Mate Tells of Massa 'Meat-Gazing' Days on Ship

More sordid details are emerging about disgraced former NY Rep. Eric Massa and his days ogling and groping shipmates when he was in the Navy. When Massa was a commanding officer in the '90s, he used to take his wash down to the self-serve laundry, which happened to be where the junior officers slept and showered. "He was freaking totally meat-gazing!" mate Peter Clarke tells Gawker. "Everyone else used the laundry service."

Clarke imagined Massa thinking to himself: "Who needs Playgirl when I can just come down here and pretend I'm doing my laundry?" Meanwhile, the GOP yesterday called for a new investigation into how Democrats handled sex harrasment allegations against Massa by male staffers. If it goes ahead, the inquiry could well become an election-year embarrassment for the Dems. The Democrats haven't lived up to their vow of being the "cleanest and most ethical Congress in history," one GOP congressman tells the Washington Post.