David Gergen actually said...

"It would be a very bad idea. It will taint the health care bill."

"Well, Anderson, you know, people say that Washington politics is a freak show. And Eric Massa is writing a whole new chapter. I don't think we really know exactly what happened here. What's really imp..."

"What's really important is that he made an explosive charge that he was forced out of Congress by an orchestrated effort by Democrats."

"I think he's addled by all of this. In some ways, you know, he's become a political corpse. The best thing we can do is draw -- put a sheet over him and move on."