Rep. Eric Massa (OneTerm-NY): I Know What is Best for You

Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY): “I will vote against the interests of my district.”

Uh. Wow

Speaking to a friendly audience at Nutroots Nation:

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.

Just. Wow.

Because only our government knows what is best for us — thank goodness for men like Eric Massa willing to put their neck (and jobs) on the line to protect us from ourselves.

I hope you enjoyed your first and only term in the US Congress, Mr. Massa.

If I were his opponent, I would make one commercial and one commercial only — which showed nothing more than Mr. Massa saying he would vote against his constituents interests.

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RELATED:

A few weeks ago, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) essentially said the same thing:

Doggett was asked whether he would support the plan even if he found that his constituents opposed it, Doggett said he would.

And say hello to a Republican-controlled Congress in 2010.

OTHERS:

Weasel Zippers:

Massa’s considered a blue-dog Dem, let’s hope his self-described “right-wing Republican” district comes to its senses and votes his ass out of office…

The Lonely Coservative asks, “Is Eric Massa the Worst Congressman Ever?” — to which I say, uh, no. He’s got a long way to go to catch up to Jack Murtha.

Wizbang:

Massa’s condescension and arrogance toward his constituents betrays his leftist elitism of “I know what’s best for you,” an attitude of superiority that will certainly get him thrown out of office.