Joe the Plumber advises GOP-ers

[sabra]

Source: Politico

Fresh off his stint as a war correspondent in Gaza, Joe the Plumber is now doing political strategy with Republicans.

When GOP congressional aides gather Tuesday morning for a meeting of the Conservative Working Group, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher – more commonly known as Joe the Plumber — will be their featured guest. This group is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who meet regularly to chart GOP strategy for the week.

Wurzelbacher, who became a household name during the presidential election, will be focusing his talk on the proposed stimulus package. He's apparently not a fan of the economic rescue package, according to members of the group.

If nothing else, GOP aides are using the appearance to get staffers to attend the 9 a.m meeting.

“In case you weren’t planning to attend CWG tomorrow morning, you might want to reconsider because Joe the Plumber will be joining us!” Kimberly Wallner, an aide to South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, wrote in a message to her e-mail list this afternoon.

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[snooper2]

1. What a fucking tool

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[county worker]

2. How is it the freepers aren't forming lines to do Joe like they are Sarah?

He's just as much a right loony as she is.

[ogneopasno]

7. Two words: BOO and BIES.

[Brother Buzz]

24. Two words: Spunk and Moxie

[Buns_of_Fire]

37. But aren't "Spunk" and "Moxie" copyrighted to Katherine Harris?

In the interest of fairness, Sarah's going to have to come up with her own. Like "Peter" and "Bilt" or "Left" and "Right" or something like that.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. With leaders like Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber

the Republican party will be back in power before you know it. :evilgrin:

[Mrs. Overall]

34. My thoughts, exactly! The perfect trio for leadership!

[Frustratedlady]

4. This only gets more and more bizarre

Can't the Repugs figure out what their problem is? They didn't need to flush out Joe, did they? What a joke.

I'd almost wish Alaska would fire Palin for not showing up at work, but then we'd have her 24/7. I'm praying she burns out her popularity before the 2012 campaign begins. That would be cruel and unusual treatment to listen to her for 2 years of "you betchas"!

No way!

[kenfrequed]

28. Typical

Well this is GOPopulism 101. They know they can no longer rely entirely on the religious reich footsoldiers in the echoing footsteps of an oncoming depression/depening-recession. They know they need to pump up their horatio alger/bootstraps game considerably higher.

They will do this by bitching about taxes, talking about the employers-parading out a string of them, and pointing out anything they think is wasteful.

The way to fight faux populism is with the real thing. Big, bold plans with explanations about what is going on and who is being helped. If the GOP makes it about all the little extra details and keep the story there we start to bleed. If we keep it about the big things: Healthcare, Jobs, Education etc. then they lose.

[KansDem]

5. Memo to Andy Warhol...

The 15 minutes has now been extended to 45.

[Mz Pip]

6. Oh good

Stupid people advising the GOP.

What else is new?

Joe got his degree in Economics from where?

[karynnj]

16. He got the degree the same place he got a plumping license

This is really really strange. This has to show a level of desperation beyond what I expected. Joe simply parroted Limbaugh in 2008 - so I think maybe he got his degree from Limbaugh's school of conservative thought. (worth less than the prize in a box of cracker jacks.)

[IndianaGreen]

8. This reminds me of the Andy Griffith character in the film 'A face in the Crowd'

That was another Joe the Plumber that rose politically through demagoguery playing his ardent followers for idiots.

[GinaMaria]

9. Interesting how they elevate someone with no expertise

Palin and Plumber both have serious flaws in their experience and skills and yet are lauded as if they are at the top of their game. What can JtP possibly contribute to the discussion other than opinion? Does he have knowledge of economics.... Oh wait what am I thinking? The repukes don't value knowledge or experience, they prefer to undermine both of these. He's perfect for them. He's smarter than * and * was president.

Crazy people. Do they really think anyone believes that they are for the average "Joe" in this country? No one is buying it and they shouldn't be selling it.

