Eric Massa – Can he be trusted?

If you haven’t heard the now infamous audio from Eric Massa’s Sunday interview, you should listen to it. I’ve been thinking about this all day, listening and reading what other prominent conservatives think about his verbal (over)reaction to the ethics scandal.

I want to believe him because his claims seem quite feasible given the lockstep attitude that this congress and administration has taken on all things big government. This is their time, and Obama’s the one they’ve been waiting for. The Obama administration, as well as congressional democratic leaders don’t want to let this time, maybe their only time to enact their statist agenda, to slip through their fingers. They have proved that the will of the people doesn’t matter to them. In fact the only thing that scared some of them was the fact that Scott Brown won in Mass.

Given all of that, there are a couple of things still bother me about this entire debacle. I saw this video on Michelle Malkin’s site:

It’s obvious that he is big government since he is single-payer, so that tells us where he really stands. I’m guessing that because the Senate bill doesn’t have a public option he wants no part of it. Also, he says that you can’t effectively govern this country without the consent of the governed. But the governed doesn’t want single-payer, and if that is his goal then he is contradicting himself. Perhaps he changed his mind, but I doubt it.

My last issue is the biggest, at least for me. If he feels that he is so right and doesn’t want to go out quietly in the night, then why is he resigning? If he really cared that much about stopping this health care reform, then why would he resign and let Nancy Pelosi pass the bill? That just doesn’t make since. Either this is an orchestrated farce or he is trying to protect something that he doesn’t want to get out.

Something doesn’t smell right and I imagine it will come out in the wash pretty soon.