Joe The Plumber Admits He Knows “Little” About EFCA, Gets Jeered By Workers
By Heather Wednesday Apr 01, 2009 11:00amh/t The Political Carnival and The Plum Line
Joe the Plumber gets called out for being the clueless shill he is. He hasn't read the bill and can't answer questions about it, but he's more than happy to take someone's money to go out there and campaign against it. There's the face of the Republican Party, folks. Doesn't have a friggin' clue and willing to say anything for money.
From The Plum Line, whose title I stole for this post and could not have stated any better:
Oof. Looks like Joe the Plumber’s campaigning against the Employee Free Choice Act in Pennsylvania didn’t go so well.
Mr. Plumber, whose appearances were organized by the anti-EFCA group Americans for Prosperity, admitted he knew “little” about the legislation after being confronted with questions at one of the events yesterday in Harrisburg by a Pennsylvania progressive group. He was also heckled by dozens of Pennsylvania union workers, according to a local report.
And after his rough time in Harrisburg, he skipped a subsequent rally in Philadelphia, according to union officials who were there.
Here’s some video of the grilling Mr. Plumber took from the group, Keystone Progress, which prompted the irritated plumber to respond: “I know a little about a lot of things. But I don’t know a lot about everything.”
Pressed on the specifics of the law, Mr. Plumber repeatedly refused to answer, and finally lost his cool, telling his questioner: “Drop it, brother, drop it. I never said I was an expert, man.”
Not an expert indeed.
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Wow now that he isn't being shielded by his "sponsors' goons" he's not looking like he likes the spotlight he is getting. Let's hope he sees the light and goes away quietly. Back to Arizona, or whereever JohnMcCain found him before he got dumped into OH.!
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Get people to Send a free prewritten fax to Sen. Minority leader Mitch McConnell telling him to STOP EVERY REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTER, get the Employee Free Choice act enacted into law, along with single payer universal health care, a fix for the Medicare Prescription drug benefit, a 10 dollar an hour minimum wage, an end to the Iraq war and until that happens you will boycott some Republican campaign contributors.
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We have to hit the friends of the GOP in their wallets. Oh and if you only send your fax, this will fail. You need to get friends to send the fax and have their friends send the free fax and so on.
Thank you!
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Hello
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Congress and the President must
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The President must end the war in
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I will not buy any products from
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Congress and the President must
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I will not go to any Republican
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it's not Mr. Plumber, it's Mr. King of White Trash.
White trash people can be pretty cool...some anyway...
He's merely a redneck shitkicker!
Just cause he unplugs poopers don't mean he is a shitkicker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-29wqgRdN1U
Never knew about that movie and Letterman.
Hey, would you want to buy a monkey?
JTP is a monkey.
But does he, in fact, unplug poopers?
I'm thinkin...not so much...
He *IS* an unplugged pooper. Look at all the crap he's spewed across the country...
http://media.photobucket.com/image/joe%20the%...
shitkicking. A shitkicker acquires his or her name by what comes into contact with the boots on the way to or from the horse. Mr. Plumber has had less contact with a horse than Mr. Bush.
"Mere" shitkickers are the stuff of myth upon which my state's misreputation is built. John Cornyn himself played one in his last campaign ad.
Mr. Plumber is pure and simply a dumbass.
00:14:51
00:14:52
00:14:53
00:14:54
00:14:55...
... only 5 more seconds before this jackass's time is up. Those 15 minutes of fame sure felt like a lifetime in the case of this *sshole.
dumb, dumber, Joe the plumber
He represents the average Blow Job, Reslug, being uneducated, admitting ignorance and plain stupidity. He reminds me of Palin.
that complete lack of knowledge about the given subject, does not seem to even slow them down (never mind stop them) from speaking and voicing their opinions as if somehow were authoritative in the matter at hand.
who's name really is Joe by the way.
There is a national attack on unions from the right. Here in Philadelphia they are attempting to change the city charter to allow PVC piping. This would open the door to cheap, unlicensed, unqualified, and often illegal labor. They've even had the temerity to try to bill it as a "green" product. Nothing could be further from the truth. Don't believe Wertzelbachers lies. And don't believe that any union member is making $70 an hour. I've heard that crap repeated all too often lately to disparage unions. I WISH they made that much !
That $70 an hour union worker myth is only designed to build up populist resentment against unions...Just another example of the faux populism of the GOP, you never hear about the CEO who makes $70 in 15 seconds...because the GOP knows that would resonate even more than the mythical $70 an hour union worker. We should be talking about the $16k an hour CEO...but the GOP knows that they would be betraying their base if they did. On another board, I had a former teacher who belonged to the teacher's union spout that lie over and over again...Of course he still keeps his pension...and refuses to return it...all the while railing against how unions are destroying America.
Did you ever wonder where the Right came up with that number? They took ALL the wages and benefits of ALL UAW employees, working retired and DEAD, and divided it by the current number of working auto workers. Why, that's fair, isn't it? It's like taking your salary & benefits, ADDING YOUR RETIRED PARENTS' SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE COSTS, and figuring that as YOUR income. It reminds me of the old "saw": Figures don't lie, but liars will figure!
