Exclusive: Joe the Plumber suggests some members of Congress should be shot.
Exclusive: Joe the Plumber suggests some members of Congress should be shot.
On Wednesday, Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher said that if he were in Congress, he would “probably be in jail” because he’d be charged with “slapping some member.” He added, “And that’s not [bull] either.” ThinkProgress asked Joe at CPAC yesterday which members he would most like to slap. “Pretty much anybody that’s stood there and said anything bad about our troops, pretty much anybody who sat there and talked treasonous talk about America,” Joe said. He then implied that some members of Congress should be shot:
Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em. And there’d be nothing said about that, because they knew it was wrong. You don’t talk about our troops. You support our troops. Especially when our congressmen and senators sit there and say bad things in an ongoing conflict.
Watch it:
Of course, politicians aren’t the only ones Joe thinks should be banned from speaking about war. Last month, he said that journalists shouldn’t “be anywhere allowed war.” “I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting,” he said.
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Call the FBI! Sam the nonplumber is a domestic terrorist.
February 27th, 2009 at 9:58 amFor once I agree with Joe. Problem is, which ones. To be safe put them all on a cruise ship along with all the lobbyists and sink it. Chum up the water first. And start all over with anti lobby laws. Don’t get me wrong, you can talk to your rep in gov, you just can’t pay em when you talk.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:00 amI take it Joe was the paid entertainment for this conference? He’d be funny as h*ll, if he wasn’t serious, which I suspect he is.
We’ve established that he’s not a fan of the First Amendment, but I’d really like to know what he considers to be “treasonous talk about America”. My guess is that means anything that criticizes rightwingnuttery.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:01 am“Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em”
Back in the day we’d hang you for talking that way about our congressmen “Joe”.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:01 amDo you mean there are more nuggets of wisdom like that in his book? I better get my copy before they’re all gone!
February 27th, 2009 at 10:02 amHmmmm. Let’s see now . . . Johnny (”Got Milk?) Bolton, Shelley Bachmann, Joe the Non-plumber and Rush Limpballs. What a line-up at CPAC! This’ll sure get that republican party back on track.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:03 amCan Joe “the complete F-ing idiot” just shoot himself, please!?!?!?!
February 27th, 2009 at 10:03 amA right-wing poster boy!
bush would love this guy. Shoot first and to hell with the questions.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:04 amHe’s not even qualified to fix my toilet, let alone give his crackpot opinions on politics!
February 27th, 2009 at 10:06 amYou don’t talk about our troops. You support our troops.
I guess Joe hasn’t heard about the First Amendment.
But, if he’s gonna be upset with folks who didn’t support our troops, he should start in Dallas with the former Decider who sent 4,000 of them to their deaths because he attacked a sovereign nation for no good reason…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:06 amSomebody needs shootin’, all right.
Line ‘em up. Right after we execute the sentences of Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney and Addington.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:07 amHe also seemed to say that there is no such thing as a Palestinian.
Seriously, this is the last kind of person left supporting the Republican Party – ignorant, arrogant, and divisive.
They are history…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:08 amYou mean like Rudy Giuliani blaming the troops?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLSQT1FSu8A
February 27th, 2009 at 10:08 amBack in the day? What the hell is this water jockey talking about? We are witnessing the death of the GOP and the rise of radicals.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:08 am“Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em”
Really? Maybe “Joe” would like to prove this? No wonder the Republicans love this guy; he can make sh!t up with the best of them.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:09 am“I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting,” he said.
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How dare the media practice anything as seditious as journalism? The media should exist solely to parrot the talking points the government gives them. We should use Pravda as a model.
/snark off
February 27th, 2009 at 10:10 amFinally, someone’s got some sense and is speaking the truth.
I’m really glad that Joe the Plumber was as offended as I was at the treasonous statements that Rush Limbaugh made, saying that he hopes the Commander in Chief of our military fails in a time of war.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:11 amHow obsolete have you become when the only idea you have left is violence?
February 27th, 2009 at 10:14 amJoe the terrorist?
February 27th, 2009 at 10:14 am“Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em”
Maybe Joe was referring to Kent State….
February 27th, 2009 at 10:14 amJoe the Plumber…only a jackass like this would actually create a ripple with base Republicans. Not someone with a brain, or something meaningful to say…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:14 amHe also seemed to say that there is no such thing as a Palestinian.
This is a familiar, is little-used right-wing meme that’s meant, I suspect, to diminish the moral authority of the Palestinian people. It must have been invented by Rush or someone very similar, because a while back a Ditto-head friend of mine made a claim that went “there were no Palestinians before 1986″ or something along those lines.
All I had to do was ask him, “who was it that murdered Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972, then?” I didn’t need to go back any further than that to prove he was full of shit. I never heard him make that claim again.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:15 amI’m having a hard time giving a crap about anything NotJoe the NotaPlumber has to say
February 27th, 2009 at 10:16 amThe more this feckless twit feels embiggened to “speak his mind”, the more obvious it gets just how little that mind actually is.
Are clowns like this ever aware of how badly they embarrass themselves?
There was a poll over at Klannity’s website (I believe) about how wingnutters should “take back their country” (Again, as I recall…) and the choices ranged from armed insurrection to secession. They also had a show on Fox, hosted by Beck, about “the coming civil war”… the nutters just loves themselves all that smack-smacky/grab a gun talk…
The righties are going over the edge, en mass.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:16 amUmmm… I’m thinking Not.
Joe doesn’t do “proof”. That’s a left-wing liberal concept for weenie factinistas.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:17 amAfter giving his emotionally engaging speech at CPAC, “Joe” was given an urgent mission: some toe-tappers in the men’s room clogged up a toilet and emergency action was required. being a good republican, “Joe” negotiated for payment up front, even as the water began to run under the men’s room door. Finally, after they arrived at an agreement, “Joe” rushed in to do the job at hand, dissappearing into the men’s room for several hours, emerging in a disheveled state, but quite pleased with himself.
The men’s room was closed for the rest of the day.
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The “We Can Fix Any Problem” plumbing company has said that it may take a week to repair the damage, and asked that, in the future, plumbing issues be brought to professional, licensed plumbers.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:17 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
We should use Pravda as a model.
/snark off
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Don’t you mean Fox?
/snark on…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:17 amYou can’t make this stuff up! First, Bolton talks about bombs in Chicago, now good ole Joe is talking about shooting people? These people are insane!
February 27th, 2009 at 10:18 amYou know if this was a Democrat, the FBI would be knocking on their door.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:18 amP.D. Says:
You can’t make this stuff up! First, Bolton talks about bombs in Chicago, now good ole Joe is talking about shooting people?
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Don’t forget Klannity’s “Armed insurrection” poll and Beck’s “The Coming Civil War” special…
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These people are insane!
It’s fun to be snarky, but these people scare me…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:19 amWhere’s the Patriot Act when you need it? All those traitors at the CPAC should be round up and arrested. As for Joe the dumber, his statements are clearly terrorist threats. Perhaps Joe and Anne Coulter can share a cell at Gitmo. Surely, they both encourage the murdering of Americans.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:19 amBrown Shirt!
