"I have to come find out that on New Year's Eve, I went to a staff party — it was actually a wedding for a staff member of mine," Massa said. "There were 250,people there. I was with my wife, and in fact we had a great time. She got the stomach flu, I went down to sing "Auld Lang Syne." And with cameras on me — I'm talking three of them — filming me, I danced with the bride, and I danced with the bridesmaid. Absolutely nothing occurred.
I said goodnight to the bridesmaid. I sat at down at the table where my whole staff was, all of them, by the way, bachelors. One of them looked at me and — as they would do after, I don't know, 15 gin and tonics and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne — a staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid. His points were clear, and his words were far more colorful than that.
And I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and I said, 'What I really ought to be doing is frakking you,' and then tossled the guy's hair and left, went to my room, because I knew the party was getting to a point where I shouldn't be there."
The events detailed above seem extremely benign in comparison to the average congressional scandal: nothing illegal, nothing overtly sexual, nothing but alcohol induced comments. Just words.
Furthermore, Congressman Massa is now noting that he would have been the deciding vote against ObamaCare. Massa is essentially saying that the White House blew this small incident out of proportion in retaliation for his stance on health care. This may all die out soon as a simple "he said-he said" issue. But there is a chance that this story, the issue of White House Chicago-style intimidation, could get legs and turn into something big. Forcing the resignation of a Congressman is getting dangerously close to enemy list territory.
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