He could be Vice President Sarah Palin's Chief of Staff right now....
in 2012 Palin and the shit kicker. Did that kid marry palin knocked up kid.
Did this crowd make him horny too?
Now "joe the plumber" supporters can go back to their original hero and symbol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpHIIE9Lois
Joe the Plumber can only wish he had hair like that
Times up, you fraudulent, answerless, ignorant mother fucker! That was priceless the way those union people let him hang himself.
Methinks his seemingly never ending 15 minutes of fame just ended.
Shouldn't he be referred to as "Joe" the "Plumber," the spokesman for dumbed-down America?
"Joe the Dumber"
"Joe the Dumberer"
Is he now going to claim he is an Ironyworker, too?
He better call Glenn Beck and see if he can come on his show. That's where he belongs. Beck had Michele Bachmann on his show yesterday, just I might add, as I had predicted he would one day last week.
Wouldn't be much of a show. Beck would start crying, Joe would scratch his head in confusion and Bachmann would go running off the set, screaming that the camera crew was out to get her.
... and sent back out with a fresh infusion of GOP talking points.
There isn't enough lipstick to make this plumber into a pig.
Celebrity Apprentice?
$150K in a wardrobe makeover.
But he still would look better than Palin in Lipstick.
...if he doesn't understand the talking points (and he won't), then how can he speak intelligently to them in a freeflowing conversation? Witness the Squatter-In-Chief and his last 8 years of blathering: he never really understood the words that were coming out of his own mouth. He'd throw out the talking point bullshit, then spend the rest of time drooling on his silk tie trying to splutteringly enhance the points he didn't comprehend.
"Joe" here is cut from the same cloth. Oh, but he is gettin' paid, right? That's all this shitbrain cares about. Typical Repug...
This feeble shit-maw couldn't change a washer.
... washer, Joe thinks 'dryer.'
"Washer? I don't even know her."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hojF77xZVHM
The face of the GOP.
...but owned and served!
"I'm not a Democrat OR a Republican."
That may be so on your questionably existent voter reg card, but not on your itinerary.
Schedule.
.
Actually, the dipshit said, 'I'm not about Republicans or Democrats...' He is, of course, full of shit. This I suppose is his way of distancing himself from the toxic label of Republican.
He knows about as much about EFCA as the guy in the chicken suit knows about KFC. Same general concept.
...asked sharper, more insightful questions in two minutes than anyone in the Washington D.C. press core asked President Blood Sipper in eight fucking years. They tore Joe another ass.
Does anyone else get the feeling that "Joe" the "Plumber"'s media career is going to end with some kind of prostitute-related tabloid story?
Male hooker.
Only if Joe is the prostitute.
"Only if Joe is the prostitute"
He already is...
I thought he was a journalist? maybe he and Rove's boy Guckert can put up a website together!
by the goopers?
will be to marry Bristol Palin.
Drip if it's a girl
Flush if it's a boy
I've had to clean up the bathroom after my 3 year old grandson use it. Take it from me, Drip is more accurate for the boy's name.
It says so much about the party when they put people like this guy out to represent them over and over. Is he blackmailing the party or something? It's just hard to believe even the republicans would be this stupid. If Michael Steele wasn't so all about himself, he would yank this guy off the stage and we would never hear about him again.
Seems to me a more fitting name for him might be Joe the Pecker.
Palin / Plumber 2012!
Me no like tough questions. Me just horny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0oALRL7uyY
Yo joe, here's a message for you from your former boss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpL6EIMShO4
Someone dumber than joe and has to do with plumbing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbDiujuv6rQ
Gotta disagree with those who commented above regarding his 15 minutes running out.
To the Know-Nothing party, he's got all the qualifications necessary to run for VP. I'm afraid we'll be seeing a lot more of Plunger Boy.
Sadly...you may be correct.
Nothing sad about it. If I weren't an athiest I'd be praying for a Bible Spice/Plunger Boy ticket.
Bible Spice! I like that!
That would be somethin wouldn't it?
A total trainwreck waiting to happen...
With the state that the GOP is in, Joe is the most qualified to be the VP nomination.
Ladies and germs, I give you the GFP: the grand fictitious party
When real issues are debated, the GFP counters all points with dazzling (or boring/lame) works of fiction.
real issue: GFP rebuttal---
torture: jack bauer and 24
society/economy: ayn rand and atlas shrugged
global warming/science: Michael Crichton and Prey
and now, when it comes to labor issues, the GFP proudly rolls out their fictitious plumber, sam the unlicensed handyman
named Crapper? He's got to be rolling in his grave. Rolling with laughter at Joe the plumber
Calling a toilet a Wertzelbacher would probably sound a little awkward.
Sound like it's what one does in the toilet...
For example...
" Ah excuse me...I'm going to take a wicked Wertzelbacher"
Excuse me, I have to go to the Wertzelbacher and take a Joe.
the sound the damned thing makes when you flush it.