Repugnicants should be embarrassed that this is their spokesperson. Proof that America’s warrior culture has evolved into a thug clan.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:20 amCats @31, I guess the Patriot Act applies only to Liberals and Independants.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:23 amRon White said it best, “You just can’t fix stupid!”
I think as long as this love affair between the GOP and the terminally stupid lasts, we can look forward to many more years of Democratic rule.
Sorry Sarah,”the turkey-strangler”.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:23 amBack in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em.
What “day” was this? Can anybody think of a historical example when people were routinely assassinated for disparaging the armed forces? Maybe vocal opponents of the Vietnam war, like Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Bobby Kennedy? Kent State? Is that what he’s supporting?
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misshusseinmolly Says:
I’d really like to know what he considers to be “treasonous talk about America.”
You’d think that advocating shooting members of Congress would count as “treasonous talk.”
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The Republic of Stupidity Says:
There was a poll over at Klannity’s website (I believe) about how wingnutters should “take back their country” (Again, as I recall…) and the choices ranged from armed insurrection to secession.
Yeah, nothing about get a better message, go back to the drawing board on what your party stands for and elect the best representatives you can find… you know, anything that might actually help.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:26 amIt is frightening that the Republican party has elevated this man’s status to a “voice” for the party. He is the embodiment of the type of voter encouraged by the likes of Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Malkin and Savage. This is what the Republican party has become.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:26 amYou know what bothers me about his comment is that he is implying that Democrats do not support the troops, which is just not factual. I would say that the vast majority of Democrats certainly support our troops. What he doesn’t get is that many of us think the war in Iraq was based on false premises, and we want an end to it. Being against this endless money pit in Iraq does not mean that you do not support the military. I want to support the troops and bring them home from Iraq. Why the Republicans have elevated this man into a spokesman is beyond me.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:26 amThe Republic of Stupidity Says: There was a poll over at Klannity’s website (I believe) about how wingnutters should “take back their country” (Again, as I recall…)
They just got kicked out a little over a month ago and they are acting like it’s been decades… Sad that it’s all about ‘being in control’ rather than fixing our freaking country – which was their mess in the first place, so why would we want them back in control?
No tokens are going to matter… (is it just me or does Michael Steele look like someone spray painted a bald white man?)
February 27th, 2009 at 10:26 amAnd there you have it republicans, the current/future leader of the GOP.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:26 amHe’s a perfect fit. joe/rush 2012.
unbelievable Says
February 27th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Seriously, this is the last kind of person left supporting the Republican Party – ignorant, arrogant, and divisive.
They are history…
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And as long as the GOP uses somebody like Joe as their standard-bearer, this will be the ONLY kind of person supporting the Republican Party.
Which is good for the Democrats, of course — but I think the country as a whole is better served by a viable two-party system. Not to obstruct each other (preventing all progress), but to keep each other in check so that no single party runs amok.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:27 amCan someone PLEASE clarify — at what point are death threats to sitting politicians, made in public forums, actually considered to be dangerous, requiring investigation and incarceration? Because it appears that, today, you can say pretty much whatever you want and it is okey-dokey (and if questioned, you may qualify it with, “I was joking” or other quaint and dishonest sentiments).
At what point is calling for armed rebellion of the government considered sedition?
At what point are either of these activities, done in public, to be considered “inciting” people to treasonous activities?
The concept of “freedom of speech” does NOT include calling for armed rebellion to overthrow the government. However, in the reichwing mind I guess that is exactly what they believe it means…. can we educate these people with some jail time BEFORE they incite riots or rebellion? Just wondering.
Less than a year ago these people were whining that you had to be patriotic and support the president and majority party. NOW they are crying that they want an armed rebellion.
“Patriots”, indeed.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:28 amriiiight joe , because, you know, saying we’d like to bring our troops home alive and have them stop wasting their lives defending a country whose constitution says “no law shall contradict islam” is, you know, treasonous bad talk…
someone care to get samjoes thoughts about the width and breadth of the first amendment…?
February 27th, 2009 at 10:28 amThe Republican Party should just change its name to KKK and get it over with…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:29 amMmmmm, the GOP leadership is quite a sharp bunch, eh? Joe the Plumber, Palin, Jindal & Limbaugh. Gotta love it!
Amazing how the Dixie Chicks got evicerated for a single statement showing disgust at our prez yet Joe (Sam) is able to talk openly about killing people. Nice.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:31 ammisshusseinmolly Says: I think the country as a whole is better served by a viable two-party system. Not to obstruct each other (preventing all progress), but to keep each other in check so that no single party runs amok.
Sometimes I wonder if we’d be better off with a Parliamentary system where no one can be the majority, and everyone gets to be a minority. Something about the potential of majority status that attracts and endless line of crooks and liars…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:32 amWhy is anyone wasting time talking to a pretend plumber, journalist, politician?
Joe the Bummer
February 27th, 2009 at 10:32 amjakedogman says
For once I agree with Joe. Problem is, which ones. To be safe put them all on a cruise ship along with all the lobbyists and sink it. Chum up the water first. And start all over with anti lobby laws. Don’t get me wrong, you can talk to your rep in gov, you just can’t pay em when you talk.
Deuce coupe replys
Jakedogman is correct. Get rid of all the scoundrels. It seems more and more evident that the legislators in Washington do not give a damn about the people other then draining our pocketbooks.
8000 earmarks in the latest budget – are they nuts?
“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.”
February 27th, 2009 at 10:32 am– John Adams
The likes of the plumber, hannity, bolton and rush need to be confronted at every turn. To allow this fear mongering to go unchallanged would greatly harm this country. This is one reason I watch Fox and listen to right wing radio. So I can counter their arguments and challange their rhetoric. It’s draining but rewarding when I encounter one of their minions and know more about what their side thinks than they do.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:32 amexcuse me?
how old is this guy? he’s not over 42, right?
there’s still time to sign up, sam.
there should be a DRAFT SAMJOE campaign…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:33 amOn one hand, who in blazes cares what this moron has to say? On the other hand, every time he is quoted, he represents the low level to which the repugniscum party has fallen, with his ignorance, intolerance and affinity for advocating violence for those who disagree with his narrow views.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:33 amSo while he is a disgusting individual, I would like him to be seen by all American so as to embarrass the repugniscum.
> (is it just me or does Michael Steele look like someone
> spray painted a bald white man?)
its not just you…looking at him i thought “ol dirty grahm” had gotten chemo then been talked into wearing blackface…
i have to admit, its pretty amusing trying to watch a bunch of old, completely unhip white dudes try to be “kool” because they’ve finally started to realize that old age is beginning to take a toll on their main voting block…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:33 amJoe won’t go. He’s got the kid to think about. But don’t you dare talk bad about the soldier that’s filling his shoes while he’s trying to be a reporter halfway around the world.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:34 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
How dare the media practice anything as seditious as journalism? The media should exist solely to parrot the talking points the government gives them. We should use Pravda as a model.
