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"ABBA was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I thought Neil Young said rock and roll would never die." Stand-up comedian Chris Martin opens for The Recliners March 19, 2010 at Cafe Diem in Richmond, VA.
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DCBureau.org - The resignation of Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) two weeks ago was a loss to New York industries dependent on a precious resource: clean water. With energy companies aggressively pursuing gas leases in the state, Massa brought the drilling debate to the federal level. He supported well permitting delays in the Marcellus Shale – a formation many geologic experts are calling the world’s largest natural gas field – to ensure state drilling regulations protect the environment.
“If we lose access to freshwater, if we have well heads every 10 acres, if we have night flares, if we have the smell coming from sulfuric and sulfur laden chemicals, we are going to drive tourists out of the very area that we’ve spent a generation cultivating tourists to come to,” he said.
Skeptics of drilling fear hydraulic fracturing, a widely used technique to extract natural gas, will ruin New York’s pristine water – which includes hundreds of miles of coastline, 7,500 lakes and ponds, and 50,000 miles of rivers and streams – killing its multibillion dollar tourism industry. Hydraulic fracturing is when well operators inject a mixture of water and chemicals – about two to nine million gallons of water with chemicals making up about one to five percent of the total volume – into wells at extremely high pressure to crack and prop open the shale.
Joyce Hunt, owner of Hunt Country Vineyards in Branchport, N.Y., said she got involved in the gas drilling debate when Chesapeake Energy Inc. decided in the fall of 2009 that it wanted to dispose of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing about three miles from her vineyard in Pulteney, N.Y. The proposed waste disposal site was an abandoned gas well on the west side of Keuka Lake in the center of the wine trail.
“They were going to be bringing up truck after truck, a lot of it from Pennsylvania, to dump the hydro-fracing – the spent hydro-fracing fluid, which is water laced with chemicals, some of them toxic – in a well about eight-tenths of a mile above Keuka Lake,” said Hunt.
Massa discussed plans for the disposal well last February at a public meeting in Pulteney, N.Y. He and other panelists – including Joyce Hunt’s husband and co-owner of Hunt Country Vineyards, Art Hunt; Cornell University engineering professor Tony Ingraffea; and Sierra Club executive committee member and staff attorney, Rachel Treichler, to name a few – opposed the plan, which would pump about 18,000 gallons of wastewater into the well daily over 10 years.
Hunt said opponents of hydraulic fracturing need “all the voices” they can get. Massa was one the “best spokespeople” for New Yorkers, she said.
Massa wasn’t the only hydraulic fracturing skeptic in Congress. Last summer, Representatives Dianna DeGette (D-Colo.), Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) and Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Senators Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) – introduced identical bills that would require oil and gas companies to disclose materials in hydraulic fracturing fluids in compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act. And last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will spend $1.9 million to study how hydraulic fracturing impacts drinking water.
Derek Wilber, president and wine maker of White Springs Winery located on the northern end of Seneca Lake outside Geneva, N.Y., agreed drilling should be delayed because people “who are busy running a business” need a “better idea” of what decisions are being made.
“I think the bigger battle that’s being waged is on the state level, not the federal level,” says Wilber.
New York Department of Environmental Conservation conducted an environmental impact statement on the use of horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing last year and released its findings for public comment.
Concerned that large corporations sway federal policy, opponents believe they have a better chance of influencing drilling through state officials. But Hunt said she has little faith they can overpower the industry interests. “Just given the way everything has been going lately with corporations being given the same rights as people, I think as individuals we have less and less of a voice in how things go,” said Joyce Hunt. “I think given the number, the power of the oil and gas industry and the money they spend in Washington with lobbyists, it’s tough.”
Allison Sickle reporting.DCBureau.org - The resignation of Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) two weeks ago was a loss to... more
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Rush Limbaugh Hurls Racist ‘Massa’ Comment At David Paterson (AUDIO)
Rush Limbaugh hurled a racist comment towards embattled New York Governor David Paterson on his radio show Tuesday.
Rush Limbaugh’s Racist ‘Massa’ Comment…’David Paterson will become the ‘Massa’ (AUDIO...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/rush-limbaughs-racist-massa-comment-david-paterson-will-become-the-massa-audio/
Discussing the resignation of Rep. Eric Massa and the possibility that Paterson would appoint his replacement or call a special election, Limbaugh invoked Massa’s last name in a reference to slavemasters, also known as “massas.”Rush Limbaugh Hurls Racist ‘Massa’ Comment At David Paterson (AUDIO)... more
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What in the world has happened to our once great republic? The U.S. Congress has been turned into a festival of legalized bribery. We all know that at least on some level, but when Glenn Beck interviewed Eric Massa the other day, what Massa had to say totally stunned many of us.What in the world has happened to our once great republic? The U.S. Congress has been... more
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
Image courtesy of Flickr user midv4lley, via Creative Commons LicenseFormer Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) punked conservative talk show host Glenn Beck yesterday by recanting his earlier allegations that House Democrats forced him out of office because he refused to vote for health care reform. Massa resigned on Monday amidst allegations that he sexually harassed one or more male staffers.
