{"id":1393,"date":"2009-01-27T19:34:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T00:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2009-01-27T21:45:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T02:45:51","slug":"house-republican-tells-limbaugh-to-back-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/house-republican-tells-limbaugh-to-back-off\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican Tells Limbaugh to Back Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congressman Phil Gingrey of Georgia demonstrates again why Republicans have lost two straight elections in an interview with the Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Responding to President Obama\u2019s recommendation to Republican congressional leaders last week that they not follow Limbaugh\u2019s lead, the conservative talkmeister said on his show that Obama is \u201cobviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell. He’s more frightened of me, than he is of, say, John Boehner, which doesn’t say much about our party.”<\/p>\n

Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga.,\u00a0did not take kindly to this assessment in an interview with Politico Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach,\u201d Gingrey said. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s easy if you\u2019re Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks. You don\u2019t have to try to do what\u2019s best for your people and your party. You know you\u2019re just on these talk shows and you\u2019re living well and plus you stir up a bit of controversy and gin the base and that sort of that thing. But when it comes to true leadership, not that these people couldn\u2019t be or wouldn\u2019t be good leaders, they\u2019re not in that position of John Boehner or Mitch McConnell.”<\/p>\n

Asked to respond to Gingrey, Limbaugh, in an email to Politico, wrote: \u201cI’m sure he is doing his best but it does not appear to be good enough. He may not have noticed that the number of Republican colleagues he has in the House has dwindled. And they will dwindle more if he and his friends don’t show more leadership and effectiveness in battling the most left-wing agenda in modern history. And they won’t continue to lose because of me, but because of their relationship with the grassroots, which is hurting. Conservatives want leadership from those who claim to represent them. And we’ll know it when we see it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rush nails it… There is serious lack of ideas and leadership coming from those who claim to represent us. We’re ready and willing to fight for them but they’re not fighting for the things that matter to us.<\/p>\n

Whatever happened to the party that used to stand for fiscal responsibility, limited government, a strong defense and free markets? Where have all the principled conservative leaders gone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congressman Phil Gingrey of Georgia demonstrates again why Republicans have lost two straight elections in an interview with the Politico: Responding to President Obama\u2019s recommendation to Republican congressional leaders last week that they not follow Limbaugh\u2019s lead, the conservative talkmeister said on his show that Obama is \u201cobviously more frightened of me than he is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[181,163,355,449,444],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-house-republicans","tag-john-boehner","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-phil-gingrey","tag-rush-limbaugh","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-mt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1408,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/28\/gingrey-to-limbaugh-oops-sorry\/","url_meta":{"origin":1393,"position":0},"title":"Gingrey to Limbaugh: Oops, Sorry.","author":"Jeff","date":"January 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Rep. 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