Whachootalkinbout, Komrade?
Pravda – eta ochen khoroshaya russkaya gazyeta!
/fake russian accent off
February 27th, 2009 at 10:34 amchocolate jesus, LOL — that joke makes my morning!
February 27th, 2009 at 10:35 amwhy does anybody from the media continue to talk with this ignorant nincompoop? he’s just looking for more gratuitous attention. his stupendous ignorance shows everytime he talks in public. just ignore him!
February 27th, 2009 at 10:36 amNaw, the KKK changed its name to the Republican Party forty years ago. They can’t switch back yet — both names are tainted now. They’re gonna hafta try sumpin’ else.
Maybe “The Cowsills”… that might fool people for a while.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:37 amDr. Hussein Matt Says:
Hey Joe-the-arsehole, let’s compare DD214s then we can talk, you cowardly, life-low, uneducated goon.
I’m for that.
It is very telling that the rightwingers who cry about “supporting the troops” and “patriotic duty” and all that noise have never served. Yet they have a vast storehouse of knowledge on the military, what is good for it and the troops, and what constitutes supporting the troops. How about asking “the troops” what constitutes “supporting” them? The rightwing would lose all arguments in an honest poll (the troops want to come home — #1, plain and simple. Those who don’t agree should sign their fat lazy cowardly @sses up and go fight in these conflicts that they rally for).
Come to think of it, hey, “Joe”, you look like you’re still young enough to serve. Why not get a uniform and a weapon and head on over to Iraq or Afghanistan? That would go a long way to “support the troops”. Coward.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:38 amUh, Doosh Coop? jakedogman was being sarcastic.
You, my friend, sound deadly serious (well, as serious as you are capable of sounding, anyway). Thus your agreement with jake, plus your lame faux-populism makes you appear very silly indeed.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:39 amDeuce Coupe Says: 8000 earmarks in the latest budget – are they nuts?
Proof?
Didn’t think so…
February 27th, 2009 at 10:41 amChocolate Jesus Says: its not just you…looking at him i thought “ol dirty grahm” had gotten chemo then been talked into wearing blackface…
LOL. His nose is smaller than mine, and I’m a white woman.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:42 amAll it takes is starting a Facebook group.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:43 amYou mean when he said that Obama’s tax plan would cost him more money, even though he only makes 40k a year and would clearly be getting a tax cut?
Or when he said that it would cost him more money if he bought a business that he can’t afford, a business whose gross revenue meet the 250k limit, only taxes aren’t calculated on gross revenues, but on profits?
Is that where he was right? Or was it later in his analysis, an analysis built upon such deluded, distorted and flat-out wrong thinking?
February 27th, 2009 at 10:43 amunbelievable Says:
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Deuce Coupe Says: 8000 earmarks in the latest budget – are they nuts?
Proof?
Didn’t think so…
The beach bum don’t need proof — Limbaugh (his owner) told him what to think. that’s “proof” enough for him.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:44 amAAP, even a broken clock is right twice a day. And can you elaborate on what you think the water jockey was right about?
February 27th, 2009 at 10:44 amWow! that guy’s got class all around, doesn’t he?
February 27th, 2009 at 10:45 amJoe The Plumber:
February 27th, 2009 at 10:47 am” And if gun is not used…then I would use a 24″ Pipe wrench”..
Joe is absolutly right on this one.
Republicans do not support our troops and here is the proof
February 27th, 2009 at 10:50 amRalph @64. Great retort to the coward AAP.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:51 am> that joke makes my morning!
these goofballs make it easy…I dont think they acknowledge how much their base is made up of racist freakazoids who arent going to be pleased when they see the repubes putting up dark skinned “obama lite” spokespeople…I actually think they should follow stephen colberts lead and go for the nordic viking barbarian look…i think that would appeal to thier teutonic aryan base and also give them the sort of hip “jesse ventura” kookiness they are going for and failing miserably with in the “hip hop” direction..
February 27th, 2009 at 10:52 amIs Joe still looking to buy a plumbing business ?!!
February 27th, 2009 at 10:55 amDeuce Coupe Says: 8000 earmarks in the latest budget – are they nuts?
Yes, the people who told you this are, indeed, nuts. As are you for believing it. “Deuce Coupe” is a nearly perfect name for you, a vehicle for the power-hungry neocon elite to deliver their false messages. However, a slight alteration might improve the name: “Duped Coupe”.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:55 amOT: The Administration is making some terribly boneheaded, expensive, and self-damaging moves in its acquisition of Citibank shares. TP should subordinate the coverage of CPAC wingnuttery and turn its attention towards financial issues for a while. Obama is not doing the right thing, and if he continues, there’ll be no talking it away in 4 years.
We should not walk in lock-step with him – as the Republicans would do with one of their own.
Here’s a link to a center-left (historically) financial blogger, highlighting exactly why the opinion tide is turning, and will continue to turn, if the O Administration continues to follow this course of action:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/02/worlds-worst-investment-to-get-worse/#comments
This is not fiscal responsibility.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:56 amJoe, can you please provide a list of names and specific statements re congresspeople dissing our troops? Because other than the Abu Ghraib atrocities, I can’t recall a single instance where anyone went after the men and women in uniform. Leadership, perhaps, but never the actual troops. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
The Palestinian meme holds that Palestine was a “territory” not a country. Ah, so they have no rights to their land and the land of their ancestors? I wonder if Canada should be worried about their Northwest Territory.
LOVED Keith’s clip last night of JTNP’s book signing, complete with one person and rows of empty chairs.
PEACE
February 27th, 2009 at 10:59 amBlow Average UnAmerican nonPatriot;
Let’s compare DD214s
February 27th, 2009 at 10:59 amYou don’t have one?
Then STFU!
CPAC and the rethuglican party have just sunk to an all new low. If this is all they’ve got, 2012 will be a landslide victory! Keep up the good work GOP thugs – your ignorance is glaring!
February 27th, 2009 at 11:00 amThis clown is every bit as stupid as he appears. The only why you could be more stupid is to invite him to speak at your little fascist gathering
February 27th, 2009 at 11:01 amI really have been missing the zany antics of old SamJoe. Really no “average american” is remotely like this made up character.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:06 amIsn’t it time to get this ignoramus out of the headlines. Undeserved attention to his nonsense.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:06 ampetey wheatstraw @ 74
you’re boy is calling for a far more left-wing position then obama in regards to citi-bank
i agree with him, the government shouldnt be giving huge ammounts of tax payer money to save a failing bank from disappearing without having some sort of control
if you wouldn’t exist without gov’t dollars you shouldn’t be able to do things without gov’t approval.
anyone that says this is anti free market priniciples forgets that giving them the money in the first place is against free market principles.
but we can’t let a major entity like this simply fold and disappear, so gov’t control is a better option then just letting obviously incompetent business men play with billions of tax payer dollars.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:10 amJoe the Schmoe bloviates “Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em.”
