Congressman Eric Massa (D, NY) has resigned due to allegations of misconduct towards a male staffer. His problems come on the heels of Charlie Rangel's own ethics problems that ousted him from his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee. But Congressman Massa isn't exactly going quietly. His comments aimed at members of the Obama Administration are a shocking look into the life of a Washington insider. Some of them can be heard here. Yet if you think that a screaming match between two naked politicians is a funny way to go, stick around to see how Congressman Massa got here in the first place.

The Offense:

A male staffer has accused Congressman Massa of grabbing him and joking about having sexual relations with him at a wedding party in January. Congressman Massa has now admitted to the allegation.  He claims, however, that he is being forced out for a much different reason.

“Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill,” he said, “and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill, and now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.”

“The future of the Democratic Party rests on passing this health care bill,” he continued. “They can get anyone to say anything about me concerning anything at all, and in fact they did.”

The White House is dismissing these claims as "ridiculous", but a look at the unequal treatment of the two offending parties listed here would make one second guess that position.  Charlie Rangel, who faces more serious allegations of tax evasion and accepting illegal gifts, has to resign his chairmanship yet sticks around to vote on health care. Massa is forced to leave. Parroting the White House line is a reuters article.

Massa's departure brings the number of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to 253, with 178 Republicans.

His departure is not likely to have a big impact on Pelosi's ability to round up votes to get a final healthcare overhaul bill to President Barack Obama.

Massa voted against the bill that passed the House in November in a close vote. Four vacancies bring the number of House members to 431, which means 216 votes will be needed to pass the sweeping healthcare overhaul.

Yet perhaps the most amusing part of this story is Congressman Massa's description of an encounter with Rham Emanuel.

"I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me because I wasn't gonna vote for the president's budget," Massa said. "Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man? ... It's ridiculous."

Boy, President Obama, you sure know how to pick them. Yet, even with this news, it seems that Eric Massa is leaving Washington D.C. in a slightly less ridiculous way than the way in which he arrived. How does one top rumors of same sex sexual harassment and two elected officials arguing politics naked in the shower, you ask? As always, I deliver.

It seems that Congressman Massa wanted to make a big splash with the environmental community when he headed off to D.C. to start his now abbreviated freshman term in Congress. And what better way to do that then in a hydrogen powered car. His idea hit a few speed bumps, but Massa was up to the challenge.

Massa, now faced with a problem he could understand and wrap his brain around, decided that the best way to make sure the second car would appear when he needed it was … wait for it … TO TOW A SECOND FUEL-CELL CAR BEHIND A FULL-SIZE SUV! (!!?)

Problem solved!

All Massa had to do now was get the second fuel-cell car back home to New York.  What he needed, then, was … wait for it … w a i t f o r i t … A SECOND FULL-SIZE SUV!

That’s a fuel-cell powered car driving approximately half the distance from NY to DC, followed by a full-size SUV towing a second fuel-cell powered car, and a second full-size SUV to tow the second fuel-cell powered car back home.

SO, that small fleet of 3 vehicles (with 1 in tow) drove 200 miles each under their own power (600 total driven miles), then one of them drove 200 miles back (800 total driven miles).  The second car drove 100 miles under its own power, followed by the second SUV (1000 total driven miles), then the second SUV drove back to NY (300 more miles, for 1,300 driven miles), which means this caravan of four (4!) vehicles traveled approximately thirteen-hundred (1,300!) total miles to deliver one (1!) freshman congressman from New York to Washington DC.

Why does anyone take these people seriously? Here we have a President and a Congressman, both alleged environmentalists, who upon winning office, create more pollution than their predecessors, and are all the while lauded for their environmental efforts. President Obama immediately beefed up to "the most monstrous presidential limo yet". And who can forget his 800 mile pizza delivery? It seems that, if nothing else, these two have their own hypocrisy in common.