"I pressed the button and...WURZELBACHER!....all my shit went spiraling through the porceline.
LOL!
I like y'alls better.
BUT...they said I chewed my nails too much!
So you became a carpenter instead?
How long will it be until Joe Sixpack has had enough of Mr. Plumber? Betty Winebox has already had enough. She knows that Mr. Plumber cannot bringing home the bacon and is only a stooge. Joe Sixpack thought Mr. Plumber was kind of cool for a while but now Mr. Plumber is showing up where he obviously has no clue. Not that he had a clue anywhere he went but he was kind of a novelty. Not anymore.
Palin/Plumber 2012
I would like to know how much the GOP has paid this guy so far. Is there a public record where we could find out? I'm not sure people who donate to the party would want their money going into this guy's pants.
.
I wouldn't want the cleaning bill!
.
Does he get health insurance or do we have to pay his med bill when they come due and he has no $$$$
...if you can't stand the water get out from under the sink!
would ya?
Joe the plumber plunges into politics and in a flushed state begins to tank
but you could've spelled it Pflushed.
He should've quit while he was a head.
Joe the Welfare King
Joe the Tax cheat
Joe the Plumber (at least in title)
Joe the Foreign War Correspondent
Joe the Horny
Joe the Expert on Not Knowing Much About EFCA
Joe's not quiter! He's going to keep trying till he finds his true calling, whatever it is, so leave Joe Aloooone!
Joe the Pundit?
Just. Leave. Joe the _______. Alone!!!
"Joe. Just. Leave. Us. The _______. Alone!!!"
Fixed it for you.
When's this asshole's 15 minutes finally up?
Someone should start a clock/website counting the seconds until Samuel finally goes back to his real job (cheating on taxes and taking welfare benefits, which is OK for him but not for the rest of us).
All crack / No plumber
I like that!
right wingers snort?
It is for McCain but only during campaign season.
ewwww ...
Oh that's funny.
thanks I'll be here all week ...
All buttcrack, no plumber.
PWND!
Hey Kids!
If you rearrange the letters in EFCA and add an L,
you get a little matter Joe MAY know something about ...
LECFE?
CEFEL?
LACFE?
KORNDOG?
LUNCHPAIL,
FENDEL,
LAPDOG,
ARBORNOUGHT?
DRENDEL?
FISHWIFE?
ARRONDREL?
I give up.
FECAL
Paraphrasing: " I don't care about Republicans or Democrats, just Americans"
Bullshit. You know you like Republicans you liar.
Being apolitical is just dumb.
Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin remind me of the "Know Nothing Party".
Paraphrasing: I don't like politicians, that's why I like all of you, once we get involved, we'll be heard.
Translation: We might not know what the f*ck we're talking about, but at least we'll be heard.
does he like Republicans, but he gets "horny" for them.
You can only prosper as an idiot for so long.
seems to be doing a pretty good job of it.
hounding this guy.
Why are people so obsessed?
He's just a schmuck with an opinion.
joe the "douche bag plummer"
is not licensed, but he sure
is trying to hose everyone.
what a cocksucker a-hole for the gop.
We as Americans have to forget this division which has been done to us.. It is time to "stop" playing the roll of republican and democrat policy which has been played out to divide us instead of attacking the real enemy for the past 15 plus years.
It is time to join forces of those which wish to take of country back.. We have past the eleventh hour and our country has been inflicted with mortal wounds it not healed.
The democrats and the republicans have join together to help create a powerful Global Corporate Empire controlling the wealth , military and power around the world...
For an open and free government there certainly has been a lot of secret policies which are being created..
And they are using words to talk in a circle which really say nothing.. They are putting crooks in charge of crooks to steal our money and country... Their words tell a fairy tale and there is not detail of facts to what their policies are doing and where / who is receiving our money and where it is actually going to...
What is the total amount of our tax welfare Bush & Obama are spending on a credit card for the bail out to corporations and foreign countries... Is it 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 trillion dollars and they are making a big stink about given back (what $150 million to "SOME" Americans which is really our money anyway)... They say there is a sucker born every minute and 3 to suck them in..
Isn't his 15 minutes up?
Gotta love the snide attitude Joe cops after he finds out the questioner is from an online blog.
It's not "all about America" you fatuous clown,it's about cashing in while your "brothers" take the hit you worthless scab scumbag.
...those men probably would have thoroughly whipped Joe's stupid, smart mouth ass...they were clearly fed up and pissed at his imposter bullshit.
Welcome to the world of politics, Joe the Dumber. Guess you're finding out that it's not a game for the weak minded or uninformed, is it?
Take some advice pal. Get your sorry ass out of politics now and help us clean up our national political dialogue. Redneck shitkickers like you are always going to be the marginalized minority, despite how important you think you are.
as any other republican.
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joe the plumber running for congress.
if jean schmidt can do it,
so can joe.
. . . for introducing us to this clown. He may be an idiot but he has provided us with plenty of laughs, free of charge, in recent months.
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