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"Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn, Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) said. "He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive." Massa describes a confrontation with Emanuel in a shower: "I am 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."

Read more on Real Clear Politics.

Update: New York lawmaker resigns; slams White House, Democrats for departure

Update 2: Eric Massa says he groped staffer.

From CBS News...

Eric Massa, the New York Democrat who resigned from the House in the wake of a House ethics inquiry into charges that he behaved inappropriately with male staffers, told Fox News' Glenn Beck Tuesday that he did grope a staffer. "I tickled him 'til he couldn't breathe and then four guys jumped on me," Massa said. "It was my 50th birthday." He said he never touched or groped anyone sexually, however. "I did nothing sexual," Massa said, adding that he did not act criminally.

Read more on CBS News.

Update 3: Massa interviewed by Glenn Beck

Rush Limbaugh has thrown down the gauntlet. If the U.S. Congress passes health care reform, Limbaugh says he'll leave the country.

The Drudge Report is under fire today from the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms, who said the website 'is responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate.' Of course, Drudge denies this and says he's never had a single complaint. 

The story continues below with a staff report from Fox News...

From Fox News...

The Senate's official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com "are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate," according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee. "Please avoid using these sites until the Senate resolves this issue," the e-mail read. "The Senate has been swamped the last couples (sic) days with this issue." 

Matt Drudge --- Founder of the Drudge Report. 

The Drudge Report noted that it served more than 29 million pages Monday without an e-mail complaint about "'pop ups,' or the site serving 'viruses.'"

"The site was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 times at house.gov. [10,825 visits from the White House, eop.gov]" the Drudge Report wrote.

Read more on Fox News.

From The Nashville Business Journal:

Walt Baker was fired Monday afternoon by both the Tennessee Hospitality Association and the Greater Nashville Hospitality Association — and will split with longtime business partner Phil Martin — days after he created a political firestorm by forwarding an e-mail that compared first lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not accustomed to the word she’s been hearing far more frequently in recent days: “no.” Over the past two weeks, Pelosi has faced a series of subtle but significant challenges to her authority — revolts from Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Blue Dog Coalition and politically vulnerable first- and second-term members.

Read more on The Politico. 

The White House today dismissed comments from a retiring Democratic congressman who claimed his own party hounded him out of office because he had planned to vote against President Obama's health care bill. Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., announced his resignation last week amid allegations he sexually harassed two male aides. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today called the charges "ridiculous."

Read more on ABC News. 

A "salty" comment made in the company of drunken staff members at a wedding reception on New Year's Eve was all the Democratic "forces that be" needed to push him out of the House of Representatives and prevent him from possibly casting the vote that would kill health care reform, says outgoing New York Rep. Eric Massa.

Read more on Fox News.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is catching heat for portraying Friday's labor report showing 36,000 jobs were lost in February as "really good" news. "Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good," Reid said Friday on the Senate floor. Republicans drew attention to the remark, which was captured in a YouTube clip, while bloggers railed against the Nevada Democrat. Other officials appeared a bit more tactful in their interpretation of the February jobless numbers, which showed the unemployment rate holding steady at 9.7 percent despite prior suggestions that February's record snowfall might drive that number up. Read more on Fox News.

Obama says 36,000 lost jobs is much better than expected

Sarah Palin is diving deeper in the world of entertainment. The former vice presidential candidate has been shopping a reality television show, according to Entertainment Weekly. Palin was in Los Angeles this week to pitch a "docudrama" described as a "planet-Earth type look" at the state of Alaska. She is producing with reality-show producer Mark Burnett, who is known for shows like "Survivor" and "The Apprentice."

Read more on CBS News.

The White House is putting on Congress to complete health-care legislation, setting March 18 as the deadline by which a final bill should be passed. Noting that President Obama leaves that day on a trip to Indonesia, Guam and Australia, Gibbs said on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" that "we believe that we're on schedule, based on our conversations with the speaker and the majority leader, to get something done by then."

Read more on The Washington Post.