I’ve had this feeling this will be a he-said-he-said-leadership-said story and we’ll never quite know what happened. That may change if Massa keeps opening fire on Dem leaders, though.

“There’s a reason that this has all happened, frankly one that I had not realized,” Massa said on WKPQ radio on Sunday. “Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill, 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’ll pass.”
Massa addressed rumors circulating on blogs about his personal behavior, including incidents during an informal Navy ceremony in ‘83 on the USS New Jersey and one that occurred in a state room later during his Navy career. He insisted he had done nothing uncommon, insisting his sin was foul language.

Have at that, Rahm? Axelrod?

Speaking of Rahm . . . Massa also said: “Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn.” . . . “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.”

But he and Emanuel are old enemies.

UPDATE: For what it’s worth, the White House has said Massa’s version of the events leading up to his resignation is “ridiculous, and there is no truth to it.”