Rush Limbaugh: Leader of the GOP?

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You'd think so.

Republican congressman Phil Gingrey made statements to Politico yesterday telling Rush Limbaugh to "back off" after Limbaugh went on air and said he hoped that Barack Obama fails. It was an appropriate and well placed comment, as lots of Republicans were at that monet complimenting the President's efforts to meet them at the table on the stimulus bill.
Today, he got on Limbaugh's radio show and offered the following:

Rush, thank you so much. I thank you for the opportunity, of course this is not exactly the way to I wanted to come on. ... Mainly, I want to express to you and all your listeners my very sincere regret for those comments I made yesterday to Politico. ... I clearly ended up putting my foot in my mouth on some of those comments. ... I regret those stupid comments.

Puke.

Pandering to Rush Limbaugh? Seriously? This is what it has come to? Now, I don't care if your a Dem or a Pub, caving on what are obviously your true feelings because you may have offended a radio host, especially one as vile as Limbaugh, is really a sad, pathetic thing.

I prefer the views of Democratic freshman congressman Alan Grayson who said:

"Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we'd all need pain killers."

I think that's an entirely more accurate assessment.