York State – they’ve resisted moving the company and outsourcing during the last thirty years of brutal oppression of the last three New York Administrations. They’ve bore every burden and paid any price to keep the New York business in New York State. Well, for everyone except Massa, apparently. And, oh, those free trade agreements – all Clinton Administration, boy-o.
Then he was forced out of the House Armed Service Committee after eight months of being an abrasive turd. I wonder what “pre-war planning” went on in the House Armed Services Committee. Seems to me that was done at the Pentagon – or maybe in the deep recesses of the psyche contained in Massa’s fat head.
But he found a home with Wesley Clark – probably reliving the staff tickle fights they used to have during the Kosovo operation. Clark paid him back with Vote Vets endorsements in 2006 and 2008.
And now Massa resigns and it’s someone else’s fault just like every other job he hasn’t been able to hold. Like I said the other day, I hope his poor wife slaps the dog shit out of him morning before breakfast – and I hope he carries his useless ass back to South Carolina where he belongs.
