This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here …but you can see it from here

My favorite congressman blew his stack on the house floor today and went after the media’s coverage of the Massa scandal. He was speaking in support of a resolution put forth by Dennis Kucinich that calls for the withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan by the end of this year and he was critical of the fact that the media was devoting more time to Massa than Afghanistan. I just saw the video played on CNN and it is quite entertaining. He is throwing around papers, his face is beet red, and he is practically foaming at the mouth. Beautiful. If anybody has seen this posted anywhere on the web, post the link in the comments section and I will add it to the post.

I don’t think Patrick Kennedy really cares too much about what happens in Afghanistan. He was just looking for an excuse to throw a tantrum and get some attention for himself.  This guy is a joke and I think that the majority of Democrats in Congress are going to be glad to see him gone at the beginning of next year.

And, oh, Right Wing News has named us to John Hawkins’ 40 Top Conservative Blogs of 2010. Sure we’re tied for 40th place, but it’s an honor to be among all of those names. Since about half of our ideas come from our readers, I credit y’all with getting us recognized.

While I’m basking in the glow out here on my patio looking over to the Blue Ridge Mountains, go over and read Michelle Malkin who has linked to a slew of my Adam Kokesh posts today. She pulls them together nicely - much better than I could.

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.

dicksmith at VetsVoice is pushing the myth that we never would have caught Colleen Larose, known as Jihad Jane in the media, if we were so involved in profiling Muslims just because Larose happens to be a Caucasian. This is so specious, it is to laugh.

How many Caucasians have been arrested who were involved in terrorism against Americans as compared to Muslims? Seriously. How many? You can count on two fingers. Apparently, we should be ignoring a few billion people and focus on those less-than-one-percenters, just because they’re an acceptable skin pigmentation to profile.

Of course, that’s the kind of mud-puddle-depth of intellect we’ve come to expect from an organization led by a motor pool officer with three months in Kuwait.

Navy Captain Larry Baily, a Navy SEAL who spends a lot of his personal time and assets busting phony SEALs, will be on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show today. You can listen to it on the interwebbythingies. Apparently, Captain Bailey will be discussing Adam Kokesh’s candidacy run in New Mexico.

The one time I’ve talked with Captain Baily on the phone, he had just finished telling a widow that her recently deceased husband wasn’t eligible for burial in Arlington despite the years of lies her husband had told her. He’s a straight shooter and a rock hard patriot.

Below the jump is an open letter Captain Bailey sent out to New Mexico voters;
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Dude, I am literally surrounded by them. Somewhat inexplicably I was invited to attend the US Army’s TRADOC (Training and Doctrine Command) Senior Leaders Conference in Williamsburg Virginia. It’s like seeing a whole different world. Nicest damn resort I ever saw, and my clubs are 1000 miles away.

Anyway, just wanted to let y’all know I was out of contact, and if you guys could send me standard enlisted/NCO emails every now and again so I can retain my map reading skills etc, I would appreciate it.

Actually, just send some officer jokes so I can share them with the Generals (I have seen at least 5).

At the end of the hour-long, much-touted interview with former congressional butt plug, Eric Massa, Glen Beck apologized to America for wasting our time;

You can read Dana Milbank’s account of the interview at the Washington Post.

The Beck-Massa affair was a case of two political extremists who have gone so far in opposite directions that these strange bedfellows have wound up on the same mattress: They are both avowed foes of the Obama administration and its efforts to enact health-care reform.

Like I said yesterday, Beck lost sight of the fact that the reason Massa was prepared to vote against the healthcare bill was because it didn’t contain the single-payer and public options. Massa was/is a scumbag who admitted he wouldn’t vote in the interests of his constituency last year.

His own staff reported him to Steny Hoyer for groping them.

He was a POS and Beck should have seen that rather than give him a moment’s air time.

Wesley Clark should be proud of his former staffer.