Joe the Plumber Hits the Capitol to Meet With GOPers
Your eyes do not deceive you -- that was indeed Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. Joe the Plumber, visiting the Capitol yesterday in coat and tie (tie and leather jacket, to be more exact).
Joe told reporters that he had met with Republican aides, ostensibly to offer his astute political messaging advice, but that no lawmakers were present for his visit.
When asked whether he had plans to see old pal Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Joe was non-committal. And when asked, wholly in jest, whether he planned to lay any pipe during his day in D.C., Joe was downright incensed. A moment of awkward silence followed the question. "All the puns have been made," Joe warned the reporter who queried him.
I don't know, Joe ... sometimes the puns deserve to be made again.
Josh
Matt
Eric
Palin-Wurzelbacher in 2012. A dream ticket if ever there was one.
February 4, 2009 10:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Jeb Bush - Secretary of State
February 4, 2009 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
He'll run for a House seat in 2010, and he'll probably win. Though he doesn't seem too bright and will probably say some ridiculous things on the campaign trail but it will probably play well in his district. I mean Bachmann was re-elected.
February 4, 2009 10:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Boy...talk about the blind, deaf and dumb (stupid) leading the blind, deaf and dumb. Kind of like the Three Stooges going to Goofy for help.
C
February 4, 2009 10:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
What do you mean by that??? ;-)
February 4, 2009 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is a sign of Republican complete disconnect with reality to "bring in" this plumber as if he was brilliant and thus, has any answers for the mess that Bush left. Remember, McCain tried using this inane person in his campaign and all it did was turn off moderate Republicans like me. My response to the last campaign was to change my registration to Democrat and it gets more and more confirmation as I watch Republicans implode. Amazing that they are so clueless. But I guess Joe could be a bit of comic relief. I do hope they broadcast The Plumber's speech because it will be fodder for the humorists for the next year.
Where oh where has the Grand Old Party gone???
February 4, 2009 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Truer words were never spoken. Amazing that Republicans would make a deity out of this guy who is such an abject failure and then try to sell him as a knowledgeable person up on what the country needs to get out of the 8 year mess that Bush made. Where were the Republicans when the country needed them to hogtie their dear leader, the bumbler, G. W. Bush. Out to lunch no doubt or at a mutual admiration society meeting extolling the failure of their party. How sad that the Grand Old Party has sunk to this, treating an unlicensed plumber as if he had a message from the gods. So Republicanesque (is this even a word?). Dick Cheney and the plumber all on the same day spouting platitudes. Sad, sad.
February 4, 2009 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Minority toilet stopped up?
February 4, 2009 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Its a joke, right? Tell me it's just a joke.
February 4, 2009 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Since he doesn't have a license, wouldn't he just be a "plumber's helper"?
February 4, 2009 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Welcome to Bizzarro World!
February 4, 2009 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Republicans needed someone to be the "smartest guy in the room!" Just like Skilling!
February 4, 2009 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
His stimulus includes McStain and Falin blow-torching his pipe.
February 4, 2009 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Decline of Civilization, Chapter 99. Like Caligula's horse being a senator.
I still think this fucker is "Jeff Gannon." Ever see them in the same room at the same time?
This isn't news. It's "Talon News."
February 4, 2009 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's one that deserves repeating:
Wurzelbacker like you doing in a place like this?
February 4, 2009 10:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is truly a very disturbing story... Where are we as a nation going? We have stories like this with an absolutely unbelievable person like Joe Wurzelbacher the non-plumber still in the news media and republican legislative picture; we have Ingram (sp) on the Today Show this morning making outlandish statements about her knowledge of what the American public wants in the economy with light weight high paid Mat Lauer (sp) not requiring her to present any facts to support her opinion; We have not one republican (even moderate Republicans) supporting the the economic package voted on in the house; and we have Dick Cheney making negative statements about the Obama administration.
Obama's challenge to bring the nation together before we completely self distruct is truely daunting!