Well Joe, in this modern day we use the power of the vote. Republican’ts who voted against the new GI Bill last year, gleefully supported and defended Bushco’s illegal war and every effort to perpetuate it, blocked every effort to improve Walter Reed Hospital, caused countless new terrorist recruits through their equally gleeful support of Bushco’s torture program proved their heartfelt disdain for our men and women in uniform. Look what happened to their majority Joe. All but gone Joe. THAT’S how you peacefully and intelligently deal with thugs who would undermine our Nation. Prosecutions and hangings for the thugs who broke the law will come next Joe so stay tuned! What Joe? You were talking about Democrats? Really? Wow, this guy is truly batshit insane! Keep it up Joe!
February 27th, 2009 at 11:10 amThe GOP salivates at the thought of death and destruction . . . especially against America. They are a terrorist organization.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:11 amThis morning, I saw at Political Animal, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com , that Steve Benen used “Joe the Plumbers” regular name, Samuel Wurtzelbacher. JtP should be addressed as that from now on. JtP was a cartoon character created for an election. That character’s fifteen minutes is way gone. Samuel Wurtzelbacher is nobody out of the ordinary and as such should be given an appropriate amount of attention. About zero.
Please start referring to Samuel Wurtzelbacher by that name and let JtP fall by the wayside.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:11 amGood to see ya, dbadass.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:12 amjjm Says:
Isn’t it time to get this ignoramus out of the headlines. Undeserved attention to his nonsense.
AMEN.
His 15 minutes of fame expired 150,000 minutes ago. I simply can’t understand why anyone, anyone gives a rip about anything he has to say….he is the failed poster boy for a failed Republican campaign who spouts ridiculous gar-bage on a regular basis – surely the Right wants him gone? Was he invited to CPAC or did he just show up? I don’t get it.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:12 amWhile we’re on the subject, what should we do to the members of the party that stole two Presidential elections?
February 27th, 2009 at 11:14 amI think “treasonous talk about America” would include threatening to shoot members of Congress and impeding the freedom of the press.
WHO really cares what this idiot thinks? WHO???
February 27th, 2009 at 11:16 amPerry logan Says:
While we’re on the subject, what should we do to the members of the party that stole two Presidential elections?
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Uh… taunt them mercilessly, including but not limited to: their obvious sexual insecurities and inadequacies, their terrible taste in fashion, and music, and culture in general, how easily frightened they are of anyone, or thing “different” from them, and least but not last, their utter and total incompetency at running the country when they HAD control…
February 27th, 2009 at 11:17 amPatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
Deuce Coupe Says: 8000 earmarks in the latest budget – are they nuts?
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Dumb Crap is prolly desperately trying to refer to the new $410BB supplemental spending bill passed this week (in at least one chamber of Congress). Don’t know if it’s gone to Obama yet. It’s meant to give the govt enough money to keep running thru this end of this fiscal yr, or sumpin like that.
It’s not “the new budget” as DC calls it. And yes, it does have many, many earmarks in it. This is prolly what JK was referring to last night too. Again, how many of those earmarks were put in there by the same GOOPers making a phony show of knocking the stimulus while they try to sneak their states’ money thru these earmarks?
February 27th, 2009 at 11:21 amI, for one, do NOT want Joe the Plumber to disappear. He demonstrates the neocon attitude and values in its purest, rawest, unfiltered form. Other spokesmen for the neocons can hide the flaws and darkness of their values better because they are trained and experienced in presenting the suave front. Joe, at least until he is trained, is like a blind cockroach who does not realize that he is in the light and exposed. This makes him available as our tool.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:22 amJust a thought. During the Bush Administration the Patriot Act and the Protect America Act were abused countless times in order to spy on peaceful organizations, political opponents, members of the media and private citizens that happened to disagree with Bush’s agenda. I feel it would be absolutely justified while the laws are still on the books for the Gov’t to take a long hard look at groups like CPAC, PNAC, NYPost, FOX News (particularly Insannity), Michelle Malkin, Joe the (non)plumber, Rush. All of these to a one have publicly incited violence against our Government in just the last few weeks. They are all welcome to criticize Obama’s ideas but when you take it to a level where you promote things like the dead monkey cartoon, advocate shooting members of Congress, yuk it up at the possibility of Chicago being turned into charred rubble, stand proudly for photos with guys holding swastika flags, pray for Obama (and with it our Nation) to fail and conduct polls asking what the preferred violent method of overthrowing the American Government would be I’d say bug their phones, freeze their assets and declare them all enemy combatants to America. How much further can the right wing push until someone attempts to curry favor with them by commiting violent acts?
February 27th, 2009 at 11:23 amSo, shoot me, Joe.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:24 amPatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
This makes him available as our tool.
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He certainly is a tool…
February 27th, 2009 at 11:25 amBe nice folks Joe wanted to go to Iraq but he a poor F’n COWAED!
February 27th, 2009 at 11:27 amcalavzma Says:
My boy? I’m a freekin’ liberal Democrat.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:27 amcalavzma Says:
Sorry, man – knee jerk reaction.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:28 amA Patriot Acting Says:
How much further can the right wing push until someone attempts to curry favor with them by commiting violent acts?
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You mean like Jim Atkisson, who upon being sentenced to life w/out parole for shooting unarmed Unitarians to death IN THEIR CHURCH simply because they were “liberals”, SMILED in court?
They found a copy of “Liberalism Is A mental Disorder” and “Let Freedom Ring” back at his apartment. Way to go, Klannity and Weiner.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:28 amTRoS, I didn’t catch that “budget” thing – I was thinking Duped Coupe was still on the stim package.
Right now I think earmarks and pork projects are precisely what this country needs to jumpstart our economy. I also agree with a post someone here at TP made a while ago – perhaps Congress should have an earmarks omnibus bill once a year and with transparency allocate money for federally funded state and local projects.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:28 amSpeaking as a Democrat; I say more of Joe the Plumber! He’s our best friend, him and clowns like Palin.
We should be glad knuckleheads like these are our opponents.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:29 amI suspect that Joe is a “plumber” in much the sense that G. Gordon Liddy was a “plumber.”
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unbelievable Says:
is it just me or does Michael Steele look like someone spray painted a bald white man?
Shhh, quiet! They’re falling for it!
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Jakedogman Says:
To be safe put them all on a cruise ship along with all the lobbyists and sink it. Chum up the water first.
The lobbyists would just eat the sharks.
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Average American Patriot Says:
He was right about obamas tax plan……
No, he wasn’t. As a matter of fact, Obama did all the talking in that exchange. Joe got totally pwn’d.
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Petey Wheatstraw Says:
OT: The Administration is making some terribly boneheaded, expensive, and self-damaging moves in its acquisition of Citibank shares.
Sounds like what I’ve been suggesting all along: buy voting stock. Then you have an appropriate vehicle for complaining about what they do with the new capital.
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spencers mom Says:
The Palestinian meme holds that Palestine was a “territory” not a country.
There’s no such thing as a Puerto Rican?
