Somewhere in the formidable daily pile of snail mail to the White House today, President Obama received an apology from a Republican Congressman- and no, it had nothing to do with the debt ceiling debate. Colorado Rep. Doug Lamborn excused himself in writing today for comments on a Colorado AM radio show where he said he was afraid of associating with the President because he was a “tar baby.” He claims it’s not what it sounds like. Rep. Lamborn was, in fact, talking about the economy with host David Sirota on AM 760 in Denver, and arguing that to be associated with the President would do harm to any politicians image. He used an unfortunate idiom to call the President a pariah:
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