Tedisco tries to get between Obama and Congress

Republican congressional candidate Jim Tedisco, who has come under attack for not taking a position on President Obama's stimulus plan, issued a statement Tuesday night after the president's speech. The statement said in part: "I appreciated the President’s increased focus on education and health care, both of which are key for job creation in New York’s 20^th District. I hope that the President will exert his leadership and ensure that the priorities he laid out tonight do not fall victim to the lobbyists and special interests that hold sway over the Democratic leadership in Congress.  Addressing our financial challenges will require bold action.  But it will also require discipline and transparency in order to ensure that the taxpayers’ money is protected from waste, fraud and abuse."
Tedisco did not mention the official Republican response to Obama  by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and is clearly positioning himself closer to the president on the issue of the economy than Republican congressmen, governors like Jindal and the national GOP leadership are prepared to go.