El Rushbo rules the roost

Courtesy of Matt Yglesias of Think Progress, here’s footage of Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana admitting he’s so beholden to Rush Limbaugh that he won’t criticize El Rushbo for saying, “we have to bend over, grab the angles, bend over forward, backward whichever, because his father was black, because he’s the first black president.”

Here’s the video:

Noticeably absent from Rep. Pence’s remarks was any sort of admonishment of Rush Limbaugh’s comments, and DougJ from Balloon Juice summed up best what I’m thinking:

The mistake the Republicans are making here is a basic one: now they’ve admitted that they take orders from Rush, they’re on the hook for all the crazy ass things he says on the show. And that’s not a good place to be.

Ultimately, if a guy like Rep. Mike Pence wants to crawl into bed with Rush Limbaugh, then so be it, but he’d better not complain when he comes up with fleas.

H/T to The Brawler.