Republican Jim Tedisco bows down to Rush Limbaugh.
From Talking Points Memo:
There really is no dismissing Rush Limbaugh, is there? Earlier today, in the special election for Kirsten Gillibrand’s old House seat, Republican candidate Jim Tedisco declared that “Rush Limbaugh is meaningless to me.”
Now, Tedisco’s campaign has released a statement clarifying what he meant:
“Jim’s comments were in response to a question about what voters are asking him about on the campaign trail. So far, the concerns he has been hearing from voters on the campaign trail have been local in nature, such as his support for lower property taxes, fiscal responsibility, and his opponent’s appalling support for the AIG bonus loophole. That was his point and any effort to characterize it otherwise is a distortion of the facts.”
Jim Tedisco, like many other pathetic republican ass kissers, cannot extricate himself from the party’s hard line. As with anyone who bows down to Rush, he probably doesn’t want to. In my opinion, this kind of retroactive Rush-enabling is poison for the Republicans and, because of that, I wholly endorse that it continue.
According to Tedisco’s rival, Scott Murphy, he’s also a hypocrite when it comes to energy savings:
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco’s driven around in a state-owned SUV charging taxpayers $21,000 for gas. In just one year, Tedisco billed taxpayers for 230 days of per diems—money designed for officials traveling from far away but he lives just 17 miles from Albany.
Now, I have no vote for these guys since they’re out of my district, but spinelessness of any sort in government gets my goat (my opinions of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are well noted on this blog).
If you can’t be your own man in a race, who the hell are you?