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Keltoi Says:
I simply can’t understand why anyone, anyone gives a rip about anything he has to say….he is the failed poster boy for a failed Republican campaign who spouts ridiculous gar-bage on a regular basis – surely the Right wants him gone? Was he invited to CPAC or did he just show up? I don’t get it.
He was scheduled to speak. And it seems to me he’s just starting to hit his career stride.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:30 amGee Mr. Plumber — “back in the day” they tortured and murdered people for not believing in a particular faith, burned “witches” alive at the stake, lynched uppity negroes for daring to want the same rights as whites, etc, etc. . . . you effing moron!
Ladies and gentlemen – I give you one of the leading intellects of your modern day American conservative movement — Joe the Plumbing vigilante.
Egads!
Just saying . . .
February 27th, 2009 at 11:33 amtom Says:
Hmmmm. Let’s see now . . . Johnny (”Got Milk?) Bolton, Shelley Bachmann, Joe the Non-plumber and Rush Limpballs. What a line-up at CPAC! This’ll sure get that republican party back on track.
Permanent republican irrelevancy!!
February 27th, 2009 at 11:35 am“Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em”
Uhh, isn’t the president the commander in chief? isn’t it the hieght of treason to speak ill of the commander in chief during a time of war? Why isn’t joe the plumber handing out his patriot slaps left and right at CPAC?
February 27th, 2009 at 11:37 amHi ralph.
I’ve been roadtripping with a friend. Glad to be safely home again.
So I was thinking if we could get a couple of SamJoe defenders to come out and explain how he is relevent and how he is “average” we might be able to collect some data…
-cheers
February 27th, 2009 at 11:39 amWe have a gardner\maintenance man here in the association that I live in. I think they should start asking him his opinion of things. For the life of me I have never understood how our media let us down so many ways on reporting the crimes of the Crime Family Boosh but they will not let one day go by without telling us what this moron and that moron in AK have to say. To date they have said noting other than talking points they hear on the radio dial where the hate and ignorance is spewed. Please spare us the insanity.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:39 amAverage American Patriot Says:
He was right about obamas tax plan……
first of all, it’s President Obama. second of all joe was wrong about President Obama’s tax plan. wrong about his own income and career plans, wrong about mccain, wrong about palin, wrong about palestine, wrong about shooting congressmen, wrong to hit his common law wife, wrong about what constitutes supporting the troops. the only thing he’s been right about is the level of gullibility in his fanbase. (hint, that would be you, cracker)
February 27th, 2009 at 11:42 amHate to sound all tinfoil hat brigade, but how does Joe the notaplumber even get invited to this event ?
There has to be some sort of publicity machine behind him, otherwise he would have disappeared long ago.
Joe managed to get on tape asking Obama a question. Admittedly, others have gotten their 15 minutes of fame and benefited from the same but then disappeared into the woodwork quickly afterwards (most recently, the guy looking for a job).
McCain and Palin picked him up as a rallying cry. Even at that, he should have disappeared after the election.
But now he is getting invited to sit down with the repub congresscritters. He is making it into CPAC (I know loyal repubs who would love to get in but can’t).
So just who is the media machine pushing Joe ?
February 27th, 2009 at 11:42 amkasinca Says:
“We have a gardner\maintenance man here in the association that I live in. I think they should start asking him his opinion of things.”
If you have not seen this old movie, I think you might enjoy it…
February 27th, 2009 at 11:45 amBeing There, starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine.
Joe would probably come to your house and fix your plumbing by beating it with a hammer.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:45 amJoe, politics is about debate, not shooting people you disagree with, thats terrorism.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:47 amralph the wonder llama Says:
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Uh, Doosh Coop? jakedogman was being sarcastic.
You, my friend, sound deadly serious (well, as serious as you are capable of sounding, anyway). Thus your agreement with jake, plus your lame faux-populism makes you appear very silly indeed.
unbelievable Says:
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Deuce Coupe Says: 8000 earmarks in the latest budget – are they nuts?
Proof?
Didn’t think so…
unbelievable Says:
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Deuce Coupe Says: 8000 earmarks in the latest budget – are they nuts?
Proof?
Didn’t think so…
The beach bum don’t need proof — Limbaugh (his owner) told him what to think. that’s “proof” enough for him.
PatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
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Deuce Coupe Says: 8000 earmarks in the latest budget – are they nuts?
Yes, the people who told you this are, indeed, nuts. As are you for believing it. “Deuce Coupe” is a nearly perfect name for you, a vehicle for the power-hungry neocon elite to deliver their false messages. However, a slight alteration might improve the name: “Duped Coupe”.
Deuce Coupe replys
My information comes from article published in the Chicago Tribune which in October of 2008 threw its support behind Obama for President.
“Congress, meanwhile, is rambling down a reckless path. The House on Wednesday passed legislation that hikes domestic spending by 8 percent for the rest of this fiscal year. Taxpayers for Common Sense, a non-partisan budget watchdog group, has identified 8,570 earmarks for special projects at a cost of $7.7 billion.”
If you have some better sources, please let me know so I can get at the truth.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:48 amThanks
Who the hell does this chickenhawk think he is? Dick Cheney?
February 27th, 2009 at 11:48 amAAP, that indepth thoughtful response to totally refute any possible attempt to provide factual evidence is exactly the type of educated information I’ve come to expect from you.
Well done tiny one.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:58 amJoe the plumber is a product of creative design, if ever there was a case for abortion he is it. At least the comedians will have plenty of material. Long live joe the idiot and ronald regan.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:59 amMapleStreet Says:
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Hate to sound all tinfoil hat brigade, but how does Joe the notaplumber even get invited to this event ?
There has to be some sort of publicity machine behind him, otherwise he would have disappeared long ago.
Joe managed to get on tape asking Obama a question. Admittedly, others have gotten their 15 minutes of fame and benefited from the same but then disappeared into the woodwork quickly afterwards (most recently, the guy looking for a job).
McCain and Palin picked him up as a rallying cry. Even at that, he should have disappeared after the election.
But now he is getting invited to sit down with the repub congresscritters. He is making it into CPAC (I know loyal repubs who would love to get in but can’t).
So just who is the media machine pushing Joe ?
It is an excellent question. As several posters here have mentioned, he is a godsend for the Dems because of the incredibly dumb things he continues to say, so my gut is that it is the leftie media that is pushing him. On the other hand, perhaps there are those in the rightie media who think he is so “authentic” that having him say things in favor of the right is good.
I found him a useful simalcrum during that one particular debate. He gave a more useful moniker to “everyman.” But since that debate, he has lost his fascade and now just seems like some boob that just says random stuff.
The question remains – whose boob is he?
February 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pmThe Republican pork barrel August 4,
How quickly we forget!
