How Can These People Not Win?

Here's today's Dennis the Peasant helpful hint for progressive politicans:

If you're intending to vote "against the interests" of the people you've been elected to represent, don't mention it while being videotaped.

Duh.

Here's the gory details. You simply can't make this sort of stuff up.

Next? Eric Massa hits himself over the head with a ball-peen hammer. Just for the fun of it.

Moron.

And Remember: This is the sort of rocket scientist who wants to manage your health care.

Comments

[markg8]

Transcript:
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.

(inaudible participants' comments regarding the "interests" of the district statement from Mr. Massa)

Massa: I will vote against their opinion if I actually believe it will help them.

[richard mcenroe]

Or, we could, you know, look at the video and watch this idiot cover his ass after enough suggestions from the onlookers.

Congressman? He looks more like a used car dealer with a lot full of clunkers he hasn't been paid for yet.