[denverbill]

10. That's got to be pretty insulting for many of those people.

Here's some dumbass, unlicensed, part-time employed plumber, who happens to ask Obama what was in reality a really stupid question (I have a chance to buy a company which would give me an income of $250k/year. Should I not do it because I might net $300 less than $250K because of your tax law changes?) and manages to give him a flip reply instead of seriously contemplating the answer, suddenly Joe is the darling of the GOP. Now they are taking policy advice from him? Kind of a slap in the face to people who have actually studied economics or business or finance to be lectured to by an uneducated plumber.

[Javaman]

11. I'm totally okay with this.

morons taking advice from morons.

the repukes still haven't figured out what "stop digging" means.

fine by me.

[mikeytherat]

14. Finding themselves deep in a hole, they suddenly stopped digging and dropped their shovels.

Because the backhoe had arrived.

May they continue digging 'til they hit magma.

mikey_the_rat

[Mz Pip]

19. They decided to dig another hole

to fill in the hole they dug themself into.

Pretty some the GOP will look like a yard full of energetic gophers. Wait. It already does.

[mikeytherat]

20. I hear "Plan B" is to try digging UP.

mikey_the_rat

[BuelahWitch]

25. Plan C is digging up Reagan...

[tanyev]

12. Oh yeah, the fearless war correspondent was there what? a week?

He knows all about war reporting now.

[LynnTheDem]

13. That rumbling noise?

It's the world-wide laughter at the incredibly silly, deeply dumb Republic Party.

:rofl:

[MineralMan]

15. Maybe Sen. Dimwit will attend, too...

[jhrobbins]

17. Please tell me that someone is going to videotape this-C-Span maybe

[JayMusgrove]

38. Yes, we need a good comedy show on C-Span LOL

[Kittycat]

18. It's so hard not to just laugh when...

It's so hard not to just laugh when I hear that an old acquaintance is a republican. Recently some old school friends added me to their facebook pages. When I looked at their info pages, I just wanted to laugh. Some are members of Palin's application, other Rush fans, and another belongs to the we love you gwb (or something like that) group. :rofl:

[CitizenPatriot]

21. I shall adopt your attitude

this happened to me recently - people I work with. I got all bent out of shape by the lies they had posted (sadly, I think they are nice people and believe this stuff) and went on a fact rampage of sorts.

:-)

I will try laughing in the future.

[Kittycat]

31. Oh, I don't bother to point out or respond to their stuff.

I just do my own thing, and pretend they don't exist :lol: I continue to post my almost daily 'liberal' articles and news links, etc.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

22. excellent. cant thank him and sarah enough. may the gop always listen to those two

[radfringe]

23. I hope the GOP listens real hard

and takes all his advice. Heck, I betcha the GOP would do really great if they had made them their chairman instead of Steele.
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I am really trying very very very hard NOT to laugh here......really....

[mac56]

26. "When your enemy is making a very serious mistake..."

"....don't be impolite and disturb him." (Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte)

[gauguin57]

27. Joe! Your 15 minutes are up!

I think we should file a class-action suit against John McCain for turning this guy into a public figure.

[McCamy Taylor]

29. John McCain is a regular fountainhead for his party....

[stubtoe]

30. ..

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[enki23]

32. they're all such... children

i just can't get over that. it gets me every, every fucking time. the so-called "conservatives" in our country are goddamned *children*.

[truthisfreedom]

33. And a special appearance by Minnie Mouse®!

And a life-sized Toy Story® representative!

[Stevethetruck]

35. Joe the CIA disinformation agent, C'mon people....LOOK at him, listen to him

He said in a telvision interview that when we was in the service, in the 80', he was GATHERING INFORMATION in LEBENON....hello....HELLOOO!! Lebenon, gathering information and now, funny he shows up on every TV station with (dis)information. It's almost like he's not really a 'plumber' at all.(plumber:see WATERGATE. They were "pliumbers" too!)It's almost like he's a disinformation agent, smart, ruggedly handsome and chock full of "facts". Wanna buy a bridge? Geez, plumber my ass.

[Hawaii Hiker]

36. I hate that fucking tool & utter phony - Joe the

FRAUD...

Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, & a fucking phony (Joe the Plumber) are the voices of the Republican party - :rofl:

Obama should win 2012 in a landslide...