AT $286.4 BILLION, the highway bill just passed by Congress is the most expensive public works legislation in US history. In addition to funding the interstate highway system and other federal transportation programs, it sets a new record for pork-barrel spending, earmarking $24 billion for a staggering 6,376 pet projects
7.7 billion doesnt even come close to the 24 billion the GOP porked…
February 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pmPajamas media is behind Joe and I dont think they dont appear to be a ‘lefty’ organization Keltoi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamas_Media
February 27th, 2009 at 12:14 pmTime for Joe The Plumber (…Eric Cantor, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, ad nauseum…) to sit down and shut the f**k up.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:14 pmHow about we just all (yes, media folk, this means YOU) stop giving this guy air or print space? He is clearly waaaaay over his head, and it is scary to think that the person who gave him this soapbox was McCain, who people actually VOTED for (he could have made a whole Cabinet position – Secretary of Fraudulent non-Plumbers) to lead our country… However, the best solution for Joe, Sarah, McCain, Jindal, Rush and all their ilk is to just ignore them – if they could not find an outlet to spread their vitriolic anti-Americanism, they might have a better chance to fade into history, like a bad dream. I think it is time to just stop paying attention to them, although I do think the FBI, Homeland Security and Secret Service should be visiting with him – up close and personal. Then in his next diatribe he could be complaining about how “back in the day” you could say anything because of the First Amendment but now you threaten a Congressperson and they are all over you. Bye Bye Joe – you are way over your 15 minutes.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:16 pmWurtzelbacher is a nazi and a traitor. And currently, like the rest of the extreme right, he is inciting acts of terrorism.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:18 pmI am definitely against pork barrel spending, but its clearly hypocrisy when the right wingers talk about reckless spending when in 2005 they porked 24 billion and are beside themselves when the Dems spend 7.7 billion.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:19 pm“Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em.”
Really, Not-Joe-Not-a-Plumber? So when, exactly, was this? Can you provide even one example from American history? No? Ya sure?
Then stop just pulling stuff out of your butt! Rush Limbaugh has a patent on that, and he’ll sue your sorry ass!
February 27th, 2009 at 12:21 pmSome here have stated that I was sarcastic when I said put all of congress and the lobbyists on a cruise ship and sink it. I would expand it to worthless admin officials like chris cox, dumbsfeld, cheney, bush, et al. We would need two cruise ships. This is not funny. I would fully support it and would consider it an eco friendly event. Clean up the trash, feed the fishes and create a reef.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pmJoe Wurzelbacher is a F**KTARD!
February 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pmAAP, Show me that that spine of yours is connected to some type of grey matter in your skull and back up your take on things. If you just spew without fact you have no educated argument and sound more like some child who didn’t get their way or some bully that doesn’t want to understand there are more well thought out answers than he has.
Until you do that I can only go on the cowardly comments you displayed when you so myopically attacked those who believe viewing the coffins of our returning soldiers is reminder of the ultimate cost of combat.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pmDeuce Coupe Says:
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Uh, Doosh?
Any count yet on how many of those earmarks were inserted by GOOPers who are decrying the stimulus bill and putting on a phony show of refusing the money whilst they try to get their states money thru these same earmarks that have you so upset?
February 27th, 2009 at 12:25 pmKeltoi, I think your suspicion is justified. Sam Wurzlebacher is certainly more useful for the left than the right, it seems to me.
Yet how would the “leftie media” get him an invitation to speak to the Republican congressional caucus? How would the leftie media get him into CPAC?
I support his right to free speech, and I even support his right to loud speech, as that helps deliver his message. But it appears to me that the Right really does value his insights, such as they are.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pmXisithrus Says:
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Pajamas media is behind Joe and I dont think they dont appear to be a ‘lefty’ organization Keltoi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamas_Media
Yeah, Ralph at 127, it does indeed seem a rightie outlet gave him his Gaza gig…I don’t get it, but it does seem to be the case. Thanks for the link, X.
Ye Gods, why am I not a political strategist? Could anyone be dumber than the guys that think JtP is helping them?
February 27th, 2009 at 12:38 pmScan the agenda for today and tomorrow at CPAC. My goodness, but those are familiar names from the Reactionary Right. Looks like lots of whining about President Obama’s agenda, lots of puffery from Newt, and more whining about global warming.
Here’s a favorite: Breakfast with Phyllis Schlafly: “Doing the Impossible”
Eating breakfast with Phyllis Schlafly definitely qualifies as impossible for me. I can’t eat and gag at the same time.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:40 pmJust repeat after me:
Palin, Joe the Plumber, Limpballs, Tranny Coulter, Steele, Hannity, Jindal, Fox News.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Bring ‘em on! You betcha’ (wink, wink).
February 27th, 2009 at 12:45 pmDeuce Coupe Says:
My information comes from article published in the Chicago Tribune which in October of 2008 threw its support behind Obama for President.
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If you have some better sources, please let me know so I can get at the truth.
Thanks
Um… Obama wasn’t President then. Obama is submitting his first-ever budget now. So any sources about the current budget proposal being submitted by Obama would probably be better, since you seem to be using Bush’s last budget to criticize Obama.
Besides, McCain was the only one saying that the problem with government spending was the “earmark” appropriation process to begin with. He never did explain why that particular appropriation process was more of a problem than others, though.
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RMcD Says:
How about we just all (yes, media folk, this means YOU) stop giving this guy air or print space?
I’m sure that would be very helpful to the Republic Party.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:49 pmI’m sorry that I missed CPAC. I’ve never been to a comedy festival before.
http://jackrabbitcafe.blogspot.com/2009/02/from-democratic-underground.html
February 27th, 2009 at 12:54 pmThinkProgress.org: Please stop reporting on Joe and he will quietly fade away. Thanks.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:55 pm1. The Republic of Stupidity Says:
Deuce Coupe Says:
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Uh, Doosh?
Any count yet on how many of those earmarks were inserted by GOOPers who are decrying the stimulus bill and putting on a phony show of refusing the money whilst they try to get their states money thru these same earmarks that have you so upset?
Deuce Coupe replies,
The figure that I heard from a Democrat when being asked about the 8000 earmarks was “well 40% are Republican”. Please note that this was one of those ambush interviews where they catch the guy in the hall.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:57 pmIt does not matter, there is just too much of this going on in this time of financial crisis and we have to get our legislators on another path. I have at left messages and emailed my representatives (Republican and Democrat) and we all need to do this.
“Joe” the tax dodging “plumber” is today’s IDEAL Republican.
Seriously. He’s a fantastic and willing hypocrite. A telegenic ignoramus and a smiling straight faced liar who never misses a chance to demonstrate his ability to deny the facts.
“Joe” is ordained by Dobson and defended by Rush. Baby, in today’s Republican world, that’s GOLDEN.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:57 pm1. PatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
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Deuce Coupe Says: 8000 earmarks in the latest budget – are they nuts?
Yes, the people who told you this are, indeed, nuts. As are you for believing it. “Deuce Coupe” is a nearly perfect name for you, a vehicle for the power-hungry neocon elite to deliver their false messages. However, a slight alteration might improve the name: “Duped Coupe”.
