Posts Tagged ‘Joe the Plumber’
Politics Wednesday!
Politics Wednesday!
* Ben Smith at Politco dreams the dream: Franken ’16?
* More good news: God’s told Joe the Plumber not to run for office.
* But bad news: Glenn Beck guest Michael Scheuer says America’s only hope is a massive terrorist attack. Don’t miss Beck nodding sagely towards the end. Adam Serwer says it well:
But understand, this is not unpatriotic. You can wish all manner of horrors on this country, but as long as these horrors might serve a specific political agenda, you’re not being unpatriotic. Unpatriotic is a public health-care plan. Unpatriotic is a judge modifying sub-prime mortgage loans to keep a roof over someone’s head. Unpatriotic is phosphate-free detergent. Patriotic is wishing for a terrorist attack on the United States.
Patriotism is dead, long live patriotism.
* TPM and Washington Monthly tackle the EPA SUPPRESSION!!!!! “scandal” that’s been making the rounds; turns out a hobbyist working on non-climate matters for the agency decided a memo no one asked him to write prepared in his spare time should be published alongside recommendations produced by actual experts in the field. Fox News, naturally, agrees. Inhofe (R-Jupiter) has gone further, demanding Monday a criminal investigation.
* Also in climate news: Thomas Friedman says Waxman-Markey is very, very bad and we should support it. For what it’s worth Kevin Drum agrees.
Joe the Plumber Goes to Israel
Sometimes I get the impression the right-wing doesn’t take the world very seriously.
Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter’s notebook.
The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
I’m sure there’s something about this is not totally ridiculous.
He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to let Israel’s ”’Average Joes’ share their story.”
Aha, of course! Now it all makes sense.
This Cannot Be True
Breaking radio silence on the incredible news of the Sarah Palin prank call.
A Quebec comedy duo notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state has reached Sarah Palin, convincing the Republican vice-presidential nominee she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Impossibly, it’s true. Here’s the audio.
How could the McCain campaign have ever allowed this to happen? Is anyone minding the store over there?
X the Y
In addition to being very funny, this Colbert segment on Joe the Plumber and the new proliferation of X the Ys within McCain/Palin speeches was the moment I finally realized that the point of all this is just to remind people Barack Obama has a funny name.
I admit I can be a little slow on the uptake with stuff like this.
Breaking: Justice System Not Entirely Broken
The Supreme Court has issued an injunction against the GOP’s successful voter-suppression lawsuit in Ohio.
In a unanimous 9-0 ruling, the court did not decide whether Brunner was violating federal law by not providing the information, as the Ohio Republican Party contended in its lawsuit.
Rather, the court said it was unlikely that as a private entity, the GOP had the legal authority to sue Brunner on the issue or that the lower court had the power to issue its order in this case.
Even Joe the Plumber was at risk of getting his vote suppressed by these shenanigans. Let’s hope that’s the end of this tactic for ’08.
What Don’t We Know about Joe the Plumber?
What don’t we know about Joe the Plumber? A tough 527 ad takes aim at America’s newest everyman.
Joe the Plumber Watch
Joe the Plumber Watch: Kos recounts what we know, including an update on his voter registration:
‘Joe’ appears to be a registered Republican under the name of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. Also, earlier today at a press conference, Wurzelbacher said he originally registered with the Natural Law Party.)
There’s a lot of excitement in the netroots over the fact that Joe is an obvious plant, but that obviousness doesn’t seem to have trickled up to the mainstream media just yet.
One way or another, look for this stunt to blow up in McCain’s face by the middle of next week.
Joe the Plumber Isn’t Registered to Vote
An absolutely devastating blow for John McCain: it appears Joe the Plumber isn’t registered to vote. All that hard work securing his vote, wasted!