Denis
February 4, 2009 10:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay okay....
#1) So let's get this straight. The GOP is flying in a unemployed tax-evader to advise them on how to stimulate the economy?
#2) The same GOP that had a problem with Daschle and Geithner on the failure to pay taxes all of a sudden gets convenient amnesia
when its Crazy Joe?
Go sell stupid somewhere else.
February 4, 2009 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Definitely agree with you on that one, why go for nobel-prize winning economists when you can ask a figure head, flash in the pan, unemployed, joke of a person what to do with the economy and stimulus. It's a complete joke.
February 4, 2009 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
But you know,...With the crap that comes out of that Republican clap trap, maybe they need a plumber!
February 4, 2009 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
With Steele in charge of the RNC and saying their was nothing wrong with the party, with the rank and file wanting the party to be more like Sarah Palin, and with Joe the Plumber giving much sought after advice to the party, what could possibly be better. I dub this little trifecta of Republican 'leadership': Mother, Jugs & Speed.
February 4, 2009 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nice! I think "Joe" is a bit too tall to play the Harvey Keitel part, but Steele as Bill Cosby and Palin as Raquel Welch works great! *Shudder*
February 4, 2009 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's just the thing about plumbers. You wait around for them all day -- to fix a leak or open a drain -- and instead they're off in D.C. giving advice to Republicans.
February 4, 2009 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ok I think you are talking about Sam the Liar, because this guys name isn't Joe nor is he a licensed plumber.
February 4, 2009 11:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah yes, but we know how the GOP works. They get the stupid, ignorant person's opinion, their baseless ideas about govenment, then the GOP finds ways to market skewed, twisted realities through Rush Limbaugh talk radio and Faux news.
The GOP is having a hard time selling their "trickle down" theories and "socialism" tags. It seems that even their blow hard propagandist, Rush Limbaugh doesn’t have any fresh ideas of late, so I can see why they want to pick Joe's empty little mind, for every stupid nugget they can mined, manipulate and capitalize on.
Sen. Jon Kyl was rammed the "more Tax Cuts" in the stimulus bill yesterday, but it's a hard sell because we know it's only for his rich campaign contributors, and then we see this:
WHAT Congress was furious? Was it only the Republican congress?
Rush has his work cut out for him, and that is why the GOP needs Joe, he is the perfect, stupid man, the guy who doesn't even have a plumber's license and doesn't even know why he needs a contractors license. Laws and contractor's license are stupid things, just ask Joe.
Joe is the quientasencual Republican voter and it's why Republican congress don't meet with him, nor would they want too, only the consultants will meet with Joe, to find new Republican campaigns via whatever symbolism, and con words they can use to continue to demonize Democrats and steal money from average Americans to feed the greed on Wall Street.
February 4, 2009 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love Joe the Plumber! I want Joe to be the public face of the GOP. He's such a dull tool he's the perfect representative of the busted machine that is the Republican Party.
Can we take up a collection to keep him employed? He could go on talk shows, write editorials, serve on boards and represent the GOP wherever he will be most visible.
Please say we can!
February 4, 2009 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, for God's sake.
February 4, 2009 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe's wisest career move would be to get a plumbing license.
February 4, 2009 12:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
opps, that should be "quintessential", I thought I had corrected gross misspelling, but I guess not.
February 4, 2009 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Could he look *more* like a Nazi commandant of the North African campaign in that outfit? Maybe his face will melt off in the last reel when they open up the Ark...
February 4, 2009 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I swear -- the next time I see this guy's face on the front page of TPM, I will swear off reading this blog forever. And I've been a daily reader for about 5 years.
He's not relevant. At all. Stop giving him attention, TPM. Stop it.
February 4, 2009 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Absolutly & totally agree! I,ve been here since the very beginning. TPM has always been one of the very best, but lately it has left a lot to be desired. Many really good people are no longer contributing.
February 4, 2009 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like the GOPers found themselves a tar baby of their own.
February 4, 2009 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink