Massa told Fox News that, yes, he groped a male staffer — but not sexually.

“Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe and then four guys jumped on top of me,” he said. “It was my 50th birthday. It was ‘kill the old guy.’ You can take anything out of context.”

Massa has previously claimed his misconduct was limited to using inappropriate language with staffers.

Massa’s interview came after the former New York Democrat alleged that party leaders conspired to force him out of office so they would have an easier time approving the health care reform bill.

In a radio interview Sunday, Massa described himself as the “deciding vote” on health care.

Barack Obama Is Coming to St. Louis on Wednesday March 10, 2010.

—–NOW IS THE TIME – LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD
Protests are planned for tomorrow.

You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Call me old-fashioned but how about we read it first, then vote on it?

By the way… This was in her prepared speech.

From the SEIU Blog:

If AHIP thinks they’ve been getting an incredible amount of heat lately for their stunning rate increases, they haven’t seen anything yet.

Today, we’re taking a stand together to show AHIP we’re not going to allow the big corporations and their lobbyists to bully Congress into inaction. We kicked off today’s rally this morning at around 10:30 a.m. Health care activists spilled off of buses that traveled from DE, CT, MD, MN, VA, NJ, NC, NY, OH, PA, RI to be here today.

They joined union members, health care supporters, politicians, progressive leaders and faith leaders, until there were several thousand of us packed into the Circle by the fountain. HCAN’s Richard Kirsch, SEIU’s Anna Burger, and Howard Dean all spoke briefly, energizing the crowd and reminding us all why we’re all out here: to hold the abusive health insurance industry accountable for its actions.

The leftists were arrested after breaking into the ballroom where insurance executives were holding a meeting. (Flickr)

Howard Dean fired up the crowd. Yeaaarahh! (Flickr)

The American Sportfishing Association reported back in October about the sweeping changes proposed by the Obama Administration in regards to the sport fishing industry:

A sweeping oceans and Great Lakes management policy document proposed by the Obama Administration will have a significant impact on the sportfishing industry, America’s saltwater anglers and the nation’s coastal communities. The draft policy, the Interim Report of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, issued on September 17, will govern federal Pacific and Atlantic Ocean waters and Great Lakes resource conservation and management and will coordinate these efforts among federal, state and local agencies. This past June, President Obama created the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, led by the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), to develop a draft national policy and implementation strategy for conserving and managing the United States ocean territory and the Great Lakes.

Now it looks like the Obama Administration is going to move ahead with these restrictions.
ESPN reported:

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters…

“When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario,” said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.

“Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard working American families and small businesses are being ignored.

“In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President’s concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority.”

Consequently, unless anglers speak up and convince their Congressional representatives to stop this bureaucratic freight train, it appears that the task force will issue a final report for “marine spatial planning” by late March, with President Barack Obama then issuing an Executive Order to implement its recommendations — whatever they may be.

Led by NOAA’s Jane Lubchenco, the task force has shown no overt dislike of recreational angling, but its indifference to the economic, social and biological value of the sport has been deafening.

Additionally, Lubchenco and others in the administration have close ties to environmental groups who would like nothing better than to ban recreational angling. And evidence suggests that these organizations have been the engine behind the task force since before Obama issued a memo creating it last June.

- Rep. Akin joins us to talk about the rally for real reform tomorrow in St. Charles

- A vote on fauxcare is days away. What it means for you if it passes.

- Cool Points

- Roger SImon

- Energy expert Mike Carey

2pm central!

No one has any idea as to what the coffee party is actually for; they say they are the alternative to the Tea Party movement – which means that since the Tea Party stands for limited government, believes in upholding the Constitution, and believes in individual liberty, the coffee party, by its own admission, stands for bigger government, bucking the Constitution, and no individual liberty.

It’s nothing more than an astroturfed ploy by the left to lure independent voters away from the Tea Party. This is a stupid move because it presupposes that independents are too stupid to realize that there is no substance to this Democratic posturing and were lured by conservatives rather than run off by socialists “progressives” whose policies tripled the deficit and kicked unemployment to a record high 10%.

Hey Dems! Instead of pretending to be something you’re not, how about moving back to your base of classical liberalism instead of embracing neo-socialism and implementing policies which infringe upon individual rights? Making up a watered-down response to a true grassroots uprising is a #fail.

The coffee party was founded by top Obama Campaign official Anabelle Park. The group was formed in response to the tea party movement.

St. Louis had their first coffee party meeting last week. About 40 people turned out. The St. Louis Coffee Party is a branch of the national astroturfed group based out of Washington DC. Founding Bloggers wrote more about the local media bias in promoting the St. Louis coffee group.