As Joe the Plumber Goes, so Goes the GOP Congress

[Stingo]

Who should the Republicans turn to for advice on the economic stimulus plan? These House and Senate Republicans are quite used to supporting the incompetence of the Bush Administration, so they've decided to bring in an unlicensed plumber and tax cheat, Joe Wirzelbacher, to advise them on the economy. I kid you not.

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2009/02/03/as-joe-the-plumber-goes-so-goes-the-gop-house

[Atman]

1. "An unlicensed plumber and a tax cheat." Sing it, brother!

That's all they've got left. And the Wasillabillies.

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[rucky]

2. water seeks its own level

[DrDan]

3. c'mon -he is a journalist - one with international credentials

has more expertise than most of the GOP members of congress

[Stingo]

7. That is very true.

Sad commentary, but it has been true for a while.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Now he's Joe the Economist?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

And :rofl: even harder at the dumbass Republicans who keep giving this ignorant blowhard yet another fifteen minutes of fame.

[Stingo]

22. This is a judgement problem

As were all of the Republican problems of the last eight years. We're the ones who pay for those poor judgements.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. You just can't make this shit up

Too funny.

[tanyev]

6. Oh, I thought they were all going to Gaza.

Pity.

[Stingo]

9. Let Joe the Plumber

be Joe the unlicensed Plumber again. That's all I ask.

[RJ Connors]

8. They are also dead convinced that they need to run Sarah Palin in 2012

That pretty much seals 8 years for President Obama (Gee, I really like using that title and I absolutely enjoy posting it on conservative websites) barring a just massive, colossal, fuck up.

[Stingo]

11. Yes, I am out to encourage

the GOP in running Sarah Palin. Indeed, if they were to wander forty years in the wilderness, I'd be OK with that.

[FormerDittoHead]

10. As the Plumber's saying goes: Shit seeks its own level. n/t

[Stingo]

12. You are maligning shit

How dare you, sir!

[zbdent]

13. wait ... tax cheat?

hell, he can't be approved by the Senate, then ... oh, wait ... he's an "independent" ReRushican ... never mind ...

[patrice]

14. It's the opposite of everything they preach about deregulation & "free market".

As usual Republicans don't even understand their own dogma.

We're supposed to kill government, deregulate, and let markets run wild BECAUSE this will cause the cream to rise to the top, so we'll get the best everything.

And then they put a lying, mediocre, ignorant, pudgy, phony named Sam, not Joe, up as a model of what we should aspire to.

:crazy:

[Stingo]

16. You have to have brains

to have cognitive dissonance. GOP? Not so much.

[patrice]

17. Good point. It isn't that some degree of inconsistency is un-acceptable.

It's that first you have to be honest enough to recognize and admit it.

And second you have to be smart enough to identify what inconsistencies are valid and what inconsistencies are LIES.

[Stingo]

18. With the lying liars

They may have lost some ab ility to tell the difference on that score.

[patrice]

19. And, on the average, too many people are too much of the mind that "All answers are right."

"It just depends upon the Power available to your point of view. So go where the Power is."

[Stingo]

20. Republicans in particular

are only about power. Winning is their core value. That impedes both morals and cognitive competence.

[patrice]

21. For all of their blather about "values" they, on the average, are ALL about dog-eat-dog culture. nt

[LynnTheDem]

15. Ask not "how low can the Republic Party go".

:rofl: