It’s comedy. We’re allowed. We don’t need no stinkin’ facts!

Shit sandwiches for everyone!!

You left out that he’s now been unmasked as a tax evader!

OK, so who’s opening the CafePress store on THIS meme?

I heard that Joe the Plumber is Al Wurzelbachers’ number two…

There may, in fact, be more Wurzelbachers in the United States than there are Taliban in Afghanistan.

You didn’t just hit the nail on the head, you drove the goddamn nailgun into the wall and now we have to go get another. Good going, Belisarius.

Like, “Weinerschnitzel.”

It’s the equivalent of Bristol Palin, on the surreal white-by-astounding-collective-ignorance wedding her mother seems to want to force her to have the week before the election, announcing that she can’t do it – that she’s fallen in love with a real man who satisfies her body, mind, and soul in a way that trout-fucker never could, and a shrill air horn just outside the threshhold draws attention to Bill Ayers on a Vespa.

Which, I am told, is trading at $70 on intrade as of today.

What’s WRONG with you people??!!

As to the $250K thing, I’d like to see one single example of someone who turned down a pay raise or a business opportunity because the amount of extra taxes actually lowered their net income. WTF?

Reagan likes to claim he did, and to this day Republicans weep big, fat tears about him being taxed so much on his sixth 1960s million.

I think the Democrats are as complicit as the Republicans in this. Taxes are a good thing – they’re onerous sometimes, but you’re buying a service along with everyone else. You’re building schools, roads, and homes, helping people through rough times, keeping the country strong and keeping its future bright. And yet we’ve been encouraged by our rat-race culture to treat putting a dollar into the machine and not immediately getting a blowjob as an affront.

The Democrats and Republicans offer tax ‘relief’ to the poor and rich – and call them ‘middle class’. This is particularly perfidious in the case of the actual middle class, because those taxes are the only regular opportunity someone making $30,000 in an office is going to get to change things seriously for the better. And ultimately, the difference is a few hundred bucks for you and millions of dollars for society.

If people talked about ‘relief’ from family or society or, God forbid, church the way they did about taxes, how much you want to bet Joe would all of a sudden get suspicious? That is, if he weren’t a Republican crank trying to gotcha a candidate with a stupid question about something meaningless.

Alas, that’s a little more dull than it could have been.

To give full credit, as it is due, it was right wing blogger Martin Eisenstein who uncovered his family history.

Apparently, his cousin is Keating’s son-in-law.

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J— said,

October 16, 2008 at 18:51

This is a bit rich.

Heh, the students have become the masters!

Some things get better with age.

I doubt they’re much worried. It’s a tiring, uncomfortable and (often quite literally) shitty job. Most of us could do most of our own plumbing repairs. Most of us really don’t want to.