Adele Stan has a nice recap of the implosion of Massa’s political career at AlterNet. Massa initially said he was stepping down because he had cancer. Then the news broke that the House Ethics Committee was probing allegations that Massa sexually harassed a male staffer.
Beck gave Massa the entire show. Clearly Beck was hoping the former congressman would lay bare nefarious wheeling and dealing by House Democrats to pass health care reform. Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly argues that the Massa train wreck shows the weakness in the whole Beck schtick. Beck didn’t bother to find out whether there was a conspiracy. He just assumed Massa was going to tell him what he wanted to hear.
Massa and the health care reform conspiracy
As Tim Fernholtz points out in TAPPED, the notion that Massa was forced out over his stance on health care reform was never very promising, even by conspiracy theory standards: Why would Massa take this moment to start listening to the Democratic leadership, having blithely ignored them throughout his brief political career?
More to the point, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel didn’t force Eric Massa to act like a drunken sailor in front of his staff. Clearly, the Dems are relieved to see Massa go. In addition to a near total lack of interpersonal boundaries, he was an unshakable “no” on health reform. The guy is clearly a loose cannon, in the saltiest and most nautical sense. If House Dems had seized the opportunity to get rid of him, that would have been more sound management than conspiracy.
‘I failed.’
But under the bright lights, Massa dropped the conspiracy allegations and blamed himself for ethical lapses, according Eric Kleefeld of TPMDC. “I wasn’t forced out. I forced myself out. I failed,” said Massa.
In fact, Massa seemed eager to preemptively confess to even more inappropriate behavior: “Now, they’re saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe and four guys jumped on top of me,” Massa told Beck, “It was my 50th birthday. It was kill the old guy.”
Massa even brought visual aids to assist in his own indictment. He showed Beck a scrapbook of a “crossing the line” ceremony from his Navy days. “It looks like an orgy in Caligula,” Massa chirped. His point being that he never got out of the creepy, gropey habits he picked up in the Navy.
He even whipped out an x-ray of his own gut to prove that he really does—or at any rate, really might—have cancer.
By the end of the show, Beck apologized to America for wasting the country’s time.
Kucinich still opposed to reform
Meanwhile, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) remains steadfast in his opposition to health care reform, calling it a giveaway to the insurance companies. On the Ed Schultz Show, insurance company whistleblower Wendell Potter urged Kucinich to quit posturing and take the deal, according to Ruth Conniff of The Progressive. Potter agrees that the deal is a massive giveaway to insurers, but he thinks Kucinich is unrealistic to hold out for a better deal.
Stupak smoke signals
Fervent anti-choicer Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) has been threatening for months to derail health care reform over the abortion issue. This week, Stupak was back in the news with some cryptic remarks. He told a town meeting that there was “no such thing as a compromise” on the abortion issue, but he also said that he was more optimistic than he was a week ago that the House leadership could offer him some kind of acceptable accommodation. Stupack insisted that any such deal would have to be written before the bill goes to the Senate for a vote.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
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Outgoing Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) is scheduled to appear on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show Tuesday night for the full hour.
Beck announced the appearance on Twitter on Monday:
Eric Massa On Glenn Beck: Rahm Emanuel Forced Me Out Of Office..VIDEO...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/eric-massa-on-glenn-beck-rahm-emanuel-forced-me-out-of-office-video/
“Tomorrow at five: congressman Massa for the full hour,” Beck wrote. “I just spoke with him off air. All Americans need To hear him. Exclusive 2morrow fox.”
Since announcing last week that he would step down from his Congressional seat amid sexual harassment allegations, Massa has been vocally lashing out at his critics and the White House..03-08-2010
Outgoing Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) is scheduled to appear on Glenn... more
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First-term Rep. Eric Massa announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, saying his doctors have told him that he can’t continue to “run at 100 miles an hour.”
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But several House aides told POLITICO that the House ethics committee has been informed of allegations that the New York Democrat, who is married with two children, made unwanted advances toward a junior male staffer.First-term Rep. Eric Massa announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection,... more
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Eric Massa of New York’s 29th District has been making the case for single payer healthcare. The advice he was given when he decided to run for congress was, "don’t do it." As a first year congressman he’s been advised not to take a stand, especially on a hot button issue like healthcare. But rather than accept the conventional wisdom, Massa has voted against the bank bailout and fought loudly for single payer healthcare. A cancer survivor, Massa says that the healthcare system in this country is literally killing people. And Massa says that he hopes a public option is part of any healthcare bill that emerges from congress this year.Eric Massa of New York’s 29th District has been making the case for single payer... more
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