Deuce Coupe replies,
My deuce is not exactly for the power hungry, small block Chevy (283), Duntov cam and a 500 CFM Edlelbrock carb., about 235 HP at the flywheel. I don’t know about “elite”, I built it myself.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:58 pmSo, is his hero Senator Preston Brooks of South Carolina, who beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner in 1856 with a cane, over some insult to his honor? It took Sumner 3 years to recover.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:10 pmMy deuce is not exactly for the power hungry, small block Chevy (283), Duntov cam and a 500 CFM Edlelbrock carb., about 235 HP at the flywheel. I don’t know about “elite”, I built it myself.
I used to have one of those, too. It was fun watching the pistons move up and down through the clear plastic cylinder walls. After awhile I took out the little electric motor that turned it over and made a fan with it.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:23 pmToo bad STOOOOPID didn’t name any members of Congress who talked BAD about our troops???
Why is this non-business owner, plumber helping LIAR man STILL BEING QUOTED!! CPAC, scrape, scrape, scrape . .
February 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pmHurry Joe “the Wingnut Hypocrite” Wurzelbacher, you only have 18 months left to enlist and join our dedicated troops in Iraq!
February 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pmThen maybe you could pay off those pesky back taxes.
SamJoe, Hannity, Beck, Rush, Jeb Bush, Bolton, etal have all issued seditious statements. They should all be brought to justice.
February 27th, 2009 at 2:03 pmBesides the fact that there was never such a day, Joe is saying that our soldiers fight for our freedoms so that we can be executed by chicken hawks for exercising them.
February 27th, 2009 at 2:06 pmHi Keltoi,
Thanks for the reply. But, as another person askied first, how would the liberal media get Joe into CPAC ? That is a fairly “high up” honor. I could see Rush Limbaugh getting in because of his ratings. But Joe seems to keep getting attention without any indication of having a large following.
I can see an angle that the “common man” / “Joe 6-pack” who is laid off, etc. might have some vicarious thrill out of Joe the nonPlumber. But the minuses of Joe to the RNC far exceed this benefit.
Oh well, lets keep searching.
February 27th, 2009 at 2:36 pmActually, Joe, we’d rather shoot YOU. But so far, you and the neocons are doing a tidy job of shooting yourselves in the foot on a daily basis.
Why don’t you travel, personally, to shed the light of your patriotism upon our troops? They’re facing death, dismemberment, and incalculable damage daily because of an illegal war promoted by your lying role models.
I’m certain that you’d build INCREDIBLE morale.
February 27th, 2009 at 2:51 pmI don’t even know where to begin in describing how retarded Not-Joe the Not-Plumber is, nor how ridiculously pathetic the Reich-wing has become. It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Horrifying, yes- but you just can’t look away. That would explain our fascination with the complete nonsense spewing from, quite possibly, the dumbest man in America.
February 27th, 2009 at 2:56 pmConservatives don’t even realize what a sorry lot they are: Limbaugh is their ideological leader and Joe the unPlumber is their spokesman? I almost feel sorry for them.
It’s like watching the blind leading the blind. Only in this case it’s the bigot, ignorant hatemongers leading the bigot and ignorant sheeple.
February 27th, 2009 at 3:05 pmThinkProgress.org: Please stop reporting on Joe and he will quietly fade away. Thanks.
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February 27th, 2009 at 3:05 pmPleas no!. This theather of the absurd is pure magic. To think there are those that think being a tradesmans gopher in your forties represents “average” is just pure comic gold. I never want SamJoe to go away. I wanna laugh at the notion that some schmuck is siting in front of a tv in some bullshit place like say maybe Applebee’s drinking a tall domestic swill served by a single mom named Mandy and explaining to some other schmuck that old SamJoe speaks for the peoples…
Hey joe,
February 27th, 2009 at 3:40 pmNot only are you a looser, you are stupid. Name anyone in Congress that bad mouthed the military…name the ones who talked treason…you are lower than a looser…you are a SCAB…YOU ARE NOT A PATRIOT…just go away!!!
Get JTB a brown shirt, brown pants and a really bad bowl haircut when he gets some hair. I’d imagine he dreams a sick dream of Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank.
Better dead than red, JTB?
Kill the yellow hordes?
As much as JTB wants to be Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, he’s just a wanna-be Frank Burns living a plumber’s Dwight Schrute existence.
February 27th, 2009 at 3:49 pmHey Joe, or should I use your REAL name Samuel?
How about getting that plumbing license?
Or have you given up on that? I thought you were going to buy the business.
This guy is a failure at plumbing, at politics, at journalism and at book writing.
February 27th, 2009 at 3:53 pmHe has that common characteristic of failures in that they have to have enemies to place blame on and all that free time from failing at his attempts at a ‘career’ gives him plenty of time to hang out, flapping his gums.
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In front of a TV at Applebee’s, drinking domestic swill, served by a single mom named Mandy?
Wow, that’s amazingly like the kind of stereotyped nonsense Joe the Plumber comes up with.
February 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pmAre you perhaps explaining to some other enlightened ones that you speak for them?
If you don’t like ignorant stereotyping that dehumanizes a set (or class) of people you ought not to engage in it yourself. It’s the same crap no matter which class signifiers you dress it up in.
“Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em.”
Of course, Joe is talking about “in the day” when American’s, as British colonists couldn’t talk bad about the army (Red Coats as we used to call them “in the day”) without the King shooting us for treason.
Joe is a true “conservative”, not ready to buy into all that “post-revolutionary war, liberal, democracy/republic” type crap.
Little known fact, this type of reasoning is why Joe was never able to actually become a licensed plumber. When taking the test he started remembering how “in the day” plumbing was just an outhouse in the back yard and refused to finish the test because of its “post-revolutionary war, liberal, indoor plumbing” bias.
February 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pmWell Joe may be on a tear here but if you want to fix the depression we are in, we have to get Chris Cox in jail, he allowed double short selling ETF’s to become a legal instrement for trading. He reversed the uptick rule and he looked the other way when Naked Short sellers broke the law. I think he may be the single most dangerous individual ever allowed in Government. He edges out X-pres George B. by about a full inch.
Please FBI, CIA, KGB – PLEASE INVESTIGATE CHRIS COX, EX head of the SEC. PLEASEEEEEE!
February 27th, 2009 at 4:03 pmWow, that’s amazingly like the kind of stereotyped nonsense Joe the Plumber comes up with.
February 27th, 2009 at 4:04 pm—
Do your thing, I’ll do mine. Mine has a more surreal yet reality based comic twist…
Hey Joe! Did you -serve_
February 27th, 2009 at 4:08 pmI didn’t think so-
Sit down, STFU.
And stop making terroristic threats against members of the august body of Congress- I’m sure it’s a FELONY, sh*t for brains.
Crazy
February 27th, 2009 at 4:53 pmPeople
Against
Civilization
No, Joe couldn’t buy that multi-million dollar business because Obama might have raised his tax by nearly $900 if he made $280,000 in personal income.
February 27th, 2009 at 4:57 pmBecause of the threat of possibly having to pay $900 more income tax, if he became wealthy, Joe decided to remain a poor unlicensed handy man.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:00 pmDid that say Joe is slapping his member?…again? Well whatever keeps him busy.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:00 pmIf a Republican ever gets elected president, Joe will decide to become wealthy. Until then, it just isn’t worth it.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:02 pmIt seems like Joe the Plumber was born too late; he would have made a great Nazi!
February 27th, 2009 at 5:03 pmIt seems like the Nazis were born too early; they would have made great Republicans.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:06 pm.
So it’s not assault when “Joe the Assaulter” does it?
OR, It’s not Treason when “Joe the Assaulter” raises the stakes to murdering Federally Elected Officials?
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February 27th, 2009 at 5:14 pm.
So, Joe thinks burning the American Flag is an act of treason…
… But advocating the murder of Federally Elected Officials isn’t?
This man is nothing but “Joe the clueless”.
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February 27th, 2009 at 5:17 pmCPAC will have to change their name to SPAC (stupid republican political action committee) if they continue to use Joe the Plunger as a spokesman… what a complete moron.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:26 pmAnother Hal Turner clone heard from the peanut gallery.
It utterly amazes me that even diehard 27%ers would even listen to this bald-headed bozo much less applaud him. I mean, it’s not as if he’s worth reading, if his last book signing was any indication.
So why are we still keeping t his clown in the public eye while forgetting about Richard Clarke, Sibel Edmonds, Susan Lindauer, Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame? These are all people who devoted a good part of their lives to keeping us safe and getting the truth out there.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:42 pmCongress, I just want them to leave.
February 27th, 2009 at 6:29 pmI think Joe is referring to the great model that conservatives here are trying to emulate, the old Soviet Union. You see in that country the communists could work with conservatives. It was the liberals they shot. Remember, just as a point, the Soviet government hated the theory of evolution.
February 27th, 2009 at 6:49 pmSheez! Why is this guy news? Wasn’t his fifteen minutes of fame over back in November of 2008? So are we now to have to periodically hear the occasional blubbering from this guy until the Republican roll him out again during the next election?
February 27th, 2009 at 7:04 pmHe talks about the military the way radical muslims talked about Allah after that Danish cartoon came out a few years back. Listen up, Joe, the military is not the offical religion of the Unitied States!
February 27th, 2009 at 7:54 pmMe Joe Plumber. You talk bad about me troops. Me hit you with club!
February 27th, 2009 at 7:57 pmwhats the difference between joe the plumber and saddam hussein? answer: not much.
I am not a fan of having a one party country, but if joe the plumber and sarah palin represent the best the republicans have to offer…..
Joe is a real redneck who doesnt seem to understand freedom of speech and what that means. Taking out people and shooting them because they say things you dont like is pretty much what Saddam Hussein did, and it is captured on that famous video.
Joe should bow the hell out of political commentary and go get himself a real plumbers license. I would suggest sticking to fixing pipes and toilets. That is much more useful to folks than this ignorant offensive vomit of his. maybe he can start a new KKK or something like that, he sounds like he would fit in well there.
February 27th, 2009 at 8:08 pmLets give a big thanks to John McCain for introducing us to Joe the Plumber.
If McCain wasn’t nuts for using an inane, out-of-nowhere strategy to grasp at voting straws, showing us this authoritarian underside of the Republican/Libertarian parties sure will make anyone think twice about putting the check next to either party box when registering to vote.
February 27th, 2009 at 8:09 pmHere is an example of freedom of speech! Joe needs to shut the hell Up! He is an idiot, and I resent the fact that he is still on the “news?”Don’t we have important things to talk about? Gimme a break!!!
February 27th, 2009 at 8:16 pmJoe also said that he would shoot anyone who said anything bad about Motherhood or apple pie. Joe added that anyone who doesn’t eat at McDonald’s at least once a week is probably a traitor.
February 28th, 2009 at 12:03 amJoe should go to a Klan rally to accept his Man of the Year award.
He’s earned it.
February 28th, 2009 at 12:34 amHey Joe,
I take it you have a (black) list of these UnAmerican members of Congress, and substantial evidence of their bad mouthing of our troops. Right
Name One person Joe, you phony bag of talking points, name ONE.
I thought so
February 28th, 2009 at 2:47 amHey Joe where you going with that gun in your hand. “I’m going to shoot my congressman, Joe the terroist, to bad Mcaine wasn’t elected he could have made him the war czar.
February 28th, 2009 at 7:15 amWho is this guy? Guns, Violence, are we supposed to be better than that? He may be from Ohio, but I don’t consider him a neighbor. He obviously is having someone feed him this crap, because I can’t honestly believe that those many violent acts came from one persons thought process. Or is it he just wants his 15 minutes of fame? Joe – The Politician – shut the F___ up. You do not represent me, My State of MY COUNTRY!!
February 28th, 2009 at 9:04 amThis is why I don’t support the “Fairness Doctrine.” I think it’s great that these wingnuts get to rant on AM radio 24/7 and Fox. The progressives have NPR and websites like HuffPo and ThinkProgress to support our views and expose the ridiculous comments and ideas of the right. I say let them keep talking. More and more decent people will keep jumping ship if we just continue to show the world what these extremists are saying. Maybe a new center right party will emerge.
I would love to know what percentage of the population actually tunes in to Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, etc. I know they have many listeners, but the majority of Americans are clueless about who these people are.
February 28th, 2009 at 11:02 amsometimes it takes three decades for failed policies to come to fruition.collapsing economy,criminals with teeth(6philly policeman gunned down),small government so the wieight is placed on the state government,tax cuts that really only benefit the rich,defense spending approx25%of gnp,and a republocan party that wants more of the same.claiming to be fiscal then you go and look at what they’ve spent.its quite the opposite.also the party of JESUS until you take a good look.now almost every state has a severe defecit,especially urban areas and the inialation of the middle class.i can only agree with bush the 41st,reaganomics is voo doo economics.now its going to be a long and expensive road to sanity.the party is over and its up to us as a nation to clean it up.its going to be expensive.it was a rather lavish party for most.
February 28th, 2009 at 11:52 amSo Sam, the Domestic Terrorist, wants members of Congress shot? Please Sam, just show up at the Capitol security checkpoint with a weapon. I can’t wait for your latest incarnation as Sam, prisoner #5978042.
February 28th, 2009 at 1:48 pmThanks Joe – you’re just who the trogs need speaking for them
February 28th, 2009 at 9:21 pmHas he ever met Michele Bachmann? They would fit perfectly.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:47 pmJoe, your right!!!
February 28th, 2009 at 11:58 pm“Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em”
Ya like back in the day when a black man would get the uppity idea that he could run for President they would just shoot em?
ya like back in the day when a jewish man wanted to ride in a car with black men they would shoot em?
What a moron, I dont care if he is bigger I ever ever EVER see him in real life he getting his teeth knocked out.
March 1st, 2009 at 3:27 pmWhat a moron, I dont care if he is bigger I ever ever EVER see him in real life he getting his teeth knocked out.
Let me know when you get the balls to confront him, I will have a ringside seat, with the media right behind me!
March 1st, 2009 